The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 8Grolier, 1988 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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315 CULTURE is a term used by social scientists and humanistic scholars that also has wide popular currency . Nontechnical meanings of the term center around the concept of an educated , sophisticated person as a cultured ” individual ...
315 CULTURE is a term used by social scientists and humanistic scholars that also has wide popular currency . Nontechnical meanings of the term center around the concept of an educated , sophisticated person as a cultured ” individual ...
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The several types of public issues were introduced at different times , and their terms have been changed from time to ... Too frequent and large maturities may mean that the Treasury will have no alternative but to offer short - term ...
The several types of public issues were introduced at different times , and their terms have been changed from time to ... Too frequent and large maturities may mean that the Treasury will have no alternative but to offer short - term ...
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The term characteristically evokes positive emotive sponses among those who utter it as well as those who hear it . There was a time when “ democrat " was a term of abuse . Today its connotations are honorable .
The term characteristically evokes positive emotive sponses among those who utter it as well as those who hear it . There was a time when “ democrat " was a term of abuse . Today its connotations are honorable .
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AMERICA CENTRAL | 51 |
The People | 168 |
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