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    within ten years. This followed a policy of "hard currency, economy and gradual reduction of the national debt." Grant's own ideas about the economy were...
    186 KB (22,613 words) - 18:55, 19 November 2024
  • reduced, or reduction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Reduction, reduced, or reduce may refer to: Reduction (chemistry), part of a reduction-oxidation...
    8 KB (1,078 words) - 01:25, 2 November 2023
  • holidays are extra-statutory concessions, where governing bodies grant a reduction in tax that is not necessarily authorized within the law. In developing...
    11 KB (731 words) - 07:04, 30 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inflation Reduction Act
    The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) is a United States federal law which aims to reduce the federal government budget deficit, lower prescription...
    207 KB (21,650 words) - 22:55, 22 November 2024
  • provides a market for "smart" technologies. The 2019 Code added photovoltaic system requirements for low-rise residential buildings. Exceptions grant a reduction...
    6 KB (507 words) - 10:08, 22 July 2024
  • the Great Reduction of 1680, by which the ancient landed nobility lost its power base, the Swedish Crown recaptured lands earlier granted to the nobility...
    7 KB (793 words) - 07:45, 30 October 2024
  • use reduction is an approach to pollution prevention that targets and measures reductions in the upfront use of toxic materials. Toxics use reduction emphasises...
    9 KB (1,095 words) - 12:37, 5 June 2023
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    Disaster risk reduction aims to make disasters less likely to happen. The approach, also called DRR or disaster risk management, also aims to make disasters...
    46 KB (5,958 words) - 10:53, 13 November 2024
  • The Washington Post. Retrieved October 16, 2019. "Federal Judge Grants Sentence Reduction to D.C. Drug Kingpin Rayful Edmond" NPR (February 24, 2021) Retrieved...
    18 KB (1,773 words) - 03:18, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Poverty reduction
    Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people...
    104 KB (12,070 words) - 10:05, 17 November 2024
  • royal prerogatives of the British monarch, by which they can grant pardons (informally known as a royal pardon) to convicted persons. The royal prerogative...
    21 KB (2,173 words) - 15:25, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness
    The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is a 1961 United Nations multilateral treaty whereby sovereign states agree to reduce the incidence of...
    21 KB (1,923 words) - 10:55, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sovereign Grant Act 2011
    Palace, and that once this was accomplished: "a reduction in the absolute amount of the sovereign grant will be sought as part of the royal trustees review...
    18 KB (1,735 words) - 10:27, 25 July 2024
  • A block grant is a grant-in-aid of a specified amount from a larger government to a smaller regional government body. Block grants have less oversight...
    27 KB (3,241 words) - 21:05, 12 November 2024
  • The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is a global partnership program established on September 29, 2006, to support developing...
    5 KB (302 words) - 17:43, 3 January 2024
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    reduced. To protect workers Grant signed an executive order that "no reduction shall be made in the wages" regardless of the reduction in hours for the government...
    180 KB (22,288 words) - 23:49, 16 November 2024
  • first to invent are legal concepts that define who has the right to the grant of a patent for an invention. Since March 16, 2013, after the United States...
    9 KB (1,106 words) - 22:49, 7 September 2024
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    burdensome policies, each rote was granted a reduction in taxes. The allotment system provided Charles XI with a professional army of 18,000 infantrymen...
    30 KB (3,773 words) - 21:44, 30 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction
    The Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program was initiated by the Nunn–Lugar Act (really the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991), which was...
    27 KB (3,136 words) - 23:47, 15 August 2024
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    стратегических наступательных вооружений "reduction of strategic offensive arms") is a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the...
    62 KB (6,000 words) - 20:13, 5 November 2024
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