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Grants-in-aid
RESEARCH GRANTS AND INDIRECT COSTS During the later half of the twentieth century, the federal government of the United States invested heavily in research. Unlike other countries, such as Russia and Japan, which produce research within governmental laboratories, the research supported by the... Read more |
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Charles Cunningham Boycott
Boycott, Charles Cunningham (1837–97). Boycott came from Norfolk and after a career in the army retired as a captain. He was engaged in 1873 as land agent by Lord Erne for his Mayo estates. In September 1880 at Ennis, Parnell announced a new policy of ostracizing an opponent of the Irish... Read more |
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Product development
Product Design Product design is cross-functional, knowledge-intensive work that has become increasingly important in today's fast-paced, globally competitive environment. It is a key strategic activity in many firms because new products contribute significantly to sales revenue. When firms are... Read more |
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Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis MONETARY VALUATION AGGREGATION THE SUBORDINATION OF OTHER VALUES BIBLIOGRAPHY The process of cost-benefit analysis, or CBA, enables analysts to exploit a set of analytical economic and econometrics tools to evaluate project investments and policy options. It has been... Read more |
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apartment house
apartment house building having three or more dwelling units. Numerous early examples of this form of dwelling have been found in remains of Roman and medieval cities and in the 17th-cent. Pueblo villages of North America. Its most important development came with the Industrial Revolution. After... Read more |
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Precautionary principle
Precautionary Principle The precautionary principle, also referred to as the precautionary approach, justifies the use of cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation even in the absence of full scientific certainty. This principle has obvious applications to various forms of... Read more |
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Planetary mapping
Data Purchase Congressional funding for space science has been steady at a few billion dollars per year, so there is a known, existing market. Until the early 1990s, each deep-space mission cost taxpayers about $2.5 billion. Since the National Aeronautics and Space... Read more |
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Family medicine
SPECIALIZATION VERSUS GENERAL PRACTICE Planning and the Structure of the Medical Profession During the 1920s the growing complexity of medicine led to a bewildering range of new information for a physician to assimilate. Hospitals and climes grew in number, and medical costs ranged... Read more |
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Costs
Costs Costs are the necessary expenditures that must be made in order to run a business. Every factor of production has an associated cost. The cost of labor, for example, used in the production of goods and services is measured in terms of wages and benefits. The cost of a fixed asset used in... Read more |
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Great Society
Great Society in U.S. history, term for the domestic policies of President Lyndon Johnson . In his first State of the Union message, he called for a war on poverty and the creation of a "Great Society," a prosperous nation that had overcome racial divisions. To this end, Johnson proposed an... Read more |
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