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11President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board — The President s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) is an advisor to the Executive Office of the President of the United States. According to its self description, it ...provides advice to the President concerning the quality and adequacy …
12Runway Awareness and Advisory System — The Runway Awareness and Advisory System (RAAS) is an electronic detection system developed by the American electronics company Honeywell. It provides aircraft flight crews with information concerning the aircraft s position relative to an… …
13Boule (ancient Greece) — In the cities of ancient Greece, the boule (Greek: βουλή, plural βουλαί or boulai from the ancient Greek verb βούλομαι ( boulomai ) meaning to will (after deliberating); Latin: volo ) was a council of citizens (called βουλευταί transliterated as… …
14United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
15European System of Central Banks — European Union This article is part of the series: Politics and government of the European Union …
16History of foreign relations of the People's Republic of China — Main article: Foreign relations of the People s Republic of China Since the early 1980s China has pursued a highly independent foreign policy, formally disavowing too close a relationship with any country or region. The stated goals of this… …
17BET DIN AND JUDGES — (Heb. בֵּית דִּין; lit. house of judgment ). Bet din (pl. battei din) is the term, in rabbinic sources, for a Jewish court of law. In modern times it usually refers to an ecclesiastical court dealing with religious matters such as divorce, and… …
18Council for Science and Technology — The Council for Science and Technology (CST) is an advisory non departmental public body of the United Kingdom government. Its role is to give advice on issues that cut across government departments to the Prime Minister, the First Minister of… …
19Government agency — A government or state agency is a permanent or semi permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions, such as an intelligence agency. There is a notable variety… …
20civil service — 1. those branches of public service concerned with all governmental administrative functions outside the armed services. 2. the body of persons employed in these branches. 3. a system or method of appointing government employees on the basis of… …
