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• J. K. Rowling
  ...wrote in many cafés, especially Nicolson's Café (owned by her brother-in-law),<ref name=kirkbio>{{cite book|last=Kirk|first=Connie Ann|title=J.K. Rowlin ...sionals raised problems with First Minister [[Alex Salmond]]'s plans for a common research funding.<ref name="GuardBT" /> Rowling compared some Scottish Nati
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• Insurance policy
  ...lder, which determines the [[claim (legal)|claims]] which the insurer is [[law|legally]] required to pay. In exchange for an initial payment, known as the ...t/uploads/2011/07/522.pdf Reasonable Expectations Revisited]. ''Conn. Ins. Law Journal''.</ref> In several jurisdictions, including California, Wyoming,
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• Knock-for-knock agreement
  ..., analogous sense, for example, the following, cited in the "[[Laws of war|Law at War]]", from the [[US Army]] website [http://www.army.mil]: ...d forces.<ref>[http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/Vietnam/Law-War/law-05.htm LAW AT WAR: VIETNAM 1964-1973, Chapter 5: Claims Administration]</ref>
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• External risk
  ==In contract law== In [[contract law]], are risks that are produced by a non-human source and are beyond [[human
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• Surety bond
  ...ight Of Surety To Subrogation Against Third Party|website=scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu|access-date=2016-03-21}}</ref> {{cite book|last=Gallagher|first=Edward Graham|title=The Law of Suretyship|year=2000|publisher=American Bar Association|pages=27}}</ref>
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• Cell captive
  ...te and issue cell shares with respect to any of the cells. There may be a common board of directors for all cells or cells may have their own unique board.< •The Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008 (the “Law”) provides for the creation of the incorporated cell company. An ICC is a
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• Moral hazard
  ...1-19 |accessdate=2008-11-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|ssrn=1321666 |title=Common (Stock) Sense about Risk-Shifting and Bank Bailouts|publisher=SSRN.com |dat ...link= |year=1996 |title=On the Genealogy of Moral hazard |periodical=Texas Law Review |volume=75 |issue= |page=237 |url= |issn=0040-4411 |doi= }}</ref> an
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• Actuarial science
  ...rtantly, both the short and long term financial and economic trends. It is common with mergers and acquisitions that several pension plans have to be combine ...egree of accuracy how much each person in the group should contribute to a common fund assumed to earn a fixed rate of interest. The first person to demonstr
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• Insurance
  ...ritime-Law--800-BC.aspx|title=Lex Rhodia: The Ancient Ancestor of Maritime Law - 800 BC}}</ref> ...emiums from policyholders and paid the nominees of deceased members from a common fund.''</ref><ref>Amicable Society, ''The charters, acts of Parliament, and
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• Structured settlement
  ...settlements have become part of the statutory tort law of several [[common law]] countries including [[Australia]], [[Canada]], [[England]] and the [[Unit ...uctured Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgements |year=1986 |publisher= Law Journal Press |location= New York, NY |isbn=1-58852-037-4 |pages=1–36}}</
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• Structured settlement factoring transaction
  ...ode section 5891 and any applicable state structured settlement protection law. ...tlement Factoring? The Market in Tort Claims Has Arrived|journal=Wisconsin Law Review|volume=2002|page=859|url=https://litigation-essentials.lexisnexis.co
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• Insurance bond
  Due to [[tax law]]s they are a common form of investment in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] and some [[offshore financi
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• Adverse selection
  ...tion process is one part of [[underwriting]]. In many countries, insurance law incorporates an "utmost good faith" or ''[[uberrima fides]]'' doctrine, whi ...ts or his willingness-to-pay. Alternatively, models with interdependent or common values occur when the agent's type has a direct influence on the principal'
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• Condition of average
  ...f> '''''subject to average''''',<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lloyds.com/Common/Help/Glossary?page=2 |title=Average |work=Lloyd's Insurance Glossary |publi ...s of '''''total''''' destruction. Where partial destruction occurs (a more common occurrence than total destruction), ''Payout'' is pro rata in line with the
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• Insurance broker
  ...ones, and in most states, all insurance brokers generally are forbidden by law from providing their customers with rebates or inducements. ...rally has no contractual agreements with insurance carriers, and relies on common or direct methods of perfecting business transactions with insurance carrie
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• Extended warranty
  ...ious products, but [[automobile]]s and [[Small appliance|electronics]] are common examples. Warranties which are sold through retailers such as [[Best Buy]] [[Category:Contract law]]
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• Harvard University
  ...idence. This dual view of knowledge was in concert with the teachings of [[Common Sense Realism]] derived from Scottish philosophers [[Thomas Reid]] and [[Du ...ate School of Education|Graduate School of Education]] and the [[Cambridge Common]].
