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  • 11reduce the headcount —    to dismiss employees    It is the bodies, not the headcount, who suffer the reduction:     Smith is determined to turn the business round and stripping out costs and reducing the headcount will undoubtedly help. (Sunday Telegraph, 8 August… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 12reduce your commitments —    involuntarily to leave employment    Not just paying off your debts or moving to a cheaper house:     ... a former finance director of Mirror Group Newspapers facing charges of false accounting and conspiring with Robert and Kevin Maxwell, has …

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  • 13reduce a decree — In Scotland, the recall of a decree. The difference between reponing a decree and having it reduced, appears to be, that on reponing, the pursuer in the original process, must show that the decree was well founded; but when it is not reponed, the …

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  • 14Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not — WP:NOT redirects here. For Wikipedia s notability guidelines, see Wikipedia:Notability. This page documents an English Wikipedia policy, a widely accepted standard that all editors should normally follow. Changes made to it should reflect… …

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  • 15Food Not Bombs — is a loose knit group of independent collectives, serving free vegan and vegetarian food to others. Food Not Bombs ideology is that myriad corporate and government priorities are skewed to allow hunger to persist in the midst of abundance. To… …

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  • 16Shaken, not stirred — This article is about the catchphrase. For other uses, see Shaken, not stirred (disambiguation). Shaken, not stirred is a catchphrase of Ian Fleming s fictional British Secret Service agent James Bond, and his preference for how he wished his… …

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  • 17Correlation does not imply causation — (related to ignoring a common cause and questionable cause) is a phrase used in science and statistics to emphasize that correlation between two variables does not automatically imply that one causes the other (though correlation is necessary for …

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  • 18Care Not Cash — was a San Francisco ballot measure (Proposition N) approved by the voters in November 2002. Primarily sponsored by Gavin Newsom, then a San Francisco supervisor, it was designed to cut the money given in the General Assistance programs to… …

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  • 19Geoengineering — Not to be confused with Geotechnical engineering. An oceanic phytoplankton bloom in the South Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Argentina. Encouraging such blooms with iron fertilization could lock up carbon on the seabed. The modern concept of… …

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  • 20alpha-Linolenic acid — Not to be confused with linoleic acid. This article is about alpha linolenic acid. For other uses, see Linolenic acid. α Linolenic acid …

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