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Fala
Fala name of a Scotch terrier belonging to Franklin Roosevelt, which in 1944 was in the news when it was reported that the dog had been left on an Aleutian island and that a destroyer had been sent back for it. Roosevelt (in his dog's name) firmly countered stories of the waste of taxpayers' money,... Read more |
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badger
badger name for several related members of the weasel family. Most badgers are large, nocturnal, burrowing animals, with broad, heavy bodies, long snouts, large, sharp claws, and long, grizzled fur. The Old World badger, Meles meles, is found in Europe and in Asia N of the Himalayas; it is... Read more |
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IMF
IMF (International Monetary Fund) ¦ STEPHANIE WATSON The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an economic organization that promotes financial cooperation, economic stability, and fair trade among its 184 member nations and provides temporary monetary assistance to... Read more |
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Brewsters Millions
Brewster's Millions (1906), a play by Winchell Smith and Byron Ongley. [New Amsterdam Theatre, 163 perf.] Montgomery Brewster ( Edward Abeles) is left one million dollars in the will of his grandfather, who died remorseful over neglecting his daughter, Brewster's mother. Monty's joy at his... Read more |
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mantis shrimp
mantis shrimp marine crustacean characterized by a pair of enlarged appendages, called maxillipeds, that form powerful claws for seizing prey. The last two segments of each of these legs are strong and sharp, and the end segment is folded back over the next segment to make a scissorslike cut.... Read more |
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killer whale
killer whale or grampus, a large, rapacious marine mammal, Orcinus orca, of the dolphin family. Male killer whales may reach a length of 30 ft (9 m) and females half that length. The killer whale is black above, with a sharply contrasting white oval patch around each eye; its belly is white... Read more |
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William Proxmire
William Proxmire (Edward William Proxmire), 1915-2005, U.S. senator (1957-89), b. Lake Forest, Ill. He worked in army counterintelligence during World War II and later entered politics, serving (1951-52) as a Democrat in the Wisconsin state assembly. After three unsuccessful attempts at the... Read more |
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Health care reform
HEALTH CARE HEALTH CARE. The term "health care system" refers to a country's system of delivering services for the prevention and treatment of disease and for the promotion of physical and mental well-being. Of particular interest to a health care system is how medical care is organized,... Read more |
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visual acuity
visual acuity Sharpness of vision: the ability of the eye to distinguish between objects that lie close together. This hinges on the ability of the eye to focus incoming light to form a sharp image on the retina. Visual acuity depends on the cone cells, which are most densely packed in the fovea,... Read more |
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