QUES: Q: What mountains serve as a barrier to keep New York City comparatively warmer in the winter?
A: Winters are cold and damp, and prevailing wind patterns that blow offshore minimize the moderating effects of the Atlantic Ocean; yet the Atlantic and the partial shielding from colder air by the Appalachians keep the city warmer in the winter than inland North American cities at similar or lesser latitudes such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis.
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QUES: Q: Why were the clean slate decrees useful to the rulers of Sumer?
A: According to Hudson, the purpose of these decrees was to prevent debts mounting to a degree that they threatened fighting force which could happen if peasants lost the subsistence land or became bondservants due to the inability to repay the debt.
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QUES: Q: On what day did the CRTC agree to allow CBCs broadcasting transmitters to remain active for another year?
A: Before that deadline, CBC's licence renewal process would take place and CBC's digital transition plans would be examined as part of that process.
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QUES: Q: Who, acting as registrar, informed North Korea that withdrawal was deliberately precluded by the original signatories of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?
A: When North Korea declared its intention to do this the Secretary-General of the United Nations, acting as registrar, said that original signatories of the ICCPR had not overlooked the possibility of explicitly providing for withdrawal, but rather had deliberately intended not to provide for it.
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