The United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines as territories.
The diminion of new england in america(1686-89) was an administrative union of english colonies covering new england and the mid-atlantic colinies (Except for colony of pennsylvania.
One problem for the social security system is that there's more and more older people and fewer young people, so if they massively retire, there won't be enough workers to keep the social security system working because not enough taxes will be paid. A possible solution can be an increase the the obligatory retirement age. This would mean that people would work longer before retiring so they would use less social security money.
It was decided by a decision of the Supreme Court.
However, the court did not decide who won, but it decided to stop the manual re-count of votes in Florida, as it was deemed unconstitutional.
After the decision of the Supreme court, the outcome was decided by the electoral votes who were in favour of George Bush.
