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  • Geddes Axe was the drive for public economy and retrenchment in UK government expenditure recommended in the 1920s by a Committee on National Expenditure chaired...
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  • The Expenditure Review Committee (more commonly known as An Bord Snip) was an advisory committee established by the Irish Government in 1987 to recommend...
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    Beeching cuts (redirect from Beeching axe)
    The Beeching cuts, also colloquially referred to as the Beeching Axe, were a major series of route closures and service changes made as part of the restructuring...
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    in Early Middle Chinese was first written using the logograph "戉" for an axe (a homophone), in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions of the late Shang dynasty...
    352 KB (29,998 words) - 10:44, 24 November 2024
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    school compared to 68% of boys. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the education expenditure per student at the primary school level (age five–nine) is Rs 8,638 ($30...
    171 KB (19,233 words) - 02:20, 21 November 2024
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    himself first with his sword and then, when that broke, with a borrowed battle axe. Finally, he was overwhelmed by Robert's men and taken away from the field...
    111 KB (14,829 words) - 02:49, 18 November 2024
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    (139 lb) for males and 52.3 kg (115 lb) for females, the daily energy expenditure (DEE)—the amount of calories metabolized in one day—was estimated to...
    135 KB (15,678 words) - 23:29, 21 November 2024
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     144–151. Biedermann, Gebbert & Kerner 2012, pp. 20, 151. "SIPRI Military Expenditure Database". Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. "Βολή Οπλικού...
    134 KB (12,299 words) - 05:50, 20 November 2024
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    the short term costs, there would have been nearly an extra £1bn of expenditure on cancellation costs. In November 2013 the contract was renegotiated...
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    strategic bombers. As of 2024, Russia has the world's third-highest military expenditure, at approximately US$130 billion, or over six percent of GDP, compared...
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    "Ministry of Defence: Public Expenditure: Written question – 132371". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. "MoD lifts axe on three Royal Navy patrol...
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    that the party had also pledged some of those savings towards other expenditure plans. On 7 May, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell ruled out rises in...
    367 KB (24,191 words) - 15:29, 8 November 2024
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    Expenditure which proposed heavy cuts in public expenditure to match falling national income, and the austerity policy became known as the Geddes Axe...
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  • title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Geddes Axe, retrenchment of British government expenditure following WW1, named after Sir Eric Geddes This disambiguation...
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    implemented as several single-axis accelerometers oriented along different axes. An accelerometer measures proper acceleration, which is the acceleration...
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    situation report. It reads: "Enemy losses: ten killed, our nil. Ammunition expenditure nil." Gurkhas at kit inspection showing kukri in France during World...
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    the student-led campus newspaper, The Athenaeum; the campus radio station, Axe Radio; and the Environment and Sustainability Office (AESO). Cajun's, the...
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  • Dibble joined on a free transfer as cover for the injured Andy Goram. Expenditure: £9,800,000 Income: £200,000 Total loss/gain: £9,600,000 All results...
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    MP for Llanelli. The position entailed responsibility for Wales, and expenditure on certain public services was delegated from Westminster. In April 1965...
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  • Air Force. The Iraqi government allocated the majority of its military expenditure to the Army and by 1936 the Royal Iraqi Air Force had only 37 pilots...
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