Megalopolis (redirect from Megapolis (term))
scale thinking about urban patterns and growth. The term comes from the Greek word megalo-polis (big city), and has specific geographic definitions dating...
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A term limit is a legal restriction on the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. When term limits are found in presidential...
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LTE (telecommunication) (redirect from Long Term Evolution)
In telecommunications, long-term evolution (LTE) is a standard for wireless broadband communication for mobile devices and data terminals, based on the...
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A term of office, electoral term, or parliamentary term is the length of time a person serves in a particular elected office. In many jurisdictions there...
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Bodega (store) (redirect from Bodega (New York City))
and the later New York City term evolved from Puerto Rican and Cuban usage for "small grocery". (In contemporary Cuba, the term now usually connotes a...
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early printed uses of the term was in the early 1980s, when Taki Theodoracopulos, a wealthy Greek living in New York City, wrote a newspaper column titled...
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Submarine sandwich (category Cuisine of New York City)
the area were using the term hoagie. Listings in Pittsburgh show hoagies arriving in 1961 and becoming widespread in that city by 1966. Former Philadelphia...
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Michaelmas (/ˈmɪkəlməs/ MIK-əl-məs) term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the...
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York City in the daytime, in contrast to Gotham, sometimes used to describe New York City at night. America's City – a term positioning New York City as...
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A contractual term is "any provision forming part of a contract". Each term gives rise to a contractual obligation, the breach of which may give rise...
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Lewis, Neil (5 June 1989). "Short-Term Chancellor, Long-Term Goals". The New York Times. The Encyclopedia of New York City. New York: Yale University Press...
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the city and for seeing that all laws and ordinances are enforced.[citation needed] As the result of a 1991 referendum in Houston, the two-year term was...
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Javanese term that literally means "outer islands". In Indonesia, it is generally taken to mean the Indonesian Archipelago. Outside of Indonesia, the term has...
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A city proper is the geographical area contained within city limits. The term proper is not exclusive to cities; it can describe the geographical area...
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make New York City the global leader in addressing the climate crisis. As an oceanic port city, New York City is vulnerable to long-term manifestations...
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interest; having broad interests, or wide sympathies; inclusive, inviting. The term has been incorporated into the name of the largest Christian communion, the...
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During the Age of Exploration in early modern Europe, variants of the Latin term cafer (pl. cafri) were adopted in reference to non-Muslim Bantu peoples even...
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clubhouse, used as leasing offices for the community. Brownstone: a New York City term for a rowhouse: see rowhouse. Bedsit: a British expression (short for...
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A city centre is the commercial, cultural and often the historical, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used...
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and female, young and old. In recent years, however, this meaning of the term has fallen out of common usage, except within Chinese Communist Party (CCP)...
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century that this term was used in relation to Chinese martial arts by the Chinese community. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term "kung-fu" as "a...
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Yield curve (redirect from Term structure of interest rates)
results when short-term and long-term yields are equal and medium-term yields are higher than those of the short-term and long-term. A flat curve sends...
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The term inner city has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often...
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were dissolved when the city consolidated in 1898, along with all city, town, and village governments within each county. The term borough was adopted to...
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structured will prevent us from obtaining the long-term goals we have for the club." Birmingham City's honours include the following: League Second Division...
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A city is a human settlement of a notable size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small...
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since women joined the city's electorate in 1917. Prior to the election, the New York City Council had voted to extend the city's term limits, permitting...
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city that never sleeps And find I'm a number one, top of the list... Although New York City is the most prominently recognized city termed "The City That...
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Orc (slang) (redirect from Orc (military slang term))
used the term to as a pejorative for Russian forces. During the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Ukrainians began to massively use the term "orcs" in...
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Hilary term is the second academic term of the University of Oxford and Trinity College Dublin. It runs from January to March and is so named because the...
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