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In recent years, American usage has eroded the European system, particularly in Britain and to a lesser extent in other countries.
Americans are not likely to adopt the European nomenclature, and Europeans will always regard the Americansystem as an imposition.
The googol equals 10 duotrigintillion in the Americansystem, 10 sexdecilliard in the European system, and 10 triacontatrillion in the proposed Greek-based system.
American political scientists developed the idea of congressional stagnation in the 1970s to explain a growing trend by which incumbents keep winning seats.
Americans charged that the presidency had exceeded its limits during the wars on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and evident in the Watergate scandal that brought Richard Nixon down.
Aided and abetted by a Republican Congress and the post 9/11 paranoia of Americans, the Bush imperial presidency has passed laws that violate the right of privacy of Americans, pursued policies that support torture and imprisonment of people merely suspected to be terrorists without charge or trial and often based on racial and religious profiling.
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