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  • 101Nursing home residents' rights — Rights Theoretical distinctions Natural and legal rights Claim rights and liberty rights Negative and positive rights Individual an …

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  • 102financial — fi•nan•cial [[t]fɪˈnæn ʃəl, faɪ [/t]] adj. 1) pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary 2) of or pertaining to those commonly engaged in dealing with money and credit • Etymology: 1760–70 fi•nan′cial•ly, adv. syn: financial, fiscal,… …

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  • 103Charles Cooley — Charles Horton Cooley (born August 17, 1864, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. died May 8, 1929, Ann Arbor) was an American sociologist and the son of Thomas M. Cooley. He studied and went on to teach economics and sociology at the University of Michigan …

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  • 104Missouri v. Holland — Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 29, 1918 Decided March 6, 1920 …

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  • 105Criminal Law Act 1977 — The Criminal Law Act 1977[1] Parliament of the United Kingdom Long title An Act to amend the law of England and Wales with respect to criminal conspiracy …

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  • 106Abraham Lincoln: A Plea for Compensated Emancipation — ▪ Primary Source              Compensated emancipation was a scheme to allow the government to free the slaves and reimburse slave owners. The Republican platform of 1860 recognized it as a desirable solution to the slavery issue. President… …

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  • 107legacy — leg·a·cy / le gə sē/ n pl cies [Medieval Latin legatio, from Latin legare to bequeath]: a gift of property by will; specif: a gift of personal property by will: bequest see also ademption compare devise conjoint leg …

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  • 108profit — prof·it n 1: gain in excess of expenditures: as a: the excess of the selling price of goods over their cost b: net income from a business, investment, or capital appreciation compare earnings, loss …

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  • 109peculiar — [15] The etymological notion underlying peculiar is of ‘not being shared with others’, of being ‘one’s own alone’. It was borrowed from Latin pecūliāris ‘of private property’, a derivative of pecūlium ‘private property’, which in turn was based… …

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  • 110monetary — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pecuniary, financial, fiscal; see commercial 1 . See Synonym Study at financial . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. pecuniary, financial, capital, fiscal. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Of or relating to finances… …

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