alliance
N. a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations: a defensive alliance between Australia and New Zealand | divisions within the alliance.
Andrew Carnegie
(1835–1919)British-born US industrialist and philanthropist who used his personal fortune, derived largely from the steel industry, to finance a variety of charitable institutions.Carnegie was born ...
Henry Cabot Lodge
(1850–1924)US statesman and Republican senator (1893–1924).Lodge was born into a wealthy family in Boston and graduated from Harvard in 1874 with a degree in law. Admitted to the bar in 1876, he ...
idealism
[Th]The theoretical position that phenomena and events exist only in so far as they are perceived as ideas. The idealist believes that thoughts are prior to actions, and that the mental or cognitive ...
Japan
Japan had an enviable record for growth and prosperity, but its economic and political frailties have been exposedThough the Japanese archipelago has more than 1,000 islands, most of the territory ...
Romain Rolland
(1866–1944)French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.Born at Clamecy, Mièvre, into a well-established middle-class family, Rolland studied at the ...
Tanzania
Tanzania is politically stable, but development is slow and tarnished by corruptionMainland Tanzania has a narrow flat coastal plain which rises to the vast plateau that makes up most of the country. ...
United States of America
(USA)The world's fourth largest country, comprising the central belt of North America together with Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and many small Pacific Ocean islands. Mainland USA is bounded by ...
