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  2. Agua y Saneamientos Argentinos - Wikipedia

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    The government of Carlos Menem carried out a plan of privatization that included OSN, granting concession to "Aguas Argentinas", a corporation group formed by French-owned Suez Environnement, and Spanish Aguas de Barcelona and Banco Galicia. The contract set a term of 20 years of concession, then extended during the government of Fernando de la ...

  3. Water law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States inherited the British common law system which develops legal principles through judicial decisions made in the context of disputes between parties. . Statutory and constitutional law forms the framework within which these disputes are resolved, to some extent, but decisional law developed through the resolution of specific disputes is the great engine of w

  4. Literal translation - Wikipedia

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    Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is the translation of a text done by translating each word separately without analysing how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).

  5. Río de la Plata - Wikipedia

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    2]: Length: 290 km (180 mi) [3] 4,876 km (3,030 mi) including the Paraná: Basin size: 3,170,000 km 2 (1,220,000 sq mi) [4] 3,182,064 km 2 (1,228,602 sq mi) [5]: Discharge: : • location: Río de la Plata, Atlantic Ocean: • average: (Period 1971-2010) . 27,225 m 3 /s (961,400 cu ft/s) [5] 22,000 m 3 /s (780,000 cu ft/s) [3]. 884 km 3 /a (28,000 m 3 /s) [6]: • minimum: 12,000 m 3 /s ...

  6. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Literal language is the usage of words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings: their denotation. Figurative (or non-literal ) language is the usage of words in a way that deviates from their conventionally accepted definitions in order to convey a more complex meaning or a heightened effect. [ 1 ]

  7. Young's Literal Translation - Wikipedia

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    The Literal Translation is, as the name implies, a very literal translation of the original Hebrew and Greek texts. The Preface to the Second Edition states: If a translation gives a present tense when the original gives a past, or a past when it has a present; a perfect for a future, or a future for a perfect; an a for a the, or a the for an a; an imperative for a subjunctive, or a ...

  8. Like Water for Chocolate (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist and screenwriter Laura Esquivel. [1] It was first published in Mexico in 1989. [ 2 ] The English version of the novel was published in 1992.

  9. Minnesota - Wikipedia

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    Minnesota (/ ˌ m ɪ n ə ˈ s oʊ t ə / ⓘ MIN-ə-SOH-tə) is a state in the Upper Midwestern region of the United States. It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba and Ontario to the north and east and by the U.S. states of Wisconsin to the east, Iowa to the south, and North Dakota and South Dakota to the west.