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National Consumers League
National Consumers' League organization designed to promote better conditions among workers by encouraging the purchase of articles made and sold under improved working conditions. The movement started in England (1890); the U.S. group was founded (1899) by Florence Kelley and her followers. The... Read more |
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Incentive services
RETIREMENT: EARLY RETIREMENT INCENTIVES Early retirement incentives (ERIs) are programs or characteristics of benefit plans that encourage older workers to retire before the normal retirement age. This statement raises a series of questions: What is the normal retirement age? What is retirement?... Read more |
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Industrial Safety The issue of industrial safety evolved concurrently with industrial development in the United States. Of central importance was the establishment of protective legislation, most significantly the worker's compensation laws, enacted at the start of the twentieth century, and the... Read more |
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Ashlee Simpson
Ashlee SimpsonPop singer The daughter of a former Sunday school teacher and Baptist youth minister, singer Ashlee Simpson grew up in a household of high religious values, a superstar older sister, and encouraged opportunity for creativity. Born on October 3, 1984, to mother Tina Simpson (who home... Read more |
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Abet
ABET To encourage or incite another to commit a crime. This word is usually applied to aiding in the commission of a crime. To abet another to commit a murder is to command, procure, counsel, encourage, induce, or assist. To facilitate the commission of a crime, promote its accomplishment, or help... Read more |
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Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler Guitar, songwriter For the Record… Selected discography Sources A brief look through Mark Knopfler’s career, and there’s no question: the man loves his job. Starting out as the singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the hit 1980s rock group Dire Straits, Knopfler... Read more |
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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Meta Warrick Fuller Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) is celebrated for being the first American black artist to reflect African themes and folk tales in her work and for being ahead of her time in her understanding of the black experience. Fuller's career spanned over seventy years. Her... Read more |
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Geraldine Farrar
Geraldine Farrar American opera singer Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) was a lyric soprano with great vocal skills and dramatic flair. Often paired with tenor Enrico Caruso at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, her career was relatively short-lived because her voice had given out by 1920. ... Read more |
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Hlebine School
Hlebine School. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. At this time, according to the World Encyclopedia of Naive Art (1984), the village amounted to little more than ‘a few muddy winding... Read more |
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boll weevil
boll weevil or cotton boll weevil , cotton-eating weevil , or snout beetle, Anthonomus grandis. Probably of Mexican or Central American origin, it appeared in Texas about 1892 and spread to most cotton-growing regions of the United States. Over the years the weevil became a significant pest,... Read more |
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