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  2. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    Views vary with geography and culture, over time, and among individuals. Many terms that some people view as harmful are not viewed as hurtful by others, and even where some people are hurt by certain terms, others may be hurt by the replacement of such terms with what they consider to be euphemisms (e.g., "differently abled" or "special needs ...

  3. List of age-related terms with negative connotations - Wikipedia

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    Baby: Term often used to tease others for being childish or too young, or for behaving in an immature way. Bag lady: A homeless old woman or vagrant. Barely legal: [6] A term used to market pornography featuring young people who are "barely legal" (only just reached legal age of majority or the age of consent, or both). The term fetishizes ...

  4. Midget - Wikipedia

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    The term may also refer to anything of much smaller than normal size, as a synonym for "miniature" or "mini", [10] such as midget cell, midget crabapple, midget flowerpecker, midget submarine, MG Midget, Daihatsu Midget, and the Midget Mustang airplane; or to anything that regularly uses anything that is smaller than normal (other than a person ...

  5. Dwarfism - Wikipedia

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    Dwarfism is a condition of people and animals marked by unusually small size or short stature. [1] In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dwarfism is 120 centimetres (4 ft).

  6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    a protest in which workers deliberately work slowly (US: slowdown or work to rule) green fingers talent for growing plants (US: green thumb) greengrocer * a retail trader in fruit and vegetables gritter a truck that spreads sand or salt on roads when they are covered with ice (US: salt truck, salt spreader) [90] grotty

  7. 996 working hour system - Wikipedia

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    It does harm to hard-working workers and is a misunderstanding of the hard-working spirit". [71] The People's Daily wrote that "advocating 'hard work' does not mean resorting to and enforcing the 996 system", [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ] while an editorial in the China News Service said that it is "unnecessary to exchange life for money".

  8. Ergonomics for manual material handling - Wikipedia

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    Adjust work schedules, work pace, or work practices. Provide recovery time (e.g., short rest breaks). Modify work practices so that workers perform work within their power zone (i.e., above the knees, below the shoulders, and close to the body). Rotate workers through jobs that use different muscles, body parts, or postures.

  9. Short stature - Wikipedia

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    Chronic illnesses, malnutrition, endocrine, metabolic disorders or chromosomal anomalies are characterized by proportionate short stature. On the other hand, most genetic skeletal dysplasias are known for short stature that may be proportionate or disproportionate.