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Agency for International Development

(Encyclopedia)Agency for International Development (AID), federal agency created (Sept., 1961) to consolidate U.S. nonmilitary foreign aid programs. Originally an agency in the State Department, it has been a compo...

Strategic Defense Initiative

(Encyclopedia)Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), former U.S. government program responsible for research and development of a space-based system to defend the nation from attack by strategic ballistic missiles (se...

EU (European Union)

(Encyclopedia)EU: see European Union.

European Central Bank

(Encyclopedia)European Central Bank: see under European Monetary System. ...

European corn borer

(Encyclopedia)European corn borer: see corn borer. ...

European Currency Unit

(Encyclopedia)European Currency Unit: see European Monetary System. ...

European Economic Area

(Encyclopedia)European Economic Area: see European Free Trade Association; European Union. ...

European Economic Community

(Encyclopedia)European Economic Community (EEC), organization established (1958) by a treaty signed in 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany (now Germany); it was known infor...

European Investment Bank

(Encyclopedia)European Investment Bank, nonprofit bank created in 1958 by the six founding countries of the European Economic Community (now part of the European Union [EU]). The bank makes or guarantees loans to E...

European Monetary Agreement

(Encyclopedia)European Monetary Agreement (EMA), international governmental facility (1958–72) for the settlement of balance of payments accounts between member states. The EMA, which was administered by the Orga...