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91Le programme "Cartes d'Identité des Tumeurs (CIT)"® (A French Resource for Molecular Profiling of Tumors) — Programme Cartes d identité des tumeurs Pour les articles homonymes, voir CIT. Échantillons tumoraux contenus dans la base de données du programme répartis par type de cancer …
92zero-base budgeting — ZBB A *budgeting methodology based on the recalculation of costs for each budgetary period. In contrast to traditional budgeting, which is based on historical assumptions and incremental changes in relation to prior years, ZBB requires new cost… …
93Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
94Sustainability — Achieving sustainability will enable the Earth to continue supporting human life as we know it. Blue Marble NASA composite images: 2001 (left), 2002 (right). See also: Sustainable development Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans,… …
95Geography of the Soviet Union — The Soviet Union was located in the middle and northern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Slightly less than 2.5 times the landmass of the United States, it was a continental sized country only slightly smaller than the whole of North America …
96Mineral industry of Russia — Russia is one of the world’s leading mineral producing countries and accounts for a large percentage of the CIS’s production of a range of mineral products, including metals, industrial minerals, and mineral fuels. In 2005, Russia ranked among… …
97Mining industry of Russia — The mineral industry of Russia is one of the world s leading mineral industries and accounts for a large percentage of the Commonwealth of Independent States production of a range of mineral products, including metals, industrial minerals, and… …
98Bloody Valentine War — In the fictional Cosmic Era (CE) timeline of the Gundam metaseries, the Bloody Valentine War is a war that began due to hostilities between the Earth Alliance, an alliance of four major governments on Earth, and PLANT, a nation of space colonies… …
99Czechoslovak Socialist Republic — Československá socialistická republika Satellite state of the Soviet Union ← …
100mining — /muy ning/, n. 1. the act, process, or industry of extracting ores, coal, etc., from mines. 2. the laying of explosive mines. [1250 1300; ME: undermining (walls in an attack); see MINE2, ING1] * * * I Excavation of materials from the Earth s… …
