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  2. Block letters - Wikipedia

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    Block letters may also be used as to refer to block capitals, which means writing in all capital letters or in large and small capital letters, imitating the style of typeset capital letters. [2] However, in at least one court case involving patents, the term "block letters" was found to include both upper and lower case. [2]

  3. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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    Orbital characteristics; Regime(s) 6 MEO planes: Orbital height: 20,180 km (12,540 mi) Orbital period: 1 ⁄ 2 sd or 11 hours and 58 minutes: Revisit period: 1 sidereal day: Other details; Cost: $12 billion [1] (initial constellation) $1.84 billion per year (2023) [1] (operating cost) Website: gps.gov

  4. Diversity, equity, and inclusion - Wikipedia

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    Basically, their message was, do not promote diversity because it is a legal mandate, but because it is good for business . From then on, researchers started to test a number of hypotheses on the business benefits of diversity and of diversity management, known as the business case of diversity. [31]

  5. List of forms of government - Wikipedia

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    A politically unstable and kleptocratic government that economically depends upon the exports of a limited resource (fruits, minerals), and usually features a society composed of stratified social classes, such as a great, impoverished ergatocracy and a ruling plutocracy, composed of the aristocracy of business, politics, and the military. [32]

  6. Epistolary novel - Wikipedia

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    Title page of Aphra Behn's early epistolary novel, Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684). There are two theories on the genesis of the epistolary novel: The first claims that the genre is originated from novels with inserted letters, in which the portion containing the third-person narrative in between the letters was gradually reduced. [5]

  7. Letter of credit - Wikipedia

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    Standby letter of credit (SBLC): Operates like a commercial letter of credit, except that typically it is retained as a standby instead of being the intended payment mechanism. In other words, this is an LC which is intended to provide a source of payment in the event of non-performance of contract.

  8. Cursive - Wikipedia

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    Cursive is a style of penmanship in which the symbols of the language are written in a conjoined and/or flowing manner, generally for the purpose of making writing faster. . This writing style is distinct from "print-script" using block letters, in which the letters of a word are unconnected and in Roman/Gothic letterform rather than joined-up scri

  9. Letter (alphabet) - Wikipedia

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    The American manual alphabet, an example of letters in fingerspelling. Before alphabets, phonograms, graphic symbols of sounds, were used.There were three kinds of phonograms: verbal, pictures for entire words, syllabic, which stood for articulations of words, and alphabetic, which represented signs or letters.