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Online shopping
Virtual Shopping BUSINESS PLAN CLICK 'N SHOP INC. 425 Loop Rd., Ste. 14 Chicago, IL 60060 March 1995 This business plan for a virtual reality application is an example of how state-of-theart technology can become the basis for a popular start-up... Read more |
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Soil Conservation
SOIL CONSERVATION CONCEPT With the rise of the environmentalist movement in the 1960s and afterward, it has become common to speak of conserving natural resources such as trees or fossil fuels. Yet long before humans recognized the need to make responsible use of things... Read more |
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environmentalism
environmentalism movement to protect the quality and continuity of life through conservation of natural resources , prevention of pollution , and control of land use . The philosophical foundations for environmentalism in the United States were established by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo... Read more |
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National Indian Youth Council
NATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH COUNCIL NATIONAL INDIAN YOUTH COUNCIL. The National Indian Youth Council, an all-Indian organization, was started in 1961 by Indian college students and recent college graduates. The council is more militant than the National Congress of American Indians, which it has... Read more |
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Social movements
Social MovementsI. TYPES AND FUNCTIONS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTSRudolf HeberleII. THE STUDY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTSJoseph R. GusfieldThe articles under this heading survey and analyze the general features of social movements and describe various approaches to their study. Specific movements and types of... Read more |
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Peoria
Peoria: Economy Major Industries and Commercial Activity Located at the center of a fertile agricultural region, with corn and soybeans as principal crops, Peoria is an important livestock and grain exporting market. Farm production and livestock sales in the three-county... Read more |
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Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention in U.S. history, the 1787 meeting in which the Constitution of the United States was drawn up. The Road to the Convention The government adopted by the Thirteen Colonies in America (see Confederation, Articles of , and Continental Congress ) soon showed serious... Read more |
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National R.V. Holdings Inc
National R.V. Holdings, Inc. 3411 North Ferris BoulevardFerris, California 92571U.S.A.Telephone: (909) 943-6007Fax: (909) 943-5204Web site: http://www.nrvh.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1964 as Dolphin Trailer CompanyEmployees: 1,903Sales: $360.3 million (1998)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker... Read more |
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Americanism
Americanism BIBLIOGRAPHY Americanism is an ideology that holds that the cultural and political values of the United States are the most ideal and desirable of any in the world. It is closely linked with American exceptionalism, a phrase coined by Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) in 1831.... Read more |
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Industrial Relations Act
Industrial Relations Act, 1971. The Act, designed by a newly elected Conservative government (which abandoned incomes policy) to weaken the bargaining powers of trade unions, had its origins in the problems encountered by earlier administrations, such as excessive wage demands, unofficial strikes,... Read more |
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colour blindness
...recognized that there are measurable differences in colour perception between people with...There are people who have no eye for difference of colour. The Duke of Marlborough actually cannot tell scarlet...but they always reveal themselves by making anomalous settings in a ... |
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initiation rites
...alternatively, of decreasing it; as a way of enhancing the differences between male and female genitalia or, through its mimicry of female bleeding, a way of making them more similar — and so on. All of these may form...stressed at the expense of sexual meaning and no essential ... |
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neurotransmitters
...itself, because he demonstrated subtle differences between the responses to the transmitter...the nerve fibres have a mechanism for making, storing, and releasing the transmitter...not the neurotransmitter was based on differences between the responses to adrenaline and... |
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symmetry and asymmetry
...individuals, however, reveals that small differences between left and right structures exist...different functions, for example, in tool-making, for which one hand holds the material...though it is an open question whether such differences are innate or environmentally ... |
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Cold War
...unacknowledged, ideological and philosophical differences. Defenders of U.S. policies blame the Cold...policy. Instead, they highlight bureaucratic differences within the Soviet decision‐making elite and security concerns rooted in Russian... |
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development and growth: school age and adolescence
...growth spurt has nearly finished. The difference in magnitude of these growth spurts largely explains the difference in final heights attained by boys compared...with a series of physiological changes making them more capable than girls of doing... |
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great chain of being
...objects together by subtle degrees of difference tended to humble humans' estimate of their unique and...meaning ‘wise,’ was a gesture toward making man essentially different from animals...varieties could be reduced to fine degrees of difference, with a particular person's ... |
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Privateering
...aboard which thousands of mariners served, in hopes of making patriotic windfall profits. American privateering expanded...has often been confused with piracy, but there were major differences between them. Privateering was a legal enterprise, conducted...eliminated by the early 1700s. There ... |
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strain and stress analysis
...strain is the rule, brought about by differences in mechanical properties between components...the measurement of strains coupled with making assumptions about the stress–strain relationship...parameter expressing the ratio of the differences of the principal stress values, ... |
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Adams, Maude
...western accent. She moved east in a play called The Paymaster, making her New York debut in 1888, then came to the attention of E...would guarantee a sold‐out house, she made him refund the difference before she would perform. “Graceful as a kitten,” she... |
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family, sociology of
...different values and beliefs, and these differences affect not only gender-role conceptions...other social institutions. Similar differences emerge for families of different class...off-spring. Kohn attributes this difference in orientation to the father's occupation, ... |
