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Content Provider
CONTENT PROVIDER Content providers are generally perceived to be Web sites that supply different types of online information—including news, entertainment, traffic reports, and job listings—that is regularly updated. The first content providers were entities such as America Online... Read more |
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Freehold
freehold An estate in land that is now usually held in fee simple. Land that is not freehold will be leasehold land.... Read more |
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Fee
FEE A compensation paid for particular acts, services, or labor, generally those that are performed in the line of official duties or a particular profession. An interest in land; an estate of inheritance. An estate is an interest in land, and a fee, in this sense, is the shortened version of the... Read more |
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Credit Bureau
Credit Bureaus A credit bureau is an agency that collects and sells information about the credit-worthiness, or the ability to meet debt obligations, of individuals and companies. Consumer credit bureaus maintain and report on this information for individuals, while commercial credit bureaus... Read more |
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John Gregg Fee
John Gregg Fee 1816-1901, American abolitionist clergyman, b. Bracken co., Ky. After two years (1842-44) at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, he devoted himself to the abolitionist cause in Kentucky; for this he was disinherited by his slaveholding parents. He founded antislavery churches,... Read more |
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Charon
Charon in Greek mythology, an old man who ferried the souls of the dead across the Rivers Styx and Acheron to Hades; he received a fee of one obol for each soul.... Read more |
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managed health care
managed health care system of health-care delivery that aims to control costs by assigning set fees for services, monitoring the need for procedures such as tests and surgical operations, and stressing preventive care. Managed health-care systems include health maintenance organizations ;... Read more |
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Digital map services
RESEARCH SHARING The International Journal of Geographical Information Science is a scholarly publication that brings together the latest information on GIS technology from around the globe. The publication is geared to professionals involved in GIS applications, and... Read more |
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Common Carrier
COMMON CARRIER An individual or business that advertises to the public that it is available for hire to transport people or property in exchange for a fee. A common carrier is legally bound to carry all passengers or freight as long as there is enough space, the fee is paid, and no reasonable... Read more |
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catalog
catalog descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. BC The library at Pergamum also had a catalog.... Read more |
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Libraries
...the next century the Library Company became the...other types of social libraries, including athenaeums...where patrons paid a fee to draw from collections...however, public library users were much more interested...reading.Academic ... |
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hypertext
...1945 envisioned a ‘private file and library’ with screen and keyboard, with facilities...Xanadu, the Web was crude: it left users to make their own arrangements for protecting copyright and collecting fees. But people and organizations happily... |
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Phase-Out of Library User Fees Suggested;Charges for Services May Violate...
...recommended that all user fees in Maryland public libraries be phased out over...increasing. Although the fees may help meet a...each board of library trustees shall establish and operate the library to provide ... |
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WHERE'S THE LOGIC IN LIBRARY USER FEES?(BUSINESS)(WORKING)(Column)
...old state law that library services be free for...budget that gave the libraries no increase, even as their user rates, cost of materials...the South Central Library System would lose...the Assembly thinks fees would encourage a ... |
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Library inches toward user fees
...Fort Vancouver Regional Library District officials declined...Community Library. The fee under consideration Monday...without any fines or fees, such as overdue charges...taken pride in being user-friendly. Theyve been...revenue, and ... |
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PUBLIC LIBRARY TO CHARGE USER FEES
...reduction in the Gary Public Library's 1990 operating budget...forced the need to assess user fees. According to Library Director Andrew Venable, the assessment of user fees is required until the...offered. However, a $1 ... |
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GOP'S LIBRARY FEE IDEA DRAWS USERS' IRE.(COMMUNITIES)(UP CLOSE)(Column)
...communities that don't have libraries -- had more than 3.5 million...they were doing the public libraries a favor. "Because this isn...very destructive." Local library boards, she points out...percent or you could raise fees' -- well, that would put...stands ... |
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User fees possible at local libraries
...words "Free Public Library" etched above the entrance to some St. Joseph libraries may not be a valid statement anymore, as library board members of the...ponder non-resident user fees. Under a proposal that...residents would be charged a ... |
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SOME T.O. LIBRARY USERS MAY HAVE TO PAY UP : DIRECTOR WANTS TO CHARGE THOSE...
...After enjoying the same library privileges as Thousand...annual $55 nonresident fee for a library card. At Tuesday's City Council meeting, library director Marvin Smith...the $55 nonresident user's fee in 1991 due to...200 ... |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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FINDING MONEY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARIES DON'T LOOK TO USER FEES TO FUND LIBRARY...
...understandable that user fees will find their way...shouldn't be adopted. Fees are the antithesis of...The talk of library fees centers on several ideas...universal library-card fee. Another would charge ... |
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Budget Cuts, Not User Fees, Library Told
...s proposal to charge user fees for new electronic information...Billington: Prepare the library for the budget ax...that the library's fee-for-service proposal...library has charged fees for its ... |
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BEACH LOOKS AT FEES FOR NON-RESIDENT LIBRARY USERS.(LOCAL)
...libraries. The user fee is being touted...residents. No fee amount has been...city to have such fees. The City Council...consider charging fees to anyone. Since...inception, Sims said, libraries have been ... |
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