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121Making Work Pay tax credit — The Making Work Pay Tax Credit was a tax credit allowed by the Internal Revenue Service of the United States.[1] It was authorized in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The credit was given at a rate of 6.2 percent of earned… …
122dirty work — /ˈdɜti wɜk/ (say dertee werk) noun 1. work of an unusually dirty or offensive nature for which employees are paid a special rate as compensation. 2. an activity which is dishonest or illegal: * We need to think about Saddam Hussein using al Qaeda …
123Unit of work — Unit U nit, n. [Abbrev. from unity.] 1. A single thing or person. [1913 Webster] 2. (Arith.) The least whole number; one. [1913 Webster] Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. [1913 Webster] 3. A gold coin of the reign of… …
124Dual Work Exchanger Energy Recovery — The Dual Work Exchanger Energy Recovery (DWEER) is an energy recovery device. In the 1990s developed by DWEER Bermuda and licensed by Calder AG[1] for use in the Caribbean. Seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) needs high pressure and some of the… …
125do sb's dirty work — ► to do something unpleasant or difficult for someone because they do not want to do it themselves: »The building societies have done the chancellor s dirty work for him, by cutting the cost of a mortgage in anticipation of a base rate cut. Main… …
126labour-force participation rate — This refers to the number of people in work and unemployment and those seeking work, as a proportion of a specified baseline population. Rates may vary according to how the base group is defined, for example male, female, the total adult… …
127United States cities by crime rate — 2006 crime rates for cities with 1990 populations greater than 250,000The FBI, on its web site, recommends against using its data as a ranking for a variety of reasons and does not rank the crime rates for cities. [… …
128space rate — a unit of compensation for written work, based on the amount of space that the submitted material occupies in print, and usually computed in column inches. Cf. piece rate. [1905 10] * * * …
