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  • 121Seedco — Seedco, the Structured Employment Economic Development Corporation, is a national, nonprofit, community development organization that works with local organizations in low income communities to promote economic advancement and help people move… …

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  • 122Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan, adj., n. /sree lahng keuh, lang keuh, shree / an island republic in the Indian Ocean, S of India: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 18,762,075; 25,332 sq. mi. (65,610 sq. km). Cap.: Colombo. Formerly, Ceylon. Arabic, Serendip.… …

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  • 123Clement Attlee — Attlee redirects here. For other people named Attlee, see Atlee (name). For other uses, see Atlee. The Right Honourable The Earl Attlee KG OM CH FRS PC …

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  • 124Rudolf Meidner — Rudolf Alfred Meidner, born June 23 1914 in Breslau, Silesia, died December 9 2005 in Lidingö, Sweden.Son of Alfred Meidner and Elise Bandmann. Being Jewish and a Socialist he was forced to flee Nazi Germany after the Reichstag fire in Berlin… …

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  • 125Tom Kertes — (born January 4, 1973) is an American human rights activist living in Canada.NotabilityTom Kertes was media strategist for the United Workers Association s successful living wages campaign at Camden Yards. The association claimed that workers at… …

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  • 126Libya — /lib ee euh/, n. 1. Anc. Geog. the part of N Africa W of Egypt. 2. Italian, Libia. a republic in N Africa between Tunisia and Egypt: formerly a monarchy 1951 69. 5,648,359; 679,400 sq. mi. (1,759,646 sq. km). Cap.: Tripoli. * * * Libya… …

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  • 127Singapore — Singaporean, n., adj. /sing geuh pawr , pohr , sing euh /, n. 1. an island on the Strait of Singapore, off the S tip of the Malay Peninsula. 2. an independent republic comprising this island and a few adjacent islets: member of the Commonwealth… …

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  • 128Immigration's Economic Impact — ▪ 2007 Introduction Richard B. Freeman  At the turn of the 21st century, the U.S. was the major immigrant receiving country in the world, as it had been a century earlier. In 2005 the U.S. population included some 35 million immigrants, who… …

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