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United States International Trade Commission
United States International Trade Commission independent agency of the U.S. government established in 1916 as the Tariff Commission; renamed International Trade Commission in 1975. It is charged with serving the president and Congress as an advisory, fact-finding agency on tariff,... Read more |
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The Cocktail Party
Cocktail Party, The, verse play by T.S. Eliot, produced in 1949, published in 1950.At his cocktail party, Edward Chamberlayne tries to conceal the fact that his wife Lavinia has left him, but he is found out by his mistress Celia; talented, lonely Peter Quilpe; and a mysterious stranger, the... Read more |
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The Celestial Railroad
Celestial Railroad, The, allegorical tale by Hawthorne, published in 1843 and collected in Mosses from an Old Manse (1846).The narrator travels the way of Christian in Pilgrim's Progress, from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City. Instead of going afoot, he finds that modern achievement has... Read more |
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Time travel
Time Travel In 1898 H. G. Wells wrote his most famous novel, The Time Machine.In this novel, a young Victorian invented a device that allowed him to travel into the future or the past. He travels 800,000 years into the future and finds a society very different from the... Read more |
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Philosophy of mind
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The mind seems to occupy a special place in the world. It is the seat of thought and feeling, of rationality and moral concern. Is it fundamentally different from the other things we find in the natural world? Is it possible for the mind to be investigated scientifically? Can one... Read more |
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Wrekin Trust
Wrekin Trust British based New Age organization, "concerned with the spiritual nature of Man and the Universe. It was not affiliated to any particular doctrine or dogma, did not offer any one way to 'the truth' and helps people find the disciplines most suited to them. After more than 12 years of... Read more |
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Acquittal
ACQUITTAL The legal and formal certification of the innocence of a person who has been charged with a crime. Acquittals in fact take place when a jury finds a verdict of not guilty. Acquittals in law take place by operation of law such as when a person has been charged as an accessory to the... Read more |
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Negative capability
NEGATIVE CAPABILITY Wilfred Bion, having discovered the importance of the mother's (and by association, the analyst's) capacity to tolerate the infant's (and patient's) projective identifications, sought a source for this tolerance. He reasoned that in analysis, the analyst must possess the... Read more |
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