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51Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act — of 1980 (CERCLA) Also known as Superfund. USA Legislation granting the federal government wide reaching authority to clean releases of hazardous substances that threaten the …
52curative act — A form of retrospective legislation reaching back on past events to correct errors or irregularities and to render valid and effective attempted acts which otherwise would be ineffective for the purpose the parties intended, particularly… …
53Portal-to-Portal Pay Act — A federal statute covering the matter of compensation of an employee for time spent on the employer s premises in reaching the place where his services are to be rendered in preparing to start actual work, and other nonproductive activities. 31… …
54nervous system, human — ▪ anatomy Introduction system that conducts stimuli from sensory receptors to the brain and spinal cord and that conducts impulses back to other parts of the body. As with other higher vertebrates, the human nervous system has two main… …
55Dottie West — Background information Birth name Dorothy Marie Marsh Also known as Miss Country Sunshine Born October 11, 1932 …
56landing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. docking, alighting, landfall, disembarkation; wharf, dock, levee, pier; runway, airstrip; three point landing. See arrival, support. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of reaching shore] Syn. arriving,… …
57arrival — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of reaching a certain point Nouns 1. arrival, coming, advent; landing, docking, mooring; debarkation, disembarkation, deplaning; homecoming, return, rencounter. 2. (place of arrival) home, goal,… …
58reach — I. /ritʃ / (say reech) verb (t) 1. to get to, or get as far as, in moving, going, travelling, etc.: the boat reached the shore. 2. to come to or arrive at in some course of progress, action, etc.: his letter reached me. 3. to succeed in touching… …
59List of 2003 This American Life episodes — In 2003, there were twenty eight This American Life episodes.*TAL episode|03|228|You Are So Beautiful... To Me **Act 1: Polly Wants More Than a Cracker Veronica Chater **Act 2: On the Border Between Good and Bad Russell Banks *TAL… …
60Arrival — Ar*riv al, n. [From {Arrive}.] 1. The act of arriving, or coming; the act of reaching a place from a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land. [1913 Webster] Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his… …
