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  • 1pull factor — noun The lure of another country, region, organization, or religion. [ hellip;] the fact that agricultural land of acknowledged fertility was lying waste on Bawean constituted a powerful pull factor for the land hungry peasants of those two… …

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  • 2pull factor —   an attractive quality of a place which pulls migrants to it …

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  • 3The X Factor (Australia season 3) — The X Factor Season 3 Broadcast from 29 August 2011–22 November 2011 Judges Guy Sebastian Ronan Keating Natalie Bassingthwaighte Mel B Host(s) Luke Jacobz …

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  • 4John Factor — John “Jake the Barber” Factor was a Prohibition era gangster. He was the brother of prominent businessman Max Factor, Sr., the founder of Max Factor, a makeup company.Early yearsBorn Iakov Factorowitz or Faktorowicz, the son of a rabbi, he and… …

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  • 5The Ex-Factor — Infobox Television episode Colour = #ffaa44 Series = The O.C. Title = The Ex Factor Season = 2 (2004 2005) Caption = Ryan, Seth and Lindsay talking at school Episode = 9 Airdate = January 20, 2005 (FOX) Writer = J. J. Philbin Director = Michael… …

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  • 6The Alternative Factor — NOTOC ST episode name = The Alternative Factor Kirk encounters Lazarus and the timeship series = TOS ep num = 27 prod num = 020 remas. num = 49 date = March 30 1967 writer = Don Ingalls director = Gerd Oswald guest = Robert Brown Janet MacLachlen …

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  • 7Immigration — Immigrant redirects here. For other uses, see Immigrant (disambiguation). For the cellular automaton, see Immigration (CA). For the album by Show Ya, see Immigration (album). Net migration rates for 2011: positive (blue), negative (orange),… …

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  • 8Trade policy of Japan — Export policiesFor many years, export promotion was a large issue in Japanese government policy. Government officials recognized that Japan needed to import to grow and develop, and it needed to generate exports to pay for those imports. After… …

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  • 9Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …

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  • 10Chain migration — has multiple meanings. It refers to the social process by which immigrants from a particular town follow others from that town to a particular city or neighborhood, whether in an immigrant receiving country or in a new, usually urban, location in …

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