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• Brown University
  ...ed were doctoral 22 percent, master's 35 percent, medicine 28 percent, and law 14 percent.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> ...nistration.institutional-research/files/uploads/CDS_2012-2013_0.pdf |title=Common Data Set 2012-2013, Part C |publisher=Brown University}}</ref>
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• Steve Jobs
  ...activities.<ref name="sg" /> Although Jandali initially wanted to study [[law]], he eventually decided to study [[economics]] and [[political science]].< ...ocera|quote=While his health problems amounted to a good deal more than 'a common bug,' they weren't life-threatening and he doesn't have a recurrence of can
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• Jeff Bezos
  ...ements by the Trump administration, in favour of overturning the antitrust law known as the [[Paramount Decree]], have been predicted to help Amazon acqui ...inquiries: can he admire the person, can the person raise the [[Status quo|common standard]], and under what circumstances could the person become exemplary.
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• Donald Trump
  ...jared-kushner-justice-department.html |title=Jared Kushner, Trump's Son-in-Law, Is Cleared to Serve as Adviser |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=Jan ...to pay off their debts. With Trump or his company as a defendant, the most common type of case involved personal injury cases at his hotels. In cases where t
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• Life insurance
  ...are often written into the contract to limit the liability of the insurer; common examples are claims relating to suicide, fraud, war, riot, and civil commot ...sum payment, in the event of a specified occurrence. A common form—more common in years past—of a protection policy design is term insurance.
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• Health insurance
  ...A plans are not subject to state laws. ERISA plans are governed by federal law under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Labor (USDOL). The specific ...families. These changes require legislative approval. A bill to change the law has been introduced but was not passed by the Senate.<ref>{{cite web|url=ht
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• Home insurance
  ...'s not on the list below, you are not covered. This type of policy is most common in countries with developing insurance markets and as protection for [[occu ...eive coverage. Fortunately, the "broad form" is designed to cover the most common forms of property damage.
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• Aetna
  ...ont Senator Joe Lieberman for Accepting Insurance Company Money |publisher=Common Dreams |date=2009-11-05 |accessdate=2011-02-12}}</ref> From 2005 through 20 ...Aetna's Prudential Health Plan $100,000 for violating Georgia's prompt pay law by delaying claims payments. Aetna companies had been fined four previous t
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• Allstate
  ...the mid-1950s nearly every state had some sort of financial responsibility law on its books.<ref name="Encyclopedia" /> ...The series, filmed in the style of a television drama, depicts the cast in common situations facing teens with respect to driving ([[Texting while driving]]
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• Berkshire Hathaway
  ...le= Buffett’s Annual Letter: Berkshire Records $29 Billion Gain From Tax Law | date= February 24, 2018 |first1=Peter |last1=Eavis |first2=Stephen |last2 ...Omaha indirectly acquired $400 million of the [[Toronto]]-based company's common shares as he gave a lifeline to the embattled mortgage lender [[Home Capita
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• Farmers Insurance Group
  ...lion and became the sole stockholder of the company's 68 million shares of common stock.<ref name='LABJ 2005-08-22'/><ref name='NYT 1988-08-25'>{{cite news | ...ington (2013), the company was alleged to have failed to comply with state law by not paying "diminished value," which is the loss in value suffered by ce
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• GEICO
  ...ented switching to GEICO as an easy alternative to such endeavors with the common line ".... there's an easier way to save money." ...ehearing-bid-in-bad-faith-case |date=January 10, 2017 }}, David Langhorne. Law 360. October 1, 2015. Retrieved January 9, 2017</ref>
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• Knights of Columbus
  ...the law. The Knights of Columbus pledged an immediate $10,000 to fight the law and any additional funds necessary to defeat it.{{sfn|Kauffman|1982|p=283}} ...tal of $29&nbsp;million. During this time, the amount of money invested in common stock also increased.{{sfn|Kauffman|1982|p=378}}
