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CPA
CPA An abbreviation for certified public accountant. A CPA is a trained accountant who has been examined and licensed by the state. He or she is permitted to perform all the tasks of an ordinary accountant in addition to examining the books and records of various business organizations, such as... Read more |
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Zoning law
Zoning Ordinances Zoning ordinances are local or municipal laws that establishing building codes and land usage regulations for properties in a specified area. Most cities and towns are composed of regions that are zoned for residential, commercial, or industrial development, and often these zones... Read more |
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Pairing
PAIRING PAIRING, a practice whereby two members of Congress of opposing parties who plan to be absent agree that, during a specified period, they will refrain from voting in person but will permit their names to be recorded on opposite sides of each question, thereby not affecting the vote. It... Read more |
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Antiquities Act
Antiquities act of 1906 Robert H. McLaughlin Signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt, the Antiquities Act of 1906 (P.L. 59-209, 34 Stat. 225) became the first major federal legislation to govern archaeology in the United States. The act prohibits the removal of antiquities from federal lands... Read more |
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event recorder
event recorder An instrument that is used to record animal behaviour. The operator has a keyboard, similar to that of a small electronic organ, which permits a very large number of signals to be produced by the pressing of keys or combinations of keys. The signals are transmitted to a recording tape... Read more |
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Floppy Disk
Floppy Disk Background A floppy disk is a portable computer storage device that permits easy handling of data. Commonly used with personal computers, notebook computers, and word processors, such disks consist of flat, circular plates made of metal or plastic and coated with... Read more |
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prefabrication
prefabrication in architectural construction, a technique whereby large units of a building are produced in factories to be assembled, ready-made, on the building site. The technique permits the speedy erection of very large structures. It has been applied to urban housing for more than a century.... Read more |
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Jamnia
Jamnia , biblical Jabneel and Jabneh [Heb.,=God causes to build], ancient city, central Israel. Its modern name is Yavne. A central city of Philistia, the Bible refers to its walls being destroyed by Uzziah. It was pillaged by Judas Maccabaeus and later rebuilt. In the last years before the sack... Read more |
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reivers
reivers or moss-troopers were the names given to border raiders. There was little protection against them, save the building of peel towers and bastle-houses as temporary refuges. Liddesdale on the Scottish side and Redesdale on the English were notorious nests for reivers. Repeated agreements were... Read more |
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Grand Junction
Grand Junction city (1990 pop. 29,034), seat of Mesa co., W Colo., at the junction of the Gunnison and Colorado rivers; inc. 1891. The shipping and processing center of a large ranch and irrigated farm region, it also serves the area's uranium, oil shale, gas, and coal-mining industries. Electronic... Read more |
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Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
...a genius for public communication and building coalitions. He was a patrician who could...four presidential elections—one, of record‐setting landslide proportions. At the age of twenty‐eight he...Depression, FDR proposed a bill that would permit him to name additional ... |
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SADT
...system, a graphical language that can be used to record and communicate that understanding, and administrative...with at progressive levels of detail. Model-building both assists understanding and permits communication of that understanding. Adoption... |
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BUILDING PERMIT
New Lenox Building permit New Lenox has issued building permits for 158 new single...2000 also included building permits for 12 condominium buildings valued at $3.94...million commercial ... |
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BUILDING PERMIT FEE TO INCREASE EFFECTIVE FROM JAN. 1
...management system, building permit fees in...with building permit applicants to...County's current permit management software...for building permits, but it does...Currently both the ... |
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Building Permit Seems Like It Takes Forever
...applied for a construction permit from the county. It...it sought a similar permit from the D.C. government...days later, D.C. records show. The longer wait...three months to obtain building permits in the District, compared...for reviewing ... |
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BUILDERadius' Online Building Permit and Inspection System Debuts In Multiple...
...Delivers Web-based Building Permit Management and...software to building permit authorities, today...by multiple building permit authorities, including...the complete building permit and ... |
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Building-permit totals shoot up in Spokane area
Spokane-area building-permit values surpassed...easily shattering records set the previous...issued building permits valued at a total...percent from a record-high $707...and county issued permits for 2,150 ... |
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Beaumont, Texas, 2002 Building Permit Fees Should Total Nearly $1.4 Million.
...municipal ledger -- building permit fees. The projected...12.9 million. The permit fee earned $26,576...Beaumont should help to permit fees as a healthy revenue...past three years, city permit records show. Here are ... |
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Taking on the System: How to Get a Building Permit in the District
...getting the proper permits? To many homeowners...of the need for a building permit conjures up images...and walk their own permits through the process...to get a building permit, a demolition permit (needed ... |
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Housing Drives Building Permit Growth in Greeley, Colo.
...one of six commercial building permits issued by the city in...help," Bloom said. Permits for new condominiums...continue to drive building permit growth in Greeley...number of multi-family permits probably will ... |
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PRICE OF A BUILDING PERMIT TO GO UP IN NAPERVILLE
...pay more for a permit to build a garage...raising building permit fees 9 percent...staff issued a record number of building permits last year and expect...Only about 1,500 permits were issued for...Officials ... |
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Building permit valuation moves closer to record.
...again setting a record for building permit valuation. Smaller...issued 3,631 permits for a valuation...recorded 329 permits for $88.97...had issued 258 permits for $58.31...city building ... |
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