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Abbrev. [1]Meaning [1] Latin (or Neo-Latin) origin [1]; a.c. before meals: a.d., ad, AD right ear auris dextra a.m., am, AM morning: ante meridiem: nocte every night ...
"Petrocurrency" or (more commonly) "petrodollars" are popular shorthand for revenues from petroleum exports, mainly from the OPEC members plus Russia and Norway.Especially during periods of historically expensive oil, the associated financial flows can reach a scale of hundreds of billions of US dollar-equivalents per year – including a wide range of transactions in a variety of currencies ...
OMV Petrom S.A. is a Romanian integrated oil company, controlled by Austria's OMV. [1] It is one of the largest corporations in Romania and the largest oil and gas producer in Southeast Europe. [2]
David Keith McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023) [1] was a Scottish actor and musician, based in the United States. [2] [3] He gained wide recognition in the 1960s for playing secret agent Illya Kuryakin in the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E (1964–1968).
In Honduras, the business-lending arm of the World Bank aligned itself with a key player in a land dispute that has left more than 130 people dead, including Gregorio Chávez, a preacher who went out to tend his garden one day and didn’t come back. In the last decade, the International Finance Corp.’s lending and influence has soared, even as it has embraced financing methods that shield ...
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. [5] Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was the third-largest software company in the world in 2020 by revenue and market capitalization. [6]
Mx (/ m ɪ k s, m ə k s / [1] [2]) is an English-language neologistic honorific that does not indicate gender. Created as an alternative to gendered honorifics (such as Mr. and Ms.) in the late 1970s, it is the most common gender-neutral title among non-binary people [3] and people who do not wish to imply a gender in their titles.
Kyle Merritt MacLachlan [1] (/ m ə k ˈ l ɒ k l ə n /; né McLachlan, February 22, 1959) [2] is an American actor best known for his Emmy-nominated and Golden Globe-winning role as Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks (1990–1991, 2017) and its film prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992).