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• MetLife
  ...Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act|2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law]] by proposing the application of an official label to MetLife as "[[System ...common and preferred stock were based on the closing price of MetLife’s common stock on October 29.<ref name=ALICOSTATS/> Upon completion of the purchase
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• Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
  ...repurchased by Nationwide Mutual in 2009. It had owned the majority of NFS common stock since it had gone public in 1997.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.natio ...ople to pledge to become [[Insurance|policyholders]]. The first [[Agency (law)|agents]] managed to recruit ten times that number, and on April 14, 1926,
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• The Travelers Companies
  ...s B common stock Securities Litigation|last=|first=|date=|website=Stanford Law School|accessdate=April 19, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://securiti ...nd trained its employees to act on behalf of those subsidiaries. This is a common risk management strategy used by U.S. insurance groups. If any one company
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• Investment
  ...law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp|website=The Avalon Project; Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy}}</ref> The investment principles of both of these investors have points in common with the [[Kelly criterion]] for money management.<ref>{{cite web|title=The
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• Bank of America
  ...estment]] of 7.25% ''[[per annum]]'' and provided the option to purchase [[common stock]] at a price of $18 per share.<ref>{{cite news|first=Caroline |last=S ...tle=Wachtell, Shearman, Cravath on Bank of America-Merrill Deal |publisher=Law.com |date=September 15, 2008 |accessdate=October 17, 2010}}</ref> Around th
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• Broker-dealer
  ...cial services]], a '''broker-dealer''' is a [[natural person]], [[company (law)|company]] or other organization that engages in the business of trading [[ UK securities law uses the term '''[[intermediary]]''' to refer to businesses involved in the
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• Mutual fund
  ...investment company|website=Legal Information Institute|publisher=[[Cornell Law School]]}}</ref> The characterization of a fund's income is unchanged when Stock, or equity, funds invest in [[common stock]]s. Stock funds may focus on a particular area of the stock market, s
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• Real estate
  {{Property law}} ...used in jurisdictions whose legal system is derived from English [[common law]], such as [[India]], the [[United Kingdom]], [[United States]], [[Canada]]
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• Net lease
  ...book|last1=Helewitz|first1=Jeffrey A.|title=Basic Real Estate and Property Law for Paralegals|edition=5th|date=2015|publisher=Wolters Kluwer|url=https://w ...nant is responsible for paying [[property tax]]es. These are generally not common.
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• NNN lease
  ...ften called the "three nets", are [[property taxes]], [[insurance]], and [[Common area maintenance charges|maintenance]].<ref name="womeninbusiness.about.com ==Common misconceptions==
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• Mortgage loan
  ...e mortgage lending|mortgages in general and their legal structure|Mortgage law|mortgage loans secured on ships|Ship mortgage|other uses|Mortgage (disambig ...se fails to abide by its terms. The word ''mortgage'' is derived from a "[[Law French]]" term used by [[Legal professions in England and Wales|English law
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• Real estate appraisal
  ...d definitions of value sought by a real estate appraisal. Some of the most common are: But the most common reason for value differing from price is that either the buyer or the selle
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• Real property
  {{Property law}} ...ures (also called [[Land improvement|improvements]] or [[Fixture (property law)|fixtures]]) integrated with or affixed to the land, including crops, build
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• Right to property
  ...tion and Revolution' (1965) [https://www.jstor.org/pss/1120512 65 Columbia Law Review 1]</ref> ...ast=Doebbler|first=Curtis|title=Introduction to International Human Rights Law|publisher=CD Publishing|year=2006|pages=141–142|url=https://books.google.
