improper activity

  • 1improper — UK US /ɪmˈprɒpər/ adjective LAW ► dishonest, and not allowed by a rule or by law: »The cropland may have been polluted because of improper use of pesticides and fertilizers. » improper accounting/payments/trading »improper… …

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  • 2United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management — The United States Senate Select Committee on Improper Activities in Labor and Management (also known as the McClellan Committee) was a select committee created by the United States Senate on January 30, 1957,[1] and dissolved on March 31,… …

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  • 3improperly — improper UK US /ɪmˈprɒpər/ adjective LAW ► dishonest, and not allowed by a rule or by law: »The cropland may have been polluted because of improper use of pesticides and fertilizers. » improper accounting/payments/trading »improper… …

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  • 4concealed weapon — A handgun or other firearm that is concealed on a person’s body or is kept in close proximity to the person. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008. concealed weapon …

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  • 5Wolf ticket (Russia) — Wolf ticket is a literal translation of the Russian language term волчий билет (volchiy bilet), a colloquial expression to denote a version of a document with restrictive clauses in comparison to the full document. Figuratively, the term remains… …

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  • 7Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson — Infobox Minister honorific prefix = The Right Honourable name = The Lord Drayson honorific suffix = imagesize = 150px caption = Lord Drayson signs a memorandum (2006) office = Minister of State for Science term start = 4 October 2008 term end =… …

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  • 8Create Charter High School — is a four year public high school that operates under a charter granted by the New Jersey Commissioner of Education. The school acts independently of the Jersey City Public Schools. The school opened in September 2001. CREATE Charter High School… …

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  • 9Eliot Spitzer political surveillance controversy — The Eliot Spitzer political surveillance scandal (also known as Troopergate) broke out on July 23, 2007 when New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo s office admonished Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer s administration for ordering the… …

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  • 10fraud — Illegal, dishonest, or improper activity. Fraud appears in many guises, including (i) the manipulation of accounting data (or *cooking the books), (ii) the theft of *assets, and (iii) the sale to Competitors of confidential or sensitive… …

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