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  • 121Arab Spring — الربيع العربي …

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  • 122Cessation — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Change from action to rest. < N PARAG:Cessation >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 cessation cessation discontinuance desistance desinence GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 intermission intermission remission Sgm: N 2 suspense suspense …

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  • 123Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender …

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  • 125Shmita — (Hebrew: שמיטה‎, literally release ), also called the Sabbatical Year, is the seventh year of the seven year agricultural cycle mandated by the Torah for the Land of Israel, and still observed in contemporary Judaism. During Shmita, the land is… …

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  • 126Quia Emptores — (medieval Latin for because the buyers , the incipit of the document) was a statute passed by Edward I of England in 1290 that prevented tenants from alienating their lands to others by subinfeudation. Quia Emptores, along with its companion… …

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  • 127Cuba — Cuban, adj., n. /kyooh beuh/; Sp. /kooh vah/, n. a republic in the Caribbean, S of Florida: largest island in the West Indies. 10,999,041; 44,218 sq. mi. (114,525 sq. km). Cap.: Havana. /kooh bah/, n. Cubba. * * * Cuba Introduction Cuba… …

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  • 128performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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