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• Specialized investment fund
  ...enlarging the distribution scope to “well-informed investors”. The SIF law significantly simplified the rules for setting up investment fund structure On 12 July 2013, the SIF regime was amended by the law on
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• Subprime mortgage crisis
  ...t |title=Get the Report: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission |website=fcic.law.stanford.edu |accessdate=5 October 2017}}</ref> Two [[proximate cause]]s we ...cret Liens and the Financial Crisis of 2008 |publisher=American Bankruptcy Law Journal, Vol. 83 |page=253 |year=2009 |accessdate=2012-11-20}}</ref> Econom
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• Dubai
  ...ing levels some thought imprudent, Sheikh Rashid approached his brother in law, the Ruler of Qatar, for a loan to build the first bridge crossing Dubai's ...], [[caracal]], [[fennec fox|desert fox]], falcon and [[Arabian oryx]] are common in Dubai's desert. Dubai is on the migration path between Europe, Asia and
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• Kazakhstan
  ...n that provide safe haven for many rare and endangered plants and animals. Common plants are ''[[Astragalus]]'', ''[[Gagea]]'', ''[[Allium]]'', ''[[Carex]]'' Common mammals include the [[wolf]], [[red fox]], [[corsac fox]], [[moose]], [[arg
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• Matching
  * [[Matching (graph theory)]], in graph theory, a set of edges without common vertices * [[Matching law]], in behaviorism and learning, the matching law suggests that an animal's response rate to a scenario will be proportionate
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• Confounding
  [[File:Confounding.PNG|center|Causal diagram of Gender as common cause of Drug use and Recovery]] ...are called "Back-Door admissible" and may include variables which are not common causes of X and Y, but merely proxies thereof.
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• Maximum likelihood estimation
  ..., often in idealized form, of the process that generated the data. It is a common aphorism in statistics that ''[[all models are wrong]]''. Thus, true consis By the [[uniform law of large numbers]], the dominance condition together with continuity establ
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• Anecdotal evidence
  A common way anecdotal evidence becomes unscientific is through [[fallacy|fallacious ==Law==
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• MediaWiki
  ...articles when the user hovers over links, and also provides shortcuts for common maintenance tasks.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip ...oolbar]] has also been created to make it easier to create citations using common templates. MediaWiki has some extensions that are well-suited for academia,
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• Wikipedia
  ...mmit vandalism by removing content or entirely blanking a given page. Less common types of vandalism, such as the deliberate addition of plausible but false ...contributors avoid a [[tragedy of the commons]] (behaving contrary to the common good) by internalizing benefits. They do this by experiencing [[Flow (psych
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• United States
  ...gov |author= |authorlink= |vauthors= |date=August 12, 1999 |website=Public Law 105-225 |publisher=uscode.house.gov |pages=112 Stat. 1263 |language= |quote ...unofficial, language in [[Maine]] and [[Louisiana]], while [[New Mexico]] law grants [[Spanish language|Spanish]] a special status.{{sfn|Cobarrubias|1983
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• Business plan
  ...t-practice knowledge from every first-semester course." It is increasingly common for business schools to use business plan projects to provide an opportunit The format of a business plan depends on its presentation context. It is common for businesses, especially start-ups, to have three or four formats for the
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• Harvard Research
  ...idence. This dual view of knowledge was in concert with the teachings of [[Common Sense Realism]] derived from Scottish philosophers [[Thomas Reid]] and [[Du ...ate School of Education|Graduate School of Education]] and the [[Cambridge Common]].
