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Parent participation (Education)
PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT IN EDUCATION Although widespread support for parental involvement is reflected in current educational policies and practices, what this means is not always clear. Parental involvement includes a wide range of behaviors but generally refers to parents' and family members' use... Read more |
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clear-air turbulence
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clearing
clearing in banking, the periodic settling of bankers' claims against each other, for which local banks establish clearinghouse associations. Clearinghouses are said to have existed in Florence by AD 800. They were certainly perfected in Lyons by 1463, and their use was widespread in 18th-century... Read more |
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Buju Banton
Buju Banton Reggae musician For the Record … Selected discography Sources A 12-year-old sensation in the dancehall music scene of Jamaica, Buju Banton later scored a series of number-one hits in his homeland as a teenage deejay and performer. Banton’s debut on the international stage,... Read more |
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Huxley
Huxley ♂ Transferred use of the surname, in origin a local name from a place in Cheshire which is apparently so called from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Hucc + Old English lēah ‘wood, clearing’. Use as a given name was in some cases in honour of the... Read more |
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University of Houston
University of Houston at Houston, Tex.; coeducational; est. 1927 as a junior college, became a four-year institution in 1934, became a state-supported university in 1963. Campuses at Clear Lake, Victoria, and downtown Houston were added in the 1970s. The school has an affiliation with NASA's Lyndon... Read more |
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Hovercraft
hovercraft, also known as a ground effect machine and air cushion vehicle. It supports its own weight by generating and containing an air cushion beneath its hull. The air cushion, usually generated by fans, is created by blowing air beneath the hull. This air hits the surface the vehicle is... Read more |
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Joan Baez
Joan Baez , 1941-, American folk singer and political activist, b. New York City. Baez began singing traditional folk ballads, blues, and spirituals in Cambridge, Mass., coffeehouses in a clear soprano voice with a three-octave range. She made folk music, which had been largely ignored, popular.... Read more |
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Publishers Clearing House
Publishers Clearing House 382 Channel Drive Port Washington, New York 11050 U.S.A. Telephone: (516) 883-5432 Fax: (516) 767-4567 Web site: http://www.pch.com Private Company Incorporated: 1953Employees: 800Sales: $345 million (1997 est.)NAIC: 454110 Electronic Shoppng and Mail-Order Houses;... Read more |
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Missy Higgins Hits the Road in 2009 in Support of Current Album, On a Clear...
...songwriter Missy Higgins will embark...headlining tour in 2009 with openers...U.S., in support of her current album On A Clear Night. Higgins has spent the past year on the road with such artists...Copyright 2009, Biotech Week... |