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51Calendar of 1994 — ▪ 1995 JANUARY JANUARY 1 Mexican peasants revolt in Chiapas. A group of uniformed Mexican peasants, calling themselves the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), caught the government completely off guard when they attacked and captured …
52Education in the United States — of America U.S. Department of Education Secretary Deputy Secretary Arne Duncan Anthony Miller …
532005 New York City transit strike — A closed entrance to the 45th Street station on the BMT Fourth Avenue Line in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. The 2005 New York City transit strike was a strike in New York City called by the Transport Workers Union Local 100 (TWU). Negotiations for a new …
54Designated Player Rule — The Designated Player Rule, nicknamed the Beckham Rule, was adopted as part of the salary cap regulations of Major League Soccer for the 2007 season. The rule allows each MLS franchise to sign players that would be considered outside of the team… …
55Barbados — Barbadian /bahr bay dee euhn/, adj., n. /bahr bay dohz, dohs, deuhs/, n. an island in the E West Indies constituting an independent state in the Commonwealth of Nations: formerly a British colony. 257,731; 166 sq. mi. (430 sq. km). Cap.:… …
56labour economics — Study of how workers are allocated among jobs, how their rates of pay are determined, and how their efficiency is affected by various factors. The labour force of a country includes all those who work for gain in any capacity as well as those who …
57Bay Area Rapid Transit — Infobox Public transit name = Bay Area Rapid Transit imagesize = 100px locale = San Francisco Bay Area transit type = Rapid transit began operation = September 11, 1972 system length = convert|104|mi|km|abbr=on lines = 5 stations = 43 (1 under… …
58List of Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland, 2001 — This is an incomplete list of Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland in 2001.1 100* Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 S.R. 2001 No. 1 * General Dental Services (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 S.R. 2001 …
59Computers and Information Systems — ▪ 2009 Introduction Smartphone: The New Computer. The market for the smartphone in reality a handheld computer for Web browsing, e mail, music, and video that was integrated with a cellular telephone continued to grow in 2008. According to… …
60Fiscal drag — refers to the process where tax thresholds are either not adjusted for inflation, or fail to keep pace with earnings growth, causing in either case an automatic rise in tax revenues.Example of nominal fiscal dragSuppose a person earns $20,000 per …
