Across
- 3. the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
- 4. an order of a government prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports.
- 6. The condition that exists when the value of what a country imports exceeds the value of what it exports; also called an unfavorable balance of trade.
- 9. warming an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
- 10. used or designed to combat terrorism
- 11. to remove government regulatory controls from (an industry, a commodity, etc.): to deregulate the trucking industry; to deregulate oil prices.
- 12. diplomatic negotiations carried out by a mediator who travels back and forth between the negotiating parties.
- 18. the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.
- 20. the power of the executive to veto particular items of a bill without having to veto the entire bill.
- 22. the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
- 23. a vast computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide
- 24. an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
- 25. the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
- 28. a relaxing of tension, especially between nations, as by negotiations or agreements.
- 30. a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
- 31. employed at a job that does not fully use one's skills or abilities.
- 32. to accuse (a public official) before an appropriate tribunal of misconduct in office.
Down
- 1. the beliefs held by those in this movement.
- 2. Government debt is the debt owed by a central government.
- 5. a distribution and opposition of forces among nations such that no single nation is strong enough to assert its will or dominate all the others.
- 7. the declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities: initiated under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
- 8. gross national product excluding payments on foreign investments.
- 13. holding an indicated position, role, office, etc., currently: the incumbent officers of the club.
- 14. a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
- 15. a rigid policy of segregation of the nonwhite population.
- 16. the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986.
- 17. fundamental rights, especially those believed to belong to an individual and in whose exercise a government may not interfere, as the rights to speak, associate, work, etc.
- 19. the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
- 21. a form of oxygen, O 3
- 26. the act of impeaching.
- 27. the common or ordinary people, especially as contrasted with the leadership or elite of a political party, social organization, etc.; the rank and file.
- 29. the state of being or becoming bankrupt.