The Geography of the United States in the Year 2000

1970 ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. L. Berry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Year 2000

The Under-Enrollment of HIV-infected Foster Children in Clinical Trials and Protocols and the Need for Corrective State Action

1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-249
Author(s):  
Briar McNutt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
State Action ◽  
Pediatric Aids ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
Year 2000

The incidence of HIV infection and AIDS in children has grown at an alarming rate. Approximately one million children worldwide have HIV infection. By the year 2000, an estimated ten million children will suffer from the disease. Currently, the United States has a population of an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 HIV-infected children. As of June 30, 1993, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 4,710 known AIDS cases in children twelve years-old and younger. At that point, New York City reported 1,124 pediatric AIDS cases which represented twenty-four percent of all cases in the United States.With the rising number of HIV-infected children, the medical community in the United States has begun to search for HIV-and AIDS-related treatments particularized for children. In addition to establishing guidelines for HIV-infected children's frequent check-ups and timely immunizations, the medical community has initiated research studies involving HIV-infected children.

Dispatches from Benghazi

PMLA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 264-270
Author(s):  
Khaled Mattawa
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The City

Since the year 2000 i have spent most of my summers in benghazi, libya, the city of my birth and childhood. I have been able to return for the past six years, after an absence of twenty-one. At first I anticipated disorientation. The two decades that I'd lived in the United States saw extreme forms of oppression in Libya, as well as hostility between Libya and the West, which by 2003 was coming to an end. Yet little surprised me about my city when I returned. I had expected the buildings to appear smaller than I'd remembered, the streets to seem shorter and narrower, and, given how the Qaddafi regime had mismanaged the country, everything to be shabbier.

The Rapture of Politics: The Christian Right as the United States Approaches the Year 2000.

Social Forces ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 1496
Author(s):  
Michael Lienesch ◽  
Steve Bruce ◽  
Peter Kivisto ◽  
William H. Swatos Jr.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
The United States ◽  
Year 2000

scholarly journals Cjenovni balon na tržištu nekretnina u Republici Hrvatskoj

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-88
Author(s):  
Josipa Mustać
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Significant Drop ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Price ◽  
Real Estate Prices ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
The City

The market balloons are fast-growing price phenomena, followed by their dramatic drop. In some parts of Croatia - the coastline and in the city of Zagreb, real estate prices have been growing drastically, considering the period from the year 2000. The global economic crisis occurred in the United States came 2008 due to the inflation of real estate prices, which also transferred to the Croatian economy due to the flooding effect from one market to another. This paper examines whether the same case is happening in Croatia today, namely whether the real estate price increase in Croatia was justified or they are balloons that will suddenly break. Real estate prices in Croatia are growing due to several factors, such as increased real estate demand for tourist rental, housing loans subsidies for young people and increased real estate demand by foreigners. If there is a significant drop in tourist activity in Croatia, real estate prices could fall dramatically.

The Criminalization of Homosexuality in Popular Cinema

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek Dalton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Sexual Deviance ◽  
Popular Cinema ◽  
Crime Films ◽  
Crime Film ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Year 2000

In the early 1940s, films started to appear where homosexual characters were represented as inherently criminal. These early representations were often subtle or implicit because various production codes operating in the United States and United Kingdom forbade explicit depictions or naming of homosexuality. During the 1940s, homosexuality was associated with disease and sexual deviance. This ensured that these early depictions were unflattering. Gradually, as time progressed and homosexuality became a less taboo topic, representations of homosexual criminality became less coded and more explicit. Filmmakers became bolder in their treatment of the theme of homosexuality and crime. The most fascinating discovery is that, when it comes to popular culture and the cinema, murder is the crime that is typically associated with homosexuality. However, murder has been a mainstay of crime film plots and so it is not surprising that homicide features in films linked to crime and homosexuality. By the year 2000, it is apparent that the cinematic treatment of homosexuality and crime had evolved to become quite sophisticated. Whereas earlier films reviled their homosexual characters such that they attracted little empathy from the audience, these later films have sought to engender a greater tolerance and sympathy for the homosexual killers they depict. Finally, it is important to note that films that depict homosexuals as killers are not an expression of homophobic sentient per se. Crime films have long situated killing as an essential aspect of their plots, and so films that feature homosexuals as murderers are simply a subset of this most popular cinematic genre.

The Filmed Entertainment Industry in the United States: Economic Trends in the Late 1980s

1986 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16
Author(s):  
Thomas Guback
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Entertainment Industry ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Earning Power ◽  
External Forces ◽  
Year 2000

No period in the economic revolution of the American filmed entertainment business has been without its difficulties and volatility. But in the late 1980s, the industry and the companies in it are faced with an exceptionally complex array of problems that will have an impact on the business through to the year 2000. Because this business is global, repercussions will be felt overseas. Uncertain currents and contradictory trends are evident, and they are due as much to the industry's own internal dynamics as to external forces over which companies have somewhat less control. It seems that problems have multiplied as the mass media fields have become increasingly integrated, and as the various sectors have called upon new technology to augment their earning power.

Gentrification, Geography, and the Declining Enrollment of Neighborhood Schools

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis A. Pearman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Urban Schools ◽  
The United States ◽  
Neighborhood Schools ◽  
Urban Schooling ◽  
Considerable Heterogeneity ◽  
Declining Enrollment ◽  
New Statistics ◽  
Year 2000

This study examines patterns and relations between gentrification and urban schooling across U.S. cities using longitudinal data from 2000 to 2014. The first section presents new statistics on the incidence and distribution of gentrification occurring around urban schools in the United States as a whole. Of the roughly 20% of urban schools located in divested neighborhoods in the year 2000, roughly one in five experienced gentrification in their surrounding neighborhood by 2014. However, there exists considerable heterogeneity in the prevalence of gentrification across U.S. cities, with exposure rates ranging from zero in some cities to over 50% in others. The second section finds evidence that gentrification is associated with declining enrollment at neighborhood schools, especially when gentrifiers are White.

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