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Part 2 Business and mechanical technology.(Part 2: G-P)(Definition)
...Index--An estimate of the future Predicted Difference of a young bull. See Predicted Difference. Genetic Trait Summary (GTS)--The comparative...service established in 1879 for the purpose of: making topographical maps; mapping earth structures... |
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Judaism
...of Torah. Even then, there are major differences in the ways in which Torah...and later conquest, of territory, making a covenant, not only with each...major communities (between whom many differences, especially of custom, persist) were... |
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justice, social
...deterring further misdemeanours, or making any other contribution to social utility...starts with John Rawls's famous ‘difference principle’, which asserts that inequalities in...turn, takes absolute priority over the difference principle itself, which (as we have... |
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Mill, John Stuart
...1843). Ronald Fletcher (The Making of Sociology, 1971) argues...s ‘contribution to the making of sociology is little known and has...experimental inquiry’: of difference (comparing two particular...statement of a clear hypothesis, making of inferences from ... |
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modes
...or org., the notes of which constitute (with slight differences of tuning) the scale worked out scientifically in the 4th...604) 4 more were added (plagal) and later 4 more, making 12. In the Authentic modes, the 5th note (the dominant), was much used as a reciting...XII. HypoIonianIt should ... |
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cultural theory
...and the interplay between cultural tradition and cultural difference and diversity. Cultural theory has also been marked by an...Williams (The Long Revolution, 1961) and E. P. Thompson (The Making of the English Working Class, 1963) have been particularly... |
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industry, sociology of
...been a tendency to technological determinism, and to the making of inferences about macroscopic change in industrial society...considerable body of literature attempted to explain these differences, and hence to say something about the dynamics of social... |
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methodology, feminist
...than working with abstract notions of isolated individuals making rational choices. The ‘standpoint’ position sees feminism...historical and local situations, and recognizes important differences among women (of race, class, ethnicity, and sexual orientation... |
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pragmatism (philosophy of)
...notion by tracing its respective practical consequences. What difference would it practically make to anyone if this notion rather than that...Chicago School of sociology, and Paul Rock has argued (in The Making of Symbolic Interactionism, 1979) that it was important in... |
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distinguish
...discriminate, determine; tell the difference between, decide between...discriminate is to perceive the differences between or among things...Distinguish requires making even finer distinctions...the ability to perceive differences between things that ... |
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make
...write, direct. 7. make money | he's making a profit | can't make a good wagesynonyms...balancesynonyms: supply, furnish, provide. 3. making up for their previous rudenesssynonyms...shake hands, become reconciled, settle differences, mend fences. 5. make up a ... |
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Quantifying Interagency Differences in Tropical Cyclone Best-Track Wind Speed...
...agencies. In light of these differences, it is imperative to analyze and document the interagency differences in tropical cyclone intensities...to investigate the current differences, where linear systematic...own operating procedures for making forecasts ... |
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Age Difference between Spouses and Contraceptive Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
...contraceptive practice and age difference between spouses. Despite...continent where mean age differences between spouses are the largest...couples with the smallest age difference. Conversely, women married...of individual decision-making power and in the ... |
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Sexual difference and politics in France today.
...defined as equal). The difference between these two formulations of sexual difference as well as the various...it acknowledges that difference and similitude coexist...on "Women and Decision Making in the European Union... |
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Sex Differences In Business Ethics: The Importance Of Perceptions.
...view research emphasizes the differences between men and women, while...much of the research on sex differences--the gender socialization...differently in managerial decision making, leadership, and problem...no significant sex-based differences exist in ... |
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Intercultural differences between Chinese and Americans in business.
...Lou, 1992). Cultural Differences Major differences between the Chinese and the...All of these lead to cultural differences. Cultural differences may be...first obstacle. The Chinese are making tremendous efforts to learn... |
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Difference and diversity in Ontario schooling
Difference and Diversity in Ontario...production and treatment of human difference and diversity in Ontario...sense of national identity. Making visible these reactions is...of cultural and linguistic difference intensified with 19th - century...cultural, and ... |
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Undecidable difference: a Derridian conception of animal difference in Animal...
...poststructuralist period, making it difficult to do justice...So, instead of many differences, we now have only one difference--human or not human...remain open. As long as difference remains fluid and undecidable...hierarchy built upon these ... |
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Differences in interest rate policy at the ECB and the fed: an investigation...
...generated a debate about differences in the degree of central...investigate the source of this difference using two New Keynesian...structure allows to describe differences in economic structure and...Atlantic. A first reason is differences in the estimated ... |
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Personality and Stress: Individual Differences in the Stress Process. (book...
...stress and individual-difference variables and for...between individual differences, personality and...between individual-difference variables and stress...attributed both to differences in definition (making comparative analyses...between ... |
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Making peace with difference: A hermeneutic of inclusive conversation
...taking new forms, making new claims, and challenging...must make peace with human difference. Difference is the puzzler of human...their bottom in perceived differences with the "Other." Difference may also be seen as the... |
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