A power outage (also known as a power cut, power failure, power loss, or blackout) is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area.

A person who looks casually through books or magazines or at things for sale, an animal that feeds mainly on high-growing vegetation or a program with a graphical user interface for displaying

Web caching is the caching of web documents (e.g., HTML pages, images) to reduce bandwidth usage, server load, and perceived lag. A web cache stores copies of documents passing through it; subsequent

Survey objects casually, esp. goods for sale, scan through a book or magazine superficially to gain an impression of the contents, read or survey (data files), typically via a network or (of

Our Common Future, also known as the Brundtland Report, from the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) was published in 1987.

A list of classification of commodities for Customs purposes which is also used as a basis for their freight tariff by many shipping lines. Each commodity has a unique code known as

A company whose valuation greatly exceeds that suggested by its fundamentals. The first well-documented bubble company was the South Sea Company, which caused the South Sea Bubble in 1720. A bubble company

Common reference for million. See also TON, YARD.

A cooperative arrangement whereby individuals are paired or teamed up and assume responsibility for one another’s instruction, productivity, welfare, or safety.

A low-cost carrier or low-cost airline (also known as a no-frills, discount or budget carrier or airline) is an airline that generally has lower fares and fewer comforts. To make up for

Estimates of government spending on various sectors during the year, together with an estimate of the income in the form of tax revenues. These estimates contain an estimate of Fiscal Deficit and

Either a heavily restricted discounted fare of a normal airline or the normal budget.

A meeting that is usually open to the general public to discuss a business or government budget. Individuals from the community can openly ask questions and they will be answered by the

The primary deficit is defined as the difference between current government spending and total current revenue from all types of taxes.

Refer to Budgeted Cost Of Work Performed.

In a fiber optic cable, a buffer is one type of component used to encapsulate one or more optical fibers for the purpose of providing such functions as mechanical isolation, protection from

The strategically placed inventories which protect the material flow and whose consumption set the schedules in a pull system.

A neutral area serving to separate hostile forces or nations.

A meal consisting of several dishes from which guests serve themselves or a room or counter in a station, hotel, or other public building selling light meals or snacks.

Conceal a miniature microphone in (a room or telephone) in order to monitor or record someone’s conversations, a harmful microorganism, as a bacterium or virus or an insect of a large order