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  2. Home rule in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Home rule provided for municipalities by constitutional amendment in 1902; for counties in 1970 (more limited than for municipalities). [8] 102 home rule municipalities, plus two consolidated city-counties that are home rule, and two home rule counties. [9] [10] [8] All tax increases in Colorado must be voter-approved. Connecticut: Yes [11] Yes ...

  3. Holmes and Rahe stress scale - Wikipedia

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    The Holmes and Rahe stress scale (/ reɪ /) [1], also known as the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, is a list of 43 stressful life events that can contribute to illness. The test works via a point accumulation score which then gives an assessment of risk. The American Institute of Stress, for instance, regards a score of 300 or more as an "80% ...

  4. Homicide: Life on the Street season 1 - Wikipedia

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    — Barry Levinson Ratings for Homicide: Life on the Street gradually declined throughout the first season, and it ultimately finished 99th in the Nielsen ratings among network shows for the season. It aired Wednesdays at 9 p.m. EST and was consistently defeated in the ratings by a high-rating comedy block featuring Home Improvement and Coach on ABC. Barry Levinson said the scheduling was a ...

  5. Community of practice - Wikipedia

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    e. A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who "share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly". [1] The concept was first proposed by cognitive anthropologist Jean Lave and educational theorist Etienne Wenger in their 1991 book Situated Learning (Lave & Wenger 1991).

  6. They hit it off on vacation but then he went silent. So she ...

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    So she decided to pick up the phone. When a few weeks passed and Nana Prempeh still hadn’t heard from the guy she met on vacation, she turned to her friends for advice. “At least half of them ...

  7. Multiple-criteria decision analysis - Wikipedia

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    In this example a company should prefer product B's risk and payoffs under realistic risk preference coefficients. Multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) or multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a sub-discipline of operations research that explicitly evaluates multiple conflicting criteria in decision making (both in daily life and in settings such as business, government and medicine).

  8. Multiple choice - Wikipedia

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    Multiple choice. A multiple choice question, with days of the week as potential answers. Multiple choice (MC), [1] objective response or MCQ (for multiple choice question) is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only correct answers from the choices offered as a list. The multiple choice format is most ...

  9. Amish way of life - Wikipedia

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    The Amish believe large families are a blessing from God. Amish rules allow marrying only between members of the Amish Church. The elderly do not go to a retirement facility; they remain at home. As time has passed, the Amish have felt pressures from the modern world; their traditional rural way of life is becoming more different from the ...