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Hospital emergency services
EMERGENCY ROOM The hospital emergency department has become a very important access point for health care for elderly persons and this trend will likely continue. The emergency room serves as the site of hospital entry for many patients, with scheduled admissions largely restricted to elective... Read more |
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War and emergency powers
WAR POWERS WAR POWERS. Since the United States was created, Congress and the president have been in conflict over which branch of government has the power to make war. Though the Constitution gives the balance of war power to the legislative branch, the executive branch has steadily enlarged its... Read more |
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Emergency Planning and Community-Right-To-Know Act of 1986
Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (1986) John Cary Sims Excerpt from the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act Not later than six months after October 17, 1986, the Governor of each State shall appoint a State emergency response commission.... Not... Read more |
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Byzantine art and architecture
Byzantine art and architecture works of art and structures works produced in the city of Byzantium after Constantine made it the capital of the Roman Empire (AD 330) and the work done under Byzantine influence, as in Venice, Ravenna, Norman Sicily, as well as in Syria, Greece, Russia, and other... Read more |
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book publishing
book publishing The term publishing means, in the broadest sense, making something publicly known. Usually it refers to the issuing of printed materials, such as books, magazines, periodicals, and the like. There is, however, great latitude of meaning, because publishing has never emerged, and... Read more |
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Barons
barons. The name was first used loosely to mean any great landowners or lords and then acquired a precise meaning as the lowest of the five ranks in the peerage. The word came into use after the Conquest to describe the more important tenants-in-chief. Their special privileges released them from the... Read more |
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Reusable Launch Vehicles
Reusable Launch Vehicles The last decade of the second millennium saw the emergence of the idea of sending payloadsinto space with reusable launch vehicles (RLVs). It appeared to make economic sense to reuse a launch vehicle that cost as much as a small airliner,... Read more |
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Aare
Aare or Aar , longest river entirely in Switzerland, 183 mi (295 km) long, rising in the Bernese Alps and fed by several glaciers. The upper Aare emerges from dam-impounded Grimsel Lake and flows generally W through Lake Brienz, past Interlaken (where it is canalized), and through Lake Thun,... Read more |
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Security Council
SECURITY COUNCIL The April 1991 law creating the office of president of the Russian Federation also created a Security Council, succeeding the security council created by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in November 1990 and presumably modeled after the National Security Council in the United... Read more |
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