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excess profits tax
(Encyclopedia)excess profits tax, levy on any profit above a standard level. Chiefly a wartime phenomenon, it is intended to increase revenue during periods of distress and to prevent businessmen from taking unfair...common law
(Encyclopedia)common law, system of law that prevails in England and in countries colonized by England. The name is derived from the medieval theory that the law administered by the king's courts represented the co...Civil Aeronautics Board
(Encyclopedia)Civil Aeronautics Board: see Federal Aviation Administration. ...Fannie Mae
(Encyclopedia)Fannie Mae: see Federal National Mortgage Association. ...numeration
(Encyclopedia)numeration, in mathematics, process of designating numbers according to any particular system; the number designations are in turn called numerals. In any place value system of numeration, a base numb...Freddie Mac
(Encyclopedia)Freddie Mac: see Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation. ...Ginnie Mae
(Encyclopedia)Ginnie Mae: see under Federal National Mortgage Association. ...Du Pont, Pete
(Encyclopedia) Du Pont, Pete (Pierre Samuel du Pont IV), 1935-2021, Wilmington, Del, Princeton Univ. (Mech. Engr., 1956); Harvard Law School (J.D., 1963). Du Pont wa...Hopper, Grace
(Encyclopedia)Hopper, Grace, 1906–92, American computer scientist, b. New York City as Grace Brewster Murray. She was educated at Vassar College and Yale (Ph.D., 1934). After teaching at Vassar (1931–1943), she...Reines, Frederick
(Encyclopedia)Reines, Frederick, 1918–99, American physicist, b. Paterson, N.J., Ph.D. New York Univ., 1944. He was a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1944–59), a professor at Case Institute of Tec...Browse by Subject
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