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5 days ago · noun. double dip· ping. : the usually illicit practice of accepting income from two mutually exclusive sources (as from a government pension and a government salary or from two insurers for the same loss)
1 day ago · Palestinian Authority (PA), governing body of the Palestinian autonomous regions of the West Bank and Gaza Strip established in 1994 as part of the Oslo Accords peace agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) ( see two-state solution ). Following years of hostility, secret meetings held in Norway in 1993 between ...
3 days ago · Capitalism is characterized by private ownership of the factors of production. Decision making is decentralized and rests with the owners of the factors of production. Their decision making is coordinated by the market, which provides the necessary information. Material incentives are used to motivate participants.
3 days ago · noun. 1. : the actual aim or purpose especially of the framers of the U.S. Constitution. 2. : a conservative theory in constitutional law: only those guarantees intended by the framers and set forth in the text of the Constitution are valid compare judicial restraint.
3 days ago · Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
10 hours ago · The party held on to control of the House of Representatives, but its majority shrank significantly. Democratic Party, one of the two major political parties, alongside the Republican Party, in the United States. The Democratic Party underwent a dramatic ideological change over its history, transforming from a pro-slavery party during the 19th ...
4 days ago · v. t. e. In representative electoral systems, gerrymandering ( / ˈdʒɛriˌmændərɪŋ /, originally / ˈɡɛriˌmændərɪŋ /) [1] [2] is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries with the intent to create undue advantage for a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.
