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11Restitution extraordinaire — Extraordinary rendition Le terme extraordinary rendition (littéralement « reddition extraordinaire ») désigne une action illégale [1] présumée de l agence centrale de renseignements américaine, la CIA, qui consiste à enlever des… …
12Reparations for slavery — is a proposal by some in the United States that some type of compensation should be provided to the descendants of enslaved people, in consideration of the labor provided for free over several centuries, which has been a powerful and influential… …
13Coefficient of restitution — A bouncing basketball captured with a stroboscopic flash at 25 images per second. Ignoring air resistance, the square root of the ratio of the height of one bounce to that of the preceding bounce gives the coefficient of restitution for the… …
14Securities Fraud Deterrence and Investor Restitution Act — The Securities Fraud Deterrence and Investor Restitution Act was USBill|108|H.R.|2179 and is a bill currently on the Union Calendar. Its official titles as introduced, is To enhance the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission to… …
15Bad Check Restitution Program — A Bad Check Restitution Program is an intermediate agency that works to retrieve funds from bad check writers in order to repay moneys owed to the recipients of the checks.About half of all U.S. states offer some type of Bad Check Restitution… …
16Northeast Kingdom Community Action — Type Non Profit Industry social services Founded 1964 (Orleans County, Vermont, Caledonia County, and Essex County) Headquarters …
17Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — Infobox Organization name = Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now image border = size = caption = msize = mcaption = abbreviation = ACORN motto = formation = 1970 extinction = type = Non governmental organization status = purpose …
18COMMANDMENTS, REASONS FOR — (Heb. טַעֲמֵי הַמִּצְווֹת, Ta amei ha Mitzvot). The search for reasons for the commandments of the Torah springs from a tendency to transcend mere obedience to them by investing them with some intrinsic meaning. The Pentateuch itself offers… …
19affirmative action — Constructive action rather than mere negation. As the term is used in the National Labor Relations Act in authorizing affirmative action by the Labor Relations Board in ordering the reinstatement of an employee who was discharged for union… …
20IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT — IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT, the imprisonment of a debtor who fails to pay his debt on or before the date due. Prevalence in Other Legal Systems Influenced by Roman law (see execution civil law), imprisonment for debt was the most common means of… …
