Political systems; General

Agencies that report to the President in the same manner as departments, even though they are not part of any cabinet department.

Accounting; Tax

A relationship between a principal and an agent who acts on behalf of the principal in a transaction with a third party

Political systems; General

Agreements made by the President in the conduct of foreign affairs, that, unlike treaties, do not require Senate approval.

Banking; 

Political systems; General

The President, the Vice President, and the officials who run the executive departments of the government. (At times, other officials are included in the cabinet.)

Political systems; General

An economic system of free enterprise with private ownership of the means of production.

Literature; General

System of graded and measurable categories and intervals in which individual subjects can be distributed around a norm. For example, western medicine and judiciary systems have ...

Literature; General

Originally a French movement, influenced by Surrealist painting, that uses surprising images and transitions to play off of formal expectations and depict the unconscious rather ...

Literature; General

Postwar movement skeptical of absolutes and embracing diversity, irony, and word play.

Literature; General

Poetry that, often brutally, exposes the self as part of an aesthetic of the beauty and power of human frailty.