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Marketplace
Marketplace Since the 1960s, the market for commercial space operations has been limited almost entirely to communications satellites and commercial rocket launchers, with some tentative ventures in the areas of remote sensingand weather observation. Because of the value... Read more |
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Marketer
Marketer Why do consumers stay loyal to certain brand names, buy items they do not need, or upgrade belongings that function perfectly well? Marketers hope to answer these questions and more as they constantly strive to better understand consumer behavior. A marketer is... Read more |
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Inter-American Highway
Inter-American Highway c.3,400 mi (5,470 km) long, section of the Pan-American Highway system from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, to Panama City, Panama. Much of the highway prior to 1941 had been built by the countries concerned, but wartime necessity led the United States to appropriate funds to assist... Read more |
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Liaoyuan
Liaoyuan, Jilin/China Xi'an ‘Source of the Liao (River)’ from láiyuán ‘source of a river’ and the river name. The city is also called Dongliao, this being an alternative name for the river. Founded in 1902, it was upgraded to county status in 1913. In 1948 it... Read more |
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American Medical Association
American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. The AMA investigates alleged cases of medical quackery, engages in medical... Read more |
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Womans Christian Temperance Union
Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), organization that seeks to upgrade moral life, especially through abstinence from alcohol. The National WCTU of the United States was founded (1874) in Cleveland, Ohio, as a result of the Woman's Temperance Crusade that spread through the Midwest at that... Read more |
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Rondonia
Rondônia, Brazil Guaporé A state established as a territory in 1943 and renamed in 1956 after Marshal Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon (1865–1958), an explorer who did much to protect the Native Americans by founding the Indian Protection Service in 1910. The territory was... Read more |
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taconite
taconite low-grade iron ore, a flintlike rock usually containing less than 30% iron. Resistant to drilling and to the extraction of its contained metal, the rock was long considered worthless. Experiments begun in 1912 by the American scientist Edward W. Davis and continued by him for nearly 40... Read more |
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lord privy seal
lord privy seal. The privy seal developed early in the 13th cent. when the use of the great seal was too cumbersome or the king was travelling. From 1275 there was a keeper of the privy seal and the office was upgraded in 1487 when Bishop Foxe was designated lord privy seal. By the end of his long... Read more |
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