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John Harold Williamson (June 7, 1937 – April 11, 2021) was a British-born economist who coined the term Washington Consensus. He served as a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics from 1981 until his retirement in 2012. During that time, he was the project director for the United Nations High-Level Panel on Financing for Development in 2001. [1] He was also on ...
Jackson-Reed High School (formerly known as Woodrow Wilson High School) is a public high school in Washington, DC. It serves grades 9 through 12 as part of the District of Columbia Public Schools. The school sits in the Tenleytown neighborhood, at the intersection of Chesapeake Street and Nebraska Avenue, NW. Although it primarily serves students in Washington's Ward 3, nearly 30% of the ...
A very long railway station sign for a very long name only pronounceable by Welsh people. A Bay State fire department's patch, with the longest place name in the United States. This page is meant for Wikipedians to list articles about places with unusual names.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Pennsylvania was held on November 2, 2010, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Pennsylvania. Incumbent U.S. senator Arlen Specter ran for reelection to a sixth term but lost in the Democratic primary to U.S. representative Joe Sestak. [1] Republican nominee Pat Toomey won the general election over Sestak. Toomey had ...
Map of Washington, D.C. 's streetcar lines Streetcars in Washington, D.C. transported people across the city and region from 1862 until 1962. The first streetcars in Washington, D.C., were horse-drawn and carried people short distances on flat terrain. After brief experiments with cable cars, the late-19th-century introduction of electric streetcars opened development of the hilly terrain ...
On February 9, 2012, it was announced that the five largest mortgage servicers (Ally Financial, Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, and Wells Fargo) agreed to a settlement with the US Federal Government and 49 states over improper foreclosure practices in the 2010 United States foreclosure crisis, including "robo-signing" (having ...
GEICO, headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, primarily offers private passenger automobile insurance marketed directly to individual consumers in the United States. [55] The company is known for its advertising characters including a gecko and the GEICO Cavemen. C-17 Globemaster III full flight simulator at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam
Chevy Chase (/ ˈtʃɛviː tʃeɪs /) is the colloquial name of an area that includes a town, several incorporated villages, and an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland; and one adjoining neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C.