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  2. [289] [290] The head accounts for around 7–9% of the body's surface, and studies have shown that having one's head submerged in cold water only causes a person to lose 10% more heat overall. [291] [medical citation needed] Adrenochrome is not harvested from living people and has no use as a recreational drug.

  3. Executive compensation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Since the 1990s, CEO compensation in the U.S. has outpaced corporate profits, economic growth and the average compensation of all workers. Between 1980 and 2004, Mutual Fund founder John Bogle estimates total CEO compensation grew 8.5 per cent/year compared to corporate profit growth of 2.9 per cent/year and per capita income growth of 3.1 per cent.

  4. Tax - Wikipedia

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    However, many taxes will inevitably fall on resources and persons very different from those intended … Good taxes meet four major criteria. They are (1) proportionate to incomes or abilities to pay (2) certain rather than arbitrary (3) payable at times and in ways convenient to the taxpayers and (4) cheap to administer and collect." [54]

  5. Sheriffs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The law and guidelines are shown below. Sheriffs' salary schedule. The board of county commissioners shall establish, by resolution, the salary payable to the sheriff. The salary payable may not be less than the following schedule based upon the most recent decennial federal census of population of counties.

  6. Hispanic and Latino Americans - Wikipedia

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    Texas Hispanics were split nearly evenly, favoring Kerry 50–49 over their favorite son candidate and Florida Hispanics (who are mostly Cuban American) backed Bush, by a 54–45 margin. In 1998, California Proposition 227 , which sought to eliminate bilingual education in public schools, was passed.

  7. List of The Sopranos characters - Wikipedia

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    Ralph is not present in Season 1 or 2, as he spends a prolonged period of time in Miami, Florida, and lived in Delray Beach, Florida. Ralph first appears as a soldier in the Aprile Crew in the second episode of Season 3, "Proshai, Livushka". He is characterized as an excellent earner but also unstable and prone to violence.

  8. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - Wikipedia

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    Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalβaɾ ˈnuɲeθ kaˈβeθa ðe ˈβaka] ⓘ; c. 1488/90/92 [1] – after 19 May 1559 [2]) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.

  9. List of acts of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1786

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    An Act for appointing Commissioners to enquire into the Losses of all such Persons who have suffered in their Properties in consequence of the Cession of the Province of East Florida to the King of Spain. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 116))