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Shizuoka

(Encyclopedia)Shizuoka shĭzo͞oˈôkä [key], city (1990 pop. 472,196), capital of Shizuoka prefecture, E central Honshu, Japan, on Suruga Bay. It is a port and communications center and is known for its green tea...

Perth, city, Australia

(Encyclopedia)Perth, city (2016 pop. 21,797, Greater Perth 2016 pop. 1,943,858), capital of Western Australia, SW Australia, on the Swan River estuary. Fremantle is Perth's port. Perth is a communications and trans...

Civil Aeronautics Board

(Encyclopedia)Civil Aeronautics Board: see Federal Aviation Administration. ...

Fannie Mae

(Encyclopedia)Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. ...

insider trading

(Encyclopedia)insider trading, stock market transactions made with knowledge of nonpublic information about corporate activity. In the United States, it has been illegal since 1934. The Securities and Exchange Comm...

Carroll, James

(Encyclopedia)Carroll, James, 1854–1907, American bacteriologist and army surgeon, b. Woolwich, England, M.D. Univ. of Maryland, 1891. He went to Canada at 15 and later joined the U.S. army. A member of the Yello...

excise taxes

(Encyclopedia)excise taxes, governmental levies on specific goods produced and consumed inside a country. They differ from tariffs, which usually apply only to foreign-made goods, and from sales taxes, which typica...

Americanization

(Encyclopedia)Americanization, term used to describe the movement during the first quarter of the 20th cent. whereby the immigrant in the United States was induced to assimilate American speech, ideals, traditions,...

Freddie Mac

(Encyclopedia)Freddie Mac: see Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. ...

Ginnie Mae

(Encyclopedia)Ginnie Mae: see under Federal National Mortgage Association. ...