<span>Recovery from the 2008-2009 recession was agonizingly slow due to the following factors:
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1. The recession had an impact on most of the industrialized West, not only the United States. As the recession spread to Europe, the United States's biggest market, it had a 360 degree impact on America's exports as well.
2. The US was spending a lot on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. While this was theoretically supporting millions of jobs in the war industry, for the average person, there was no benefit. Billions that could have been used to help people, were used elsewhere.
3. Rising debt was also a problem. The recession opened up the hidden truth behind America's prosperity, the debt problem. Most people and institutions were spending war more than what they had and when the debt started to mount up, there was very little flexibility left.
4. We also have to admit that the response for the recession was too late. Firstly, the government should not have let a recession happen. However, once it did, they waited for Lehman brothers to completely fail before taking concrete actions.
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Pollution caused the environment to become more darkly colored, so moths were selected to be blacks and greys. Before pollution they were white and lighter colors. <span />
Atom is the basic element of all living things because it's small. It is the smallest constituent unit of matter which has the properties of a chemical element. They are very small. Sizes are about 100 or 100, 000 fm. They are unstable. They are composed of a nucleus and electrons.
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Running water is the leading cause of soil erosion, because water is abundant and has a lot of power. Wind is also a leading cause of soil erosion because wind can pick up soil and blow it far away. Activities that remove vegetation, disturb the ground, or allow the ground to dry are activities that increase erosion.
