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Fair-Trade Laws
FAIR-TRADE LAWS FAIR-TRADE LAWS. Fair-trade laws protect businesses and governments from companies or countries attempting to dump goods into a marketplace at low prices or with unfair subsidies. Initially, fair trade was primarily a domestic issue; after World War II, fair-trade laws developed... Read more |
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insider trading
insider trading stock market transactions made with knowledge of nonpublic information about corporate activity. In the United States, it has been illegal since 1934. The Securities and Exchange Commission regards it as unfair to investors who are not privy to such information. Several insider... Read more |
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Conway Cabal
Conway Cabal 1777, intrigue in the American Revolution to remove George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army. Washington had been defeated at Brandywine and Germantown, and Horatio Gates was flushed with success by his victory in the Saratoga campaign. Some Congressmen and... Read more |
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Omar Bongo
Omar Bongo (El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba) , 1935-, Gabonese political leader, president of Gabon (1967-), b. Albert-Bernard Bongo. He entered the civil service (1958), became minister of information and tourism in 1966, vice president in 1967, and then succeeded to the presidency. He created a... Read more |
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Thomas Conway
Thomas Conway 1735-1800?, general in the Continental army in the American Revolution, b. Ireland. Educated in France, he was an officer in the French army before coming (1777) to America. He fought valiantly as a leader of colonial forces at Germantown, but George Washington attempted to block his... Read more |
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Unconscionable
UNCONSCIONABLE Unusually harsh and shocking to the conscience; that which is so grossly unfair that a court will proscribe it. When a court uses the word unconscionable to describe conduct, it means that the conduct does not conform to the dictates of conscience. In addition, when something is... Read more |
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Federal Trade Commission Act
Federal Trade Commission Act (1914) Herbert Hovenkamp The Federal Trade Commission Act (38 Stat. 717) was originally passed in 1914 with President Woodrow Wilson's enthusiastic support. In its current form, the act states that "unfair methods of competition ... and unfair or deceptive... Read more |
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Hermann Bondi
BONDI, HERMANN(b. Vienna, Austria, 1 November 1919; d. Cambridge, United Kingdom, 10 September 2005)relativity theory, cosmology, astrophysics, science policy.Bondi, an atheist Jewish Anglo-Austrian, was an eminent mathematical physicist, astronomer, and cosmolo-gist. He is probably best known as... Read more |
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Mujibur Rahman
Mujibur Rahman , 1921-75, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) political leader, prime minister of Bangladesh (1972-75), popularly known as Sheikh Mujib. Concerned that East Pakistan was unfairly dominated by West Pakistan, he helped found (1949) the Awami League to fight for East Pakistan's autonomy.... Read more |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) served in both houses of Congress before becoming the thirty-fifth president of the United States. His assassination shocked the world. John F. Kennedy once summed up his time as "very dangerous, untidy." He was the child of two world... Read more |
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