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• GNU Free Documentation License
  ...tice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed under the terms of this License. Such a notice grants a world-wide, royalty-free license, u ...r of historical connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal, commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding them.
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• Morphine
  In terms of [[cognitive]] abilities, one study has shown that morphine may have a ne ...y, but poppy farms are limited by law to {{convert|2|acre|m2}}. It is also legal to sell dried poppy in flower shops for use in floral arrangements.
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• Diazepam
  ...half times more potent than its predecessor, which it quickly surpassed in terms of sales. After this initial success, other pharmaceutical companies began ==Legal status==
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• Temazepam
  In 1987, Temazepam was the most widely-abused legal prescription drug in the United Kingdom. The use of benzodiazepines by stre ==Street terms==
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• William Robertson Smith
  ...tament]], considering that it will reduce the Bible to rational historical terms and omit the supernatural [cf. 3-5]. He replies that the Bible's purpose is ...guage|Hebrew]]. However, the chief purpose of Jewish learning was [[Talmud|legal]]: the Bible being a source of ''Jewish law'', derived to settle their curr
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• Mortimer J. Adler
  * ''The Nature of Judicial Proof: An Inquiry into the Logical, Legal, and Empirical Aspects of the Law of Evidence'' (1931, with Jerome Michael) * ''Adler's Philosophical Dictionary: 125 Key Terms for the Philosopher's Lexicon'' (1995)
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• History of the Encyclopædia Britannica
  ...lphabetically. Previous English encyclopedias had generally listed related terms separately in their alphabetical order, rather like a modern technical dict After a heated legal dispute and all-too-public corporate wrangling over ownership of the ''Brit
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• Bouvier's Law Dictionary
  ...Law Dictionary''' is a book with a long tradition in the [[United States]] legal community. The first edition was written by [[John Bouvier]]. ...ted to create a totally new law dictionary that would address the American legal system, so he derived his definitions almost wholly from customs, court dec
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• Copyright status of work by the U.S. government
  ...nds on the terms of the contract and the type of work undertaken. Contract terms and conditions vary between agencies; contracts to [[NASA]] and the [[U.S. ...e rulings, legislative enactments, public ordinances, and similar official legal documents, not copyrightable for reasons of public policy. This applies to
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• Depleted uranium
  ===Legal status in weapons=== ...hyxiate. This ICJ opinion was about nuclear weapons, but the sentence "The terms have been understood, in the practice of States, in their ordinary sense as
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• Dimension stone
  ...ll go after firms that violate the new requirements, in order to establish legal precedents. ...nderlying all land on every continent. Dimension stone rates very well in terms of the criteria on the ASTM checklist for [[sustainability]] of building pr
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• Fill dirt
  ....<ref>[http://www.emgcorp.com/whatshot/dictionary.php "Fill dirt" Industry Terms and Definitions, EMG], retrieved on 2008-11-12.</ref> ...oridalegal.com/ago.nsf/Opinions/B9600CC18BAE043B8525658600586D1C "Advisory Legal opinion: Definition and disposal of dirt" Attorney General of Florida, Marc
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• Sleeping while on duty
  ...others by sleeping on the job may face more serious consequences, such as legal sanctions. For example, [[pilot (aviation)|airline pilots]] risk loss of th ...-000-.html |title=10 U.S.C §913 |publisher=Cornell University Law School, Legal Information Institute |accessdate= 2009-06-04}}</ref>
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• Carbon monoxide poisoning
  ...oxygen actually offers any extra benefits over normal high flow oxygen, in terms of increased survival or improved long-term outcomes.<ref name="ToxicolRev2 ...n copy deaths: carbon monoxide gas chamber|journal=Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine|volume=15|issue=6|pages=398–401|year=2008|month=August|pmid=1858
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• Asbestos
  ...le that they used the term ''asbestos'' for [[soapstone]], because the two terms have often been confused throughout history.<ref name=histsci/> ...urt Civ. No. 465-83C, cited in Barry I. Castleman, ''Asbestos: Medical and Legal Aspects'', 4th edition, Aspen Law and Business, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1996,
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• Work–life balance
  ..., family and spiritual development) on the other. Related, though broader, terms include "lifestyle balance" and "life balance". ...d States. In contrast, the European Union has gone quite far in assuring a legal work-life balance framework, for example pertaining to [[parental leave]] a
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• Occupational hygiene
  ...characterizing the nature of the issue, both in terms of the hazard and in terms of the risk to the workplace and ultimately to society. This has involved ...first legal definition in the United States of an industrial hygienist in terms of education and experience. The APIH Registration Committee investigates a
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• Occupational safety and health
  The event of an incident at work (such as legal fees, fines, compensatory damages, investigation time, lost production, los *[[Law|Legal]] - Occupational requirements may be reinforced in [[civil law (common law
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• Work–life balance (United States)
  ...to have a life '''thus''' the work life balance. Related, though broader, terms include "lifestyle balance" and "life balance". ...Act, there are many other federal and state statutes that allow employees legal time off from work. Massachusetts enacted the [[Small Necessities Leave Act
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• Wildfire suppression
  ...human health and safety, construction cost, ecological impacts, social and legal consequences and the costs of protection. ''Defendability'' is also conside *[[Glossary of wildland fire terms]]
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