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  • 52fashions, youth —    The history of postwar British fashion and music formations reveals the collective ways in which nonelite groups and communities of young people have shaped distinctive cultures as ‘particular ways of life’. Music and fashion have been used as …

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  • 53skyline — noun an outline of land and buildings defined against the sky …

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  • 54skyline — ► NOUN ▪ an outline of land and buildings defined against the sky …

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  • 55skyline — n. the outline of hills, buildings, etc., defined against the sky; the visible horizon …

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  • 56negative staining — noun : a method of demonstrating the form of small objects (as bacteria) by surrounding them with a stain that they do not take up so that they appear as sharply outlined unstained bright bodies on a colored ground * * * negative staining, the… …

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  • 57lumpenproletariat — Defined emotionally and colourfully by Karl Marx as ‘the scum, the leavings, the refuse of all classes’, he included amongst their number swindlers, confidence tricksters, brothel keepers, rag and bone merchants, organ grinders, beggars, and… …

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  • 58sustainable development — Defined in Our Common Future, the Report of the 1987 World Commission on the Environment and Development (the ‘Brundtland Report’), as ‘development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet …

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  • 59Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …

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  • 60Gun laws in the United States (by state) — U.S. Firearms Legal Topics Assault weapons ban ATF Bureau Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act Concealed carry in the U.S. Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban …

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