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  2. Graft (politics) - Wikipedia

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    Although the conflict between public and private interests is common to all forms of corruption, the term "graft" is specific to the intentional misdirection of official funds. Although not the original usage of the term, graft in the modern context is commonly used as a blanket term for political embezzlement , influence peddling , or other ...

  3. Raleigh Grifter - Wikipedia

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    The Raleigh Grifter is a children's bicycle manufactured and marketed between 1976 [1] and early 1983 by the Raleigh Bicycle Company of Nottingham, England. It was the "must have" bicycle of its time and bridged a gap between the Raleigh Chopper and the Raleigh Burner models. Its frame was very similar to the Raleigh Twenty Shopper bicycle, but ...

  4. Local government in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    A district (Urdu: ضلع‬, zillah) is the first tier of local government. In total there are 149 districts in Pakistan, of which several are city districts . A District Government or a City District Government and Zillah Council form the governing body, with the District Coordination Officer serving as the administrative head. [ 8 ]

  5. ‘Grifter’ Really Is the Only Word to Use for Jordan Peterson

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    Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast and Hollie Adams/Newspix/Getty Images“Grifter” is an overused insult.If a public person takes a heterodox or contrarian view on a hot ...

  6. Persian and Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani (sometimes called Hindi–Urdu) is a colloquial language and lingua franca of Pakistan and the Hindi Belt of India. It forms a dialect continuum between its two formal registers: the highly Persianized Urdu, and the de-Persianized, Sanskritized Hindi. [2] Urdu uses a modification of the Persian alphabet, whereas Hindi uses Devanagari ...

  7. Urdu Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    The Urdu Wikipedia (Urdu: اردو ویکیپیڈیا), started in January 2004, is the Standard Urdu-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-content encyclopedia. [1] [2] As of 19 February 2025, it has 217,936 articles, 190,727 registered users and 7,544 files, and it is the 54th largest edition of Wikipedia by article count, and ranks 20th in terms of depth among Wikipedias with over ...

  8. Union councils of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The union councils of Pakistan (Urdu: یونین کونسل), referred to as village councils in villages, are elected local government bodies consisting of 21 councillors, and headed by a Nazim, which is equivalent to a mayor or chairperson, plus a Naib Nazim (vice chairperson).

  9. Alloimmunity - Wikipedia

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    Alloimmunity is caused by the difference between products of highly polymorphic genes, primarily genes of the major histocompatibility complex, of the donor and graft recipient. These products are recognized by T-lymphocytes and other mononuclear leukocytes which infiltrate the graft and damage it.