The National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the US has been a recession since December 2007, making official what most Americans have already believed about the state of the economy.
°It's official: The US was in a recession in December 2007 :D
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Common Sense<span> (pamphlet) </span>Common Sense<span> is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
To get down to the purpose though, Thomas Paine was telling the American colonists to rebel against the British monarchy and proclaim their independence. It was to encourage confused colonists to come and resolve into which side they should be on. These sides were the loyalists (Britain), and the rebels (Americans). </span>
I believe the word you are looking for is reparation.
The postwar Germany was forced to pay the victorious countries after World War I reparation to help with repairs, etc.
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