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  2. United States Office of Personnel Management - Wikipedia

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    The United States Civil Service Commission was created by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883. The commission was renamed the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB), and most of commission's former functions—with the exception of the federal employees appellate function—were assigned to new agencies, with most being assigned to the newly created U.S. Office of Personnel ...

  3. List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents - Wikipedia

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    The US Code of Federal Regulations defines an accident as "an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft, which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage;" an incident as "an occurrence ...

  4. Environmental, social, and governance - Wikipedia

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    These areas include data quality and a lack of standardization; evolving regulation and politics; greenwashing; and variety in the definition and assessment of social good. [4] Some critics argue that ESG serves as a de facto extension of governmental regulation , with large investment firms like BlackRock imposing ESG standards that ...

  5. COVID-19 pandemic - Wikipedia

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    [11] [12] Pandemics and their ends are not well-defined, and whether or not one has ended differs according to the definition used. [11] [13] As of 11 February 2025, COVID-19 has caused 7,086,620 [5] confirmed deaths, and 18.2 to 33.5 million estimated deaths. [7] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the fifth-deadliest pandemic or epidemic in history.

  6. Pilot certification in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A pilot may be certified under 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 61 or 14 CFR Part 141 (if a student attends an approved part 141 school). Pilots may also be certified under 14 CFR Part 107 for commercial drone operations. An FAA-issued pilot certificate is evidence that an individual is duly authorized to exercise piloting privileges.

  7. Gas turbine - Wikipedia

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    British, German, other national and international test codes are used to standardize the procedures and definitions used to test gas turbines. Selection of the test code to be used is an agreement between the purchaser and the manufacturer, and has some significance to the design of the turbine and associated systems.

  8. Food safety - Wikipedia

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    Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [1]