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  • 121government budget — Forecast of governmental expenditures and revenues for the ensuing fiscal year. In modern industrial economies, the budget is the key instrument for the execution of government economic policies. Because government budgets may promote or retard… …

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  • 122football (soccer) — ▪ soccer Introduction also called  association football  or  soccer    game in which two teams of 11 players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, try to maneuver the ball into the opposing team s goal. Only the goalkeeper… …

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  • 123medicine, history of — Introduction  the development of the prevention and treatment of disease from prehistoric and ancient times to the 20th century. Medicine and surgery before 1800 Primitive (primitive culture) medicine and folklore       Unwritten history is not… …

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  • 124nutrition, human — Introduction       process by which substances in food are transformed into body tissues and provide energy for the full range of physical and mental activities that make up human life.   The study of human nutrition is interdisciplinary in… …

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  • 125Pange Lingua Gloriosi — • Article on the two hymns of this name. The second is by Thomas Aquinas. The first is generally credited to Venantius Fortunatus, though some believe it is the work of Claudianus Mamertus Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Pange Lingua… …

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  • 126tabid — adjective /ˈtæbid/ a) Pertaining to tabes. , 1765: by a gradual and most tabid decline, in a course of eighteen hundred years, they must unavoidably have shrunk, so as to have come, when he wrote, almost to nothing. Laurence Sterne, The Life… …

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  • 127Virus — A microorganism smaller than a bacteria, which cannot grow or reproduce apart from a living cell. A virus invades living cells and uses their chemical machinery to keep itself alive and to replicate itself. It may reproduce with fidelity or with… …

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  • 128List of characters in Suikoden V — Contents 1 Royalist 1.1 Royal family 1.1.1 Arshtat 1.1.2 Ferid …

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