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1Route assignment — Route assignment, route choice, or traffic assignment concerns the selection of routes (alternative called paths) between origins and destinations in transportation networks. It is the fourth step in the conventional transportation forecasting… …
2Aristophanes — Aristophanic /euh ris teuh fan ik/, adj. /ar euh stof euh neez /, n. 448? 385? B.C., Athenian comic dramatist. * * * born с 450 died с 388 BC Greek playwright. An Athenian, he began his career as a comic dramatist in 427. He wrote approximately… …
3Allonby v. Accrington and Rossendale College — [http://eur lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:62001J0256:EN:HTML C 256/01] Debra Allonby v. Accrington Rossendale College and Others [2004] IRLR 224 is a European Union law case concerning the right of men and women to equal pay… …
4United Nations — 1. an international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945. Abbr.: UN Cf. General… …
5china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …
6China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …
7international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
8Les Aspin — Infobox US Cabinet official name=Les Aspin imagesize=130px order=18th title=Secretary of Defense term start=January 21, 1993 term end=February 3, 1994 predecessor=Dick Cheney successor=William J. Perry birth date=birth date|1938|7|21|mf=y birth… …
9education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …
10space exploration — Investigation of the universe beyond Earth s atmosphere by means of manned and unmanned spacecraft. Study of the use of rockets for spaceflight began early in the 20th century. Germany s research on rocket propulsion in the 1930s led to… …