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• Chief executive officer
  ...top executives typically had technical degrees in science, engineering, or law.<ref>{{citation |first=Marianne |last=Bertrand |title=CEOs |journal=[[Annua ...executives are given different titles in different organizations, but one common category of subordinate executive, if the CEO is also the president, is the
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• Mark Zuckerberg
  ...5, 2008, the case settled and Facebook agreed to transfer over 1.2 million common shares and pay $20 million in cash.<ref>{{Cite news |author=Logged in as cl ...nterpol]] to have Zuckerberg and the three others arrested for [[blasphemy law|blasphemy]]. On May 19, 2010, Facebook's website was temporarily blocked in
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• Author
  ...uthorship]] can be made provided some criteria are met. In the [[copyright law]]s of various jurisdictions, there is a necessity for little flexibility re ...tual property law can be, since such fiction may also involved [[trademark law]] (e.g. for names of characters in media franchises), [[likeness rights]] (
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• Writer
  ...a range of other techniques such as [[alliteration]] and [[assonance]]. A common theme is love and its vicissitudes. Shakespeare's famous love story ''[[Rom ...ecisions or politicians, although human vices such as [[greed]] are also a common and universal subject. Philosopher [[Voltaire]] wrote a satire about optimi
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• Storytelling
  ...place / he disguises himself / his disguise fools everybody / except for a common person of little account (a [[crone]], a tavern maid or a woodcutter) / who * Bruner, Jerome S. ''Making Stories: Law, Literature, Life''. New York: [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]. 2002. {{ISBN|
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• List of narrative techniques
  ...quibble in ''The Merchant of Venice'': Portia saves Antonio in a court of law by pointing out that the agreement called for a pound of flesh, but no bloo ...play]] || Sounds of words used as an aspect of the work. || A [[pun]] is a common example of word play.
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• Theory
  ...o.sunysb.edu/esp/files/scientific-method.html }}</ref> in contrast to more common uses of the word "theory" that imply that something is unproven or speculat ...cal logic]]. Theories may be expressed mathematically, symbolically, or in common language, but are generally expected to follow principles of [[reason|ratio
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• Wikipedia in culture
  ...s]] during the feast in Latveria that even he had not even known what a "[[Common periwinkle|winkle]]" was until he looked it up in Wikipedia. | ''[[Law & Order]]'':
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• English Wikipedia
  ...e="SSRN">{{cite journal|title=Wikitruth Through Wikiorder |journal=[[Emory Law Journal]]|year=2010|first=David A.|last=Hoffman|author2=Salil Mehra |volume ...</ref><ref name=Jemielniak2014>{{cite book|author=Dariusz Jemielniak|title=Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?
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• List of state universities in the United States
  *The list includes some of the more common academic nicknames or acronyms used for certain colleges or universities, e ...hat grant first-professional doctorates only (e.g., [[medical school]]s, [[law school]]s, or [[Schools of veterinary medicine|veterinary schools]]) that a
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• College and university rankings
  ...] advocates for the beneficial role that [[higher education]] could be the common good of social leverage and educating skills to equip everyone participated ...scores are [[Normalization (statistics)|normalized]] to place them onto a common scale. The normalized scores are then averaged to arrive at a final RPI.
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• Delivery order
  {{Admiralty law}} ...of Annual Meetings." Uniform Law Conference of Canada. Aug. 1995. Uniform Law Conference of Canada. Accessed 5 July 2007 (http://www.ulcc.ca/en/poam2/ind
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• Memorandum of association
  ...stan, Sri Lanka, and [[Tanzania]] and is also used in many of the [[common law]] [[jurisdiction]]s of the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]].<ref>ht *[[Articles of association (law)]]
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• Purchase order
  ...nature. Yet despite the nature of the purchase order as a contract, it is common to accompany the acceptance of a purchase order with a legal document such ...-based, but rather transmitted electronically over the [[Internet]]. It is common for electronic purchase orders to be used to buy goods or services of any t
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• Ivy League
  A common [[folk etymology]] attributes the name to the Roman numeral for four (IV), ...a closer bond of confidence and cooperation and toward the formation of a common front against the threat of a breakdown in the ideals of amateur sport in t
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• Predictive analytics
  ...detection, manufacturing, healthcare, and government operations including law enforcement. ...ised]] training and reinforcement learning, with supervised being the most common one.
