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Bay Village

(Encyclopedia)Bay Village, city (2020 pop. 16,163), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; inc. 1903. It is a residential community with some light industry. ...

sharecropping

(Encyclopedia)sharecropping, an agricultural system in which a landowner allows a tenant to use their land in return for a share of the crop produced. In the United S...

student movements

(Encyclopedia)student movements, designation given to the ideas and activities of student groups involved in social protest. Historically, student movements have been in existence almost as long as universities the...

Woodridge

(Encyclopedia)Woodridge, village (1990 pop. 26,256), Du Page co., NE Ill.; inc. 1959. It is a growing residential community W of Chicago, in a wooded and farm area. ...

CARICOM

(Encyclopedia)CARICOM: see Caribbean Community and Common Market. ...

Southeast Asia

(Encyclopedia)Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on t...

United Way of America

(Encyclopedia)United Way of America: see community chest. ...

Clapham, Sir John Harold

(Encyclopedia)Clapham, Sir John Harold klăpˈəm [key], 1873–1946, English economic historian. He was lecturer, professor and administrator at Cambridge from 1908 to 1943. Outstanding among his many works on Bri...

living wage

(Encyclopedia)living wage, the hourly wage that, at a minimum, supports a standard of living above the poverty level in a given locality. It differs from the minimum wage, which often provides a less than adequate ...

clearing

(Encyclopedia)clearing, in banking, the periodic settling of bankers' claims against each other, for which local banks establish clearinghouse associations. Clearinghouses are said to have existed in Florence by a....