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  • 41African National Congress — ANC redirects here. For other uses, see ANC (disambiguation). Tripartite Alliance redirects here. For the envisioned Anglo French Soviet alliance of 1939, see Tripartite military talks. For defunct political party in Trinidad and Tobago, see… …

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  • 42extravagant — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. profuse, prodigal, lavish, excessive, extreme; wasteful, profligate, rampant, wild; bombastic, fantastic; high, exorbitant, unreasonable; unreal, flighty, visionary, absurd, fanciful, grotesque. See …

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  • 43Great American streetcar scandal — The Great American Streetcar Scandal [It has also been called the General Motors streetcar conspiracy and the National City Lines conspiracy by critics of those companies.] is a conspiracy theory according to which streetcar systems throughout… …

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  • 44profligate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wanton, reckless, wild, intemperate; extravagant, wasteful. n. roué, rake, libertine, lecher, reprobate; wastrel, spendthrift, squanderer, playboy. See waste, impurity, evildoer. Ant., economical.… …

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  • 45prodigal — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. lavish, extravagant, squandering; see wasteful . See Synonym Study at profuse . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [PROD uh gul] extremely wasteful or extravagant. Joe s prodigal grandson spent his… …

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  • 46profuse — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. abundant, extravagant, lavish, liberal, prodigal, bountiful, overflowing, luxuriant, lush, plentiful, copious, prolific, in profusion, generous, free, munificent, unstinting, profligate, wasteful, overliberal,… …

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  • 47Austrian Business Cycle Theory — The Austrian business cycle theory is the Austrian School s explanation of the phenomenon of business cycles (or credit cycles ). Austrian economists assert that inherently damaging and ineffective central bank policies are the predominant cause… …

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  • 48Critique of capitalism — Capitalism has been critiqued from many perspectives during its history. Criticisms range from people who disagree with the principles of capitalism in its entirety, to those who disagree with particular outcomes of capitalism. Among those… …

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  • 49Mike Granatt — Mike Granatt, CB, is a public relations and communications professional, formerly a senior British civil servant, and the first head of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat of the Cabinet Office in 2001, the same year he was appointed a Companion… …

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  • 50Mottainai — Gleaning of The Gleaners represents one aspect of mottainai (Jean François Millet, 1857). Mottainai (もったいない, 勿体無い …

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