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land mine an explosive mine laid on or just under the surface of the ground.... Read more
Government Ownership Government Ownership
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. According to American economic and political ideology, government is supposed to keep its distance from the private sector, and on the whole it does. The government owns much less in the United States than in Europe, where many countries have taken over... Read more
Toxic Waste Toxic Waste
Toxic Waste LAWRENCE SUMMERS’S MEMO BASEL CONVENTION AND BASEL BAN AMENDMENT BIBLIOGRAPHY The safe disposal of toxic waste has become a global challenge. Each year, world nations produce 440 million tons of toxic waste. This is a highly conservative estimate, given the clandestine... Read more
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mine in warfare, term formerly applied to a system of tunnels dug under an army fortification and ending in a chamber where either explosives were placed to be detonated at the chosen moment or the supports were burned, causing the mine and the wall above it to collapse. Modern mines are encased... Read more
Richard Allen Posner Richard Allen Posner
POSNER, RICHARD ALLEN "[A] pragmatic approach [to lawisone] that is practical and instrumental rather than essentialist—interested in what works and what is useful rather than in what 'really' is. It is therefore forward-looking, valuing continuity with the past only so far as such... Read more
Mindoro Mindoro
Mindoro , island (1990 pop. 832,642), 3,759 sq mi (9,736 sq km), 7th largest of the Philippines, SW of Luzon. Its mountainous interior rises to c.8,500 ft (2,590 m) at Mt. Halcon. What little arable land there is on the island is devoted largely to subsistence farming. Coal is mined, and lumbering... Read more
Engel v. Vitale Engel v. Vitale
ENGEL V. VITALE In 1962, the Supreme Court struck down a state-sponsored prayer in New York public schools in Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, 82 S. Ct. 1261, 8 L. Ed. 2d 601, the first in a line of decisions banning school prayer. In finding a 22-word voluntary prayer unconstitutional, the Court... Read more
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University of Wyoming at Laramie; coeducational; land-grant and state supported; chartered 1886, opened 1887. The Rocky Mt. Herbarium, which has an outstanding collection of plants of the central Rocky Mts., the Laramie Natural Resources Research Institute (which conducts research on oil and gas... Read more
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UNDERWATER DEMOLITION TEAMS UNDERWATER DEMOLITION TEAMS (UDTs) are special units of the United States Navy. During World War II, Germany and Japan devised extensive underwater defenses in anticipation of Allied amphibious landings. The U.S. Marines assault at Tarawa Island in the western Pacific... Read more

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