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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Capital letters

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    In article text, do not use a capital letter after a hyphen except for terms that would ordinarily be capitalized in running prose, such as proper names (e.g. demonyms and brand names): Graeco-Roman and Mediterranean-style, but not Gandhi-Like. Letters used as designations are treated as names for this purpose: a size-A drill bit.

  3. Etiquette Guidelines for the Newly Hired - AOL

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    You got hired, maybe in one of the 150,000 jobs just created. However, many of your former co-workers, neighbors, and even family members are still unemployed. Clearly, there's a need for a book ...

  4. Hyphen - Wikipedia

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    The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. [1]The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (en dash –, em dash — and others), which are wider, or with the minus sign −, which is also wider and usually drawn a little higher to match the crossbar in the plus sign +.

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style - Wikipedia

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    Avoid adjacent sets of brackets. Either put the parenthetical phrases in one set separated by semicolons, or rewrite: Avoid: Nikifor Grigoriev (c. 1885 – 1919) (also known as Matvii Hryhoriiv) was a Ukrainian insurgent leader. Better: Nikifor Grigoriev (c. 1885 – 1919; also known as Matvii Hryhoriiv) was a Ukrainian insurgent leader.

  6. Hyphenated American - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the term hyphenated American refers to the use of a hyphen (in some styles of writing) between the name of an ethnicity and the word American in compound nouns, e.g., as in Irish-American. Calling a person a "hyphenated American" was used as an insult alleging divided political or national loyalties, especially in times of ...

  7. Letter case - Wikipedia

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    The lower-case "a" and upper-case "A" are the two case variants of the first letter in the English alphabet.. Letter case is the distinction between the letters that are in larger uppercase or capitals (more formally majuscule) and smaller lowercase (more formally minuscule) in the written representation of certain languages.

  8. Over one-third of hiring managers admit to lying to ...

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    It costs a lot of money to hire people, and of course, a lot of money to onboard them and train them. And then when they walk out, you lose all that money and you're back at ground zero,” says ...

  9. Employment - Wikipedia

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    Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any other entity, pays the other, the employee, in return for carrying out assigned work. [1]