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• Stephen Barth
  ...dustry, where he focuses on making hospitality law a specialty area of the law.<ref name="test">[http://www.stephenbarth.com/files/StephenBarthBiography20 * Juris Doctorate in Law, [[Texas Tech University]], 1984
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• Bibliography of Thomas Jefferson
  ...1, virtually all biographical accounts for Jefferson relied on general and common knowledge gained from official records and public writings and newspapers. ...nder the tutelage of a respected Virginia attorney (there were no official law schools in America at the time), and began working as a lawyer in 1767. As
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• Columbia University
  [[File:columbia law madison.gif|thumb|upright|The [[Gothic Revival]] Law School building on the Madison Avenue campus]] ...rk Times|title=Columbia, Michigan and Connecticut Among 25 Colleges to Add Common Application|date=March 23, 2010|accessdate=April 11, 2011|first=Jacques|las
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• Cornell University
  ...name=CDS_B>{{cite web|url=http://irp.dpb.cornell.edu/common-data-set|title=Common Data Set 2015-2016, Part B|publisher=Cornell University|accessdate=August 2 ...ans for the campus. For example, in one of the earliest plans, [[Frederick Law Olmsted]], the designer of [[Central Park]], proposed a "grand terrace" ove
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• Dartmouth College
  ...itle=Dartmouth College|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/education/colleges-us/dartmouth-college |publisher=Encyclopedia.com|quote=" ...lowing large endowments such as the $10,000 given by Dartmouth alumnus and law professor [[John Ordronaux (doctor)|John Ordronaux]].<ref name="Many Beques
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• Princeton University
  ...ty_enrollment_sta/CDS_2016-2017.pdf |publisher=Princeton University |title=Common Data Set 2016-2017}}</ref> ...s, in [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania]], from 1726 until 1746 and it was once common to assert a formal connection between it and the College of New Jersey, whi
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• University of Pennsylvania
  ...f the trustees in 1753 during which some of the Trustees "desired to get a Common Seal engraved for the Use of [the] Corporation". However, it was not until ...unications), located in the Annenberg School; Biddle (Law), located in the Law School; Biomedical, located adjacent to the Robert Wood Johnson Pavilion of
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• Yale University
  ...udying ancient [[Bible|Biblical texts]] in their original language (as was common in other schools), requiring all freshmen to study Hebrew (in contrast to H ...gher education in the United States, balancing change with tradition was a common challenge because no one could afford to be completely modern or completely
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• Jesus
  ...Latin ''anno Domini'' ("in the year of the Lord"), and the alternative "[[Common Era|CE]]", are based on the approximate birth date of Jesus.<ref name="AD"> When Jesus is presented as a baby in the temple per Jewish Law, a man named [[Simeon (Gospel of Luke)|Simeon]] says to Mary and Joseph tha
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• God
  ...ant differences between religions, the term remains an English translation common to all. The same holds for Hebrew ''[[El (god)|El]]'', but [[names of God i ...ome as an experience of ecstasy which is beyond all descriptions. The most common usage of the word "Waheguru" is in the greeting Sikhs use with each other:
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• Old Testament
  ...mon [[Protestantism|Protestant]] canon comprises 39 books. The 39 books in common to all the Christian canons correspond to the 24 books of the Tanakh, with ...e [[biblical covenant]] (contract) between the two, received by Moses. The law codes in books such as [[Book of Exodus|Exodus]] and especially [[Deuterono
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• Good Friday
  A common [[folk etymology]] incorrectly claims "Good Friday" is a corruption of "God ...owing his arrest, Jesus was taken to the house of [[Annas]], the father-in-law of the [[Cohen Gadol|high priest]], [[Caiaphas]]. There he was interrogated
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• John the Baptist
