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  2. 2008 financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. unemployment rate peaked at 11.0% in October 2009, the highest rate since 1983 and roughly twice the pre-crisis rate. The average hours per work week declined to 33, the lowest level since the government began collecting the data in 1964. [34] [35] The economic crisis started in the U.S. but spread to the rest of the world. [29]

  3. Tariff - Wikipedia

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    After the 1870s, the British economy continued to grow, but inexorably lagged behind the protectionist United States and Germany: from 1870 to 1913, industrial production grew at an average annual rate of 4.7% in the USA, 4.1% in Germany and only 2.1% in Great Britain.

  4. 1996 Indianapolis 500 - Wikipedia

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    Arie Luyendyk set the official one-lap track record (237.498 mph), the four-lap track record (236.986 mph), and the fastest practice lap in Indy history (239.260 mph) just a fraction of a second shy of breaking the 240 mph barrier, while Eddie Cheever ran the fastest race lap (236.103 mph) in Indy 500 history - records that all still stand as ...

  5. Presidency of Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia

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    In March, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to its lowest level since mid-1976, and the following month unemployment rose to seven percent. [93] The economy entered into another recession, its fourth in little more than a decade, [91] and unemployment quickly rose to 7.8 percent. [94]

  6. Glossary of contract bridge terms - Wikipedia

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    Possession of values in the same suit in both partners' hands so arranged that they do not pull their full weight. (1) High card values in one hand and a singleton or void in the other; e.g. ♠ KJ9 facing a void is much less useful than ♠ KJ9 facing ♠ Q4. (2) High cards in short suits in both hands, e.g. ♠ AJ facing ♠ KQ. Dustbin Notrump

  7. History of quantum mechanics - Wikipedia

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    In the case of a helium atom with two electrons in the 1s orbital, the Pauli Exclusion Principle requires that the two electrons differ in the value of one quantum number. Their values of n, l, and m l are the same. Accordingly they must differ in the value of m s, which can have the value of + 1 ⁄ 2 for one electron and − 1 ⁄ 2 for the ...

  8. 2018 in American television - Wikipedia

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    Date Event Source 1 A major crossover event takes place on ABC's TGIT (Thank God It's Thursday) primetime lineup. In the Grey's Anatomy episode "You Really Got a Hold on Me" (which culminated into the launch of its spin-off Station 19), Ben Warren (Jason George) and Andy Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz), firefighters from Seattle Grace fire department, Station 19, head to the fictional Grey-Sloan ...