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Overachiever
Overachievers BIBLIOGRAPHY The motivational basis for human-achievement behavior has interested psychologists for decades. Research has linked basic psychological theory to applications in education, business, and industry where achievement is critical. Striving for success pervades social... Read more |
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Mass Customization
MASS CUSTOMIZATION The prevalence of customized goods has waned since the industrial revolution in favor of mass-produced goods, and for good economic reasons. Since industrial technology allowed for the mass production of virtually identical goods, the input costs for each unit declined, allowing... Read more |
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Mississippi State University for Women
Mississippi State University for Women at Columbus; the first state-supported women's college; chartered 1884, opened 1885 as Mississippi Industrial Institute and College, renamed Mississippi State College for Women 1920, achieved university status 1974. It has graduate programs in education and... Read more |
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Mousetrap
Mousetrap Scientists describe the mousetrap as a device that is "irreducibly complex." The mousetrap cannot be made more simply and still function, and, at the same time, it is so simple and does its job so well that it gives the illusion of being a profound achievement. "To... Read more |
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Manchester
Manchester , city and metropolitan district (1991 pop. 397,400), NW England, on the Irwell, Medlock, Irk, and Tib rivers. Manchester remains the center of the most densely populated area of England, despite the tremendous amount of outmigration between 1961 and 1981. It has been engaged in building... Read more |
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Achievement
Achievement MEASURING ACHIEVEMENT UNDERSTANDING MOTIVATION STEREOTYPE THREAT BIBLIOGRAPHY The modern scientific study of achievement began with Henry Murray’s seminal study of basic human ne... Read more |
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veterinary medicine
veterinary medicine diagnosis and treatment of diseases of animals. An early interest in animal diseases is found in ancient Greek writings on medicine. Veterinary medicine began to achieve the stature of a science with the organization of the first school in the field in Lyons, France, in 1761,... Read more |
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Mass production
MASS PRODUCTION MASS PRODUCTION is a system of manufacturing based on principles such as the use of interchangeable parts, large-scale production, and the high-volume assembly line. Although ideas analogous to mass production existed in many industrialized nations dating back to the eighteenth... Read more |
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disarmament
...brought the two superpowers, the USA and the USSR, to the brink of a nuclear war, led for the first time to a general assessment...disarmament, which were partly realized. Some countries such as the Ukraine agreed to their nuclear weapons being destroyed, while in September... |
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New analysis: Russia, Ukraine on brink of new gas cutoff
New analysis: Russia, Ukraine on brink of new gas cutoff by Xinhua writers...Jialin MOSCOW, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Ukraine is due to pay about 5 billion U...Tuesday. Moscow has cast doubts on Ukraine's solvency and warned of a possible... |
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Ukraine on brink of revolt; Beaten candidate alleges vote rigging.(News)
Byline: LIAM CHRISTOPHER UKRAINE was on the edge of revolt last night...wants closer ties to Moscow winning Ukraine's bitterly fought presidential runoff...Kuchma and the government of Russia, Ukraine's powerful neighbour. ``With an... |
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Ukraine on brink of revolt; Revolution talk after `rigged' election.(News)
...were rising as temperatures plummeted in Ukraine last night and revolution was in the air...Western nations and Russia, which considers Ukraine part of its sphere of influence and a...s political and trade relations with Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin ... |
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Ukraine 'standing on the brink of war'; Riot police move in as 200,000 join...
Byline: WILL STEWART UKRAINE was said to be on the brink of bloodshed last night as tens...Jan Peter Balkenende calling Ukraine's outgoing president, Leonid...outside. Yushchenko warned that Ukraine was on the brink of 'civil conflict... |
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Ukraine over the brink. (political and economic crises)
...may even threaten the future of Ukraine as an independent state. No wonder...Mr Kuchma gave warning that Ukraine is "on the brink of an economic catastrophe...come to this in just two years. Ukraine's parliamentarians voted in... |
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Ukraine on brink of civil war.(News)
OPPOSITION leader Viktor Yushchenko declared victory in Ukraine's presidential election yesterday and took a symbolic oath...Yanukovych and announced a campaign of civil disobedience. ``Ukraine is on the threshold of a civil conflict, '' Yushchenko told... |
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Divided Ukraine poised 'on the brink of catastrophe'
...Yushchenko, gave Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine's outgoing president, 24...Russian Mr Yanukovych warned Ukraine was facing catastrophe...say that today we are on the brink of catastrophe. There is one...That raises the spectre of Ukraine going down a path trodden ... |
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Ukraine on the brink - On the brink.(Ukraine on the brink)
...Independence Square and in front of the Rada, Ukraine's parliament, this week has been both...not just a disputed election result. Ukraine's future is in the balance. That the...Tensions between the western part of Ukraine (overwhelmingly pro-Yushchenko) and... |
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Ukraine on the brink. (Editorial)
...who have noticed what is happening in Ukraine will not be worried. The question is...temptation to do something springs from Ukraine's economic state. The introduction...payments. To finance the oil and gas that Ukraine needs to import to keep factories open... |
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Poll frozen as Ukraine remains on the brink.(News)
...of 48 million back from the brink of conflict, said he held...and Moscow, which considers Ukraine part of its sphere of influence...the West are substantial. Ukraine's Black Sea port of Sevastopol...carrying Russian gas and oil cross Ukraine. As for Moscow's ... |
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