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51Contel — Corporation Former type Public Industry Communications Services Fate Acquired Successor GTE Founded 1960 Defunct …
52jump-start — /jump stahrt /, n. 1. Also, jump. Auto. the starting of an internal combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery by means of booster cables. v.t. 2. to give a jump start to: to jump start an engine. 3. to enliven or revive: to jump… …
53Kennedy, John F. — ▪ president of United States Introduction in full John Fitzgerald Kennedy , byname JFK born May 29, 1917, Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. died November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas 35th president of the United States (1961–63), who faced a number… …
54Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 — A housing act that is designed to help families keep homes that are facing foreclosure and stabilize the overall housing market. The American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 seeks to achieve this goal through measures such… …
55Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price - MSRP — The amount of money for which the company that produces a product recommends that it be sold in stores. MSRP does not necessarily correspond to the price retailers actually use or to the price customers are willing to pay. Retailers may need to… …
56hallmark — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. imprint, badge, mark, cachet, stamp; guarantee, authority; characteristic, feature, attribute, trait, speciality. See indication. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. certification, mark of excellence, mark of… …
57jump-start — jump′ start n. 1) aum the starting, by means of booster cables, of an internal combustion engine that has a discharged or weak battery 2) aum to give a jump start to: to jump start the car s engine[/ex] 3) to enliven or revive: to jump start a… …
58Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
59japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …
60Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …
