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  • 51China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …

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  • 52supernova — /sooh peuhr noh veuh/, n., pl. supernovas, supernovae / vee/. Astron. 1. the explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse, during which the star s luminosity increases by as much as 20 magnitudes and most of the star s mass is… …

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  • 53Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview        Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …

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  • 54tre|men´dous|ness — tre|men|dous «trih MEHN duhs», adjective. 1. dreadful; very severe; awful: »The army suffered a tremendous defeat. SYNONYM(S): frightful, horrible. 2. Informal. very great; enormous; immense: »a tremendous sum, a wrestler of tremendous strength.… …

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  • 55tre|men´dous|ly — tre|men|dous «trih MEHN duhs», adjective. 1. dreadful; very severe; awful: »The army suffered a tremendous defeat. SYNONYM(S): frightful, horrible. 2. Informal. very great; enormous; immense: »a tremendous sum, a wrestler of tremendous strength.… …

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  • 56tre|men|dous — «trih MEHN duhs», adjective. 1. dreadful; very severe; awful: »The army suffered a tremendous defeat. SYNONYM(S): frightful, horrible. 2. Informal. very great; enormous; immense: »a tremendous sum, a wrestler of tremendous strength. That is a… …

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  • 57ECONOMIC AFFAIRS — THE PRE MANDATE (LATE OTTOMAN) PERIOD Geography and Borders In September 1923 a new political entity was formally recognized by the international community. Palestine, or Ereẓ Israel as Jews have continued to refer to it for 2,000 years,… …

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  • 58JUDEO-ARABIC LITERATURE — JUDEO ARABIC LITERATURE, written in Arabic by Jews for Jews. It is written in an idiom which is linguistically closer to the spoken form of Arabic than is the idiom used in Muslim literature. It may plausibly be assumed that, prior to the rise of …

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  • 59ZIONISM — This article is arranged according to the following outline: the word and its meaning forerunners ḤIBBAT ZION ROOTS OF ḤIBBAT ZION background to the emergence of the movement the beginnings of the movement PINSKER S AUTOEMANCIPATION settlement… …

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  • 60USS Thresher (SS-200) — USS|Thresher|SS 200, a Tambor class submarine, was the first United States Navy ship to be named for the thresher shark. Her keel was laid down 27 May 1939 at the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Connecticut. She was launched on 27 March 1940… …

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