  ...d violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John, and if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah wh ...acknowledged the justice of God. But the Pharisees and the students of the law, having rejected John's baptism, frustrated God's purpose in regard to them
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• Islam
  ...ress is on the first syllable) {{IPAslink|ə}} (Merriam Webster). The most common are {{IPAc-en|ˈ|ɪ|z|l|əm|,_|ˈ|ɪ|s|l|əm|,_|ɪ|z|ˈ|l|ɑː|m|,_|ɪ|s|ˈ ...rs of Islam]], which are obligatory acts of worship, and following Islamic law (''[[sharia]]''), which touches on virtually every aspect of life and socie
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• Hinduism
  ...of Hinduism as ''[[Sanātanī|{{IAST|Sanātana Dharma}}]]'', "the eternal law" or the "eternal way".<ref>{{harvnb|Bowker|2000}}; {{harvnb|Harvey|2001|p=x ...f identity, a sense of coherence in a shared context and of inclusion in a common framework and horizon".{{sfn|Halbfass|1991|p=15}}
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• Buddhism
  ...hs'' – By Bhikkhu Bodhi]</ref>{{refn|group=note|This explanation is more common in commentaries on the Four Noble Truths within the [[Theravada]] tradition ...2013|pp=40–41}} In the Buddhist traditions, life aspects affected by the law of karma in past and current births of a being include the form of rebirth,
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• Baptism
  ...Didache 7 if there was not sufficient water for immersion.)}}</ref> Other common forms of baptism now in use include pouring water three times on the forehe ...ivedate= February 21, 2009 | deadurl = no}}</ref> As evidenced also in the common Christian practice of [[infant baptism]], Christians universally regarded b
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• Confirmation
  ...narily by a bishop, only when the child reaches the [[Age of reason (canon law)|age of reason]] or early adolescence. Among those Catholics who practice t ...bsite=www.intratext.com|accessdate=6 October 2017}}</ref> In addition, the law itself confers the same faculty on the following:
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• Marriage
  ...ween them and any resulting biological or adopted children and [[Affinity (law)|affinity]] (in-laws and other family through marriage).<ref>{{cite book |l ...ren's rights (both female and male children), and because of international law.<ref>[https://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/ Country Reports on Human
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• Jerry Falwell
  ...troversy, the Religious Right found its voice and its power. It also found common cause with political conservatives.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2 ...us liberals in place of the racist, anti-Semitic or anti-Catholic rhetoric common among Southern Fundamentalist preachers but increasingly condemned as [[hat
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• Christianity
  ...s)|professions]] of faith, in addition to the [[Bible]], generally hold in common that Jesus [[Passion of Jesus|suffered]], [[Crucifixion of Jesus|died]], wa ...terior.asp?mid=1806 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=14 January 2006 |title=Our Common Heritage as Christians |publisher=The United Methodist Church |accessdate=3
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• Bible
  By the 2nd century [[Common Era|BCE]], Jewish groups began calling the books of the Bible the "scriptur ...as by [[Willis Barnstone]] – W. W. Norton & Company. p. 647</ref> <!--A common hypothesis among biblical scholars today is that the first major comprehens
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• New Testament
  ...Testament is a collection of Christian works written in the [[Koine Greek|common (Koine) Greek]] language of the first century, at different times by variou ...century of the [[Christian Era]], in Greek, which was the [[Lingua franca|common language]] of the [[Eastern Mediterranean]] from the [[Wars of Alexander th
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• Artificial intelligence
  ...storytelling device]]s in antiquity,<ref name="AI in myth"/> and have been common in fiction, as in [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein]]'' or [[Karel Čapek ...ed"/> The success was due to increasing computational power (see [[Moore's law]]), greater emphasis on solving specific problems, new ties between AI and
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