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  • 51social service — social service, adj. organized welfare efforts carried on under professional auspices by trained personnel. [1850 55] * * * Introduction also called  welfare service,  or  social work,         any of numerous publicly or privately provided… …

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  • 52Nationwide Building Society — Type Building Society (Mutual) Industry Banking and Financial Services Founded merger of societies dati …

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  • 53Cooperative banking — A statue of cooperative pioneer Robert Owen stands in front of the Manchester head office of the UK s Co operative Bank Cooperative banking is retail and commercial banking organized on a cooperative basis. Cooperative banking institutions take… …

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  • 54Marriage — For other uses, see Marriage (disambiguation). Married and Matrimony redirect here. For other uses, see Married (disambiguation) and Matrimony (disambiguation) …

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  • 55NEW YORK CITY — NEW YORK CITY, foremost city of the Western Hemisphere and largest urban Jewish community in history; pop. 7,771,730 (1970), est. Jewish pop. 1,836,000 (1968); metropolitan area 11,448,480 (1970), metropolitan area Jewish (1968), 2,381,000… …

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  • 56culture — /kul cheuhr/, n., v., cultured, culturing. n. 1. the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc. 2. that which is excellent in the arts, manners,… …

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  • 57Italy — /it l ee/, n. a republic in S Europe, comprising a peninsula S of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands: a kingdom 1870 1946. 57,534,088; 116,294 sq. mi. (301,200 sq. km). Cap.: Rome. Italian, Italia. * * * Italy… …

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  • 58COOPERATIVES — The Jewish cooperative movement began toward the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Its development was part of the general spread of cooperatives throughout the world at that time, and was spurred additionally by the rising… …

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  • 59British co-operative movement — The United Kingdom is home to a widespread and diverse co operative movement, with over 3 million individual members. Modern co operation started with the Rochdale Pioneers shop in the northern English town of Rochdale in 1844. Co operatives UK… …

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  • 60Norwich and Peterborough Building Society — Yorkshire Building Society trading as Norwich and Peterborough Building Society Type Building Society (Mutual) Industry Financial Services Founded 1860 (Incorporated 1896) …

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