KYOTO PROTOCOL
Industrialized countries excluding the US agree to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Negotiated in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan.
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Industrialized countries excluding the US agree to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Negotiated in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan.
Software named after the Muppet frog character in the children’s educational program, Sesame Street. Controls data exchanges between PCs and mainframe computers. It is an asynchronous file-transfer protocol, largely replaced by internet
Typically employed in managerial or supervisory level employee training. Determining the level of performance required, time taken, quality of outcome, and total job or project quality by the study of a set
Parents usually dip into retirement monies to offset extra bills when an adult child returns home unable to live because the expense is too great.
Expressed in kilograms of force as a ratio of applied force. Penetration depth is measured in millimeters. Material hardness test of impact depth, not area. A pointed rhombohedral diamond is a highly
Computer operating system nucleus. Manages core operations and hardware resources allocation. Also refer to shell.
Alternative to a private branch exchange (PBX) phone system, smaller, cheaper, but less flexible. Allows a caller to directly select outgoing lines, incoming calls, or use intercom and conference facilities via several
Cancelling an investment transaction prior to the system receiving its posting.
A copyright, patent, other documentation that generates income as intellectual capital. See, e.g., How to Get a Copyright: A Step-By-Step Guide
Res mobiles. In the civil law. Movable things; things which may be transported from one place to another, without injury to their substance and form. Things corresponding with the chattels personal of
A measure of wine, oil, etc., containing eighteen gallons and a half. Cowell.
An abbreviation for “King’s Bench,” (g. v.)
A Mohammedan judge or magistrate in the East Indies, appointed originally by the court at Delhi, to administer justice according to their written law. Under the British authorities their judicial functions ceased,
In the Isle of Man, are the twenty- four chief commoners, who form the local legislature. X Steph. Comm. 99. In old English law. A guardian, warden, or keeper.
Barristers or ser- jeants who have been called within the bar and selected to be the king’s counsel. They answer iu some measure to the advoeati fusel, or advocates of the revenue,
In English law. An officer in the royal household who has jurisdiction and cognizance of offenses committed within the household and verge, and BL.LAW DICT.(2D ED.)
An abbreviation for “King’s Counsel.”
The right to demand money for the privilege of anchoring a vessel in a harbor; also the money so paid.
A guardian, warden, or keeper. Mon. Angl. torn. 2, p. 71
When several persons are charged with a crime, and one of them gives evidence against liis accomplices, on the promise of being granted a pardon, he is said to be admitted kiug’s