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funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers llp. (dramatic music) - [narrator] world history is marked by the rise and fall of empires. some remembered as periods of stability and progress, others for turmoil and war. - [man] this was the great fire in the city of london. (dramatic music) - [narrator] eras when the world was free of great power conflict stand out. pax romana, when the roman empire extended through much of europe. or pax britannica, when the sun never set on the british empire. - the original pax is pax romana, the roman empire and the peace that rome spread. pax britannica, in the 19th century, really describes the british led world order that was underwritten essentially by the royal navy. - at particular points in history there's been one unusually strong power, and that power has made many of the rules for what passes for an international world system. - [narrator] pax americana was born out of the preponderance of power the us enjoyed in the aftermath of the second world war. - dean acheson, truman's security of

funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers llp. (mournful russian music) (applause) the world changed in 1991 when the soviet flag was lowered for the last time over the kremlin. in its place was raised the flag of russia and what many hoped would symbolize a new era of freedom and western-style democracy. - by the fall of 1991, russia was moving towards independence in agreement with other soviet republics. the soviet union was about to be dismantled. - [polyakova] people including myself who lived in the soviet union at the time didn't see it coming. people were ready for a change. they wanted western values. they wanted democracy. (epic russian music) - [yelchenko] there was a lot of hope that the new russia which also became an independent state, like every other former republic, would change. that they would become a country with normalcy, with the human rights and democracy. - [kara-murza] a new era began. an era when we had genuine freedom of the media in russia. when elections actually mattered and when the outcome of the e

funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. - [narrator] afghanistan sits at the crossroads of the middle east, russia, and south asia. for centuries it has been a focal point of both trade and war. - afghans are very proud people, and because of our strategic location, we have been resisting the super powers. we have fought ghengis khan, tamerlane, alexander the great, the british, the soviet union. so really the idea of accepting the dominance of another country, is not in the gene of the afghans. - afghanistan has been referred to as the graveyard of empires because it's a very rugged, dry generally, typography. neither the russians, nor the british, nor the americans, have been able to, for a significant period of time, subdue afghanistan. and, it's not that you can't do it, it's what costs are you willing to incur. - [narrator] the costs were too high for the soviet union when various ethnic groups united as the mujahideen to drive them out of afghanistan in the 1980's. - the mujahideen, during the afghan war, were generally engaged in a war of liberat

funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. (soft music) - [narrator] the 1960's in latin america was an era of political revolutions. the reverberations of which are still felt today. - latin america was really defined, the 1960's by the cuban revolution. there was a greater push for independence, sovereignty, autonomy from the united states. - it was a region where some of the battles between capitalism and communism, between democracy and authoritarianism, played out with the greatest drama. it was an era of military coups everywhere from central america down through brazil and argentina. - there were movements not just in latin america, but in other parts of the world in the 60's and 70's to bring more left progressive government into power and in reaction to that, military dictatorships took hold in much of the southern cone and brazil. - [narrator] inspired and at times supported by cuba, a half dozen nations saw political revolutions in the 1960's alone. - this is a time of communism versus anti-communism and we saw a wa

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please welcome, the 108th mayor founder and ceo of bloomberg llp, and someone who understands baltimore's charm, michael bloomberg. [cheers and applause] ♪ man i'm a soul soul man ♪a mr. bloomberg: happy birthday. we share a birthday. that is valentine's day. they say that is unique. but if you think about it, it's not that unique. to a greatlcome event. i have always been a big fan of what goldman sachs is trying to do here. i do remember trying to start a small business. it is a little bit bigger. something like 20,000 people. but i can tell you the best were for 80 company for me at the beginning when you did everything. when you get there early and i had to put the coffee on salon people get there they could sit ton at their desk and get work. sleeping afterwards. we had a small fish tank. it became a symbol of what we do and all of these businesses. i would also like to thank lloyd blankfein and catherine and john. they are the ones who really put this together and they deserve a big round of applause. [applause] when i started the business, it was, and most of you in the room will n

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with me is miriam gonzalez, an expert on european trade law at dechert llp.ining us. sally running through the details on what strikes me about this is about trying to decide which investments are welcomed and which are not and thatis are welcomed and which are not and that is the difficult thing, isn't it? some industries will say, "we need access to this intellectual property and technology", but then the government might say, "yes, but it's a crucial industry". how do you decide what is important? maybe but there are no new things in this proposal, the eu members, including the uk, by the way, carry on these reviews significant foreign investment in certain sectors like nuclear energy, cyber security, financial services. this is something countries have been doing for a long time. it is done outside the eu regularly, the us have a particular mechanism and in australia, likewise, and in canada, they have investment reviews. these things have been happening for a long time. all the eu is doing is two things, one, to ensure there is more coordination and tran

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just a place that had music one night and didn't know about the process and i informed them of the llp. hope they're going to apply. they do things infrequently. and these are sort of involved ongoing operator neighbor communications that have just surfaced, bubbled up into my line of sight based on neighbors feeling like maybe the communication wasn't up to their liking, maybe communication sort of stalled and they reached out for me to contact the operator and get conversations going, in both cases i think that's happened and i'm trying to keep an eye on it and make sure the neighbors feel they have a voice and the operators are motivated to make progress. any questions? >> i have a question about the church services, i assume are actual church services and not a location called church services. >> correct. >> to what extent does the entertainment commission have oversight over church services? >> not much. we usually consult with the district in question and work with them. what i am sometimes depending on the availability able to do is sort of be the eyes in the field and document

burlingause growth, llp. logan, owner of lms pharmacy. we appreciate each of you being here today. we are grateful for your forbearance on what has been a long afternoon. you are recognized for five minutes to give your opening statement, mr. fowler. chief? fowler: thank you, chairman, ranking member, distinguished members of the committee on the energy and commerce. i'm here to make an effort to paint a picture of a community that has been ravaged by synthetic drug abuse. beginning in 2013, the syracuse police department is bonded to the increase in use and says that subsequent overdose of synthetic marijuana, known as spike. the police department implemented various means of tracking the problem, in addition to our law enforcement efforts. it in 2015, the syracuse police department saw its largest number of overdoses from the use of synthetic marijuana. the largest number of overall causes for services related to , with theerdoses largest number of arrests related to this substance. while the department took steps to get these drugs off the streets, new chemical formations to bek