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  2. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle - Wikipedia

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    The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is an American twin-engine, all-weather fighter aircraft designed by McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing).Following reviews of proposals, the United States Air Force (USAF) selected McDonnell Douglas's design in 1969 to meet the service's need for a dedicated air superiority fighter.

  3. Sustainable development - Wikipedia

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    The vagueness of the Brundtland definition of sustainable development has been criticized as follows: [9]: 17 The definition has "opened up the possibility of downplaying sustainability. Hence, governments spread the message that we can have it all at the same time, i.e. economic growth, prospering societies and a healthy environment.

  4. Lolicon - Wikipedia

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    Lolicon is a Japanese abbreviation of "Lolita complex" (ロリータ・コンプレックス, rorīta konpurekkusu), [5] an English-language phrase derived from Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita (1955) and introduced to Japan in Russell Trainer's The Lolita Complex (1966, translated 1969), [6] a work of pop psychology in which it is used to denote attraction to pubescent and pre-pubescent girls. [7]

  5. Programming productivity - Wikipedia

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    The famous book Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by de Marco and Lister [14] brought the importance of people-related factors to the attention of a broader audience. They collected in many software projects experiences with good and bad management practice that have an influence on the productivity of the team.

  6. United States Secret Service - Wikipedia

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    The United States Secret Service (USSS or Secret Service) is a federal law enforcement agency under the Department of Homeland Security with the purpose of conducting investigations into currency and financial-payment crime, and protecting U.S. political leaders, their families, and visiting heads of state or government. [3]

  7. Trigonometric functions - Wikipedia

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    It can be proved, for real arguments, that these definitions coincide with elementary geometric definitions if the argument is regarded as an angle given in radians. [6] Moreover, these definitions result in simple expressions for the derivatives and indefinite integrals for the trigonometric functions. [8]

  8. Information technology - Wikipedia

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    Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages, and data and information processing, and storage. [1]

  9. Microservices - Wikipedia

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    In a service mesh, each service instance is paired with an instance of a reverse proxy server, called a service proxy, sidecar proxy, or sidecar. The service instance and sidecar proxy share a container, and the containers are managed by a container orchestration tool such as Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm, or DC/OS. The service proxies are ...