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A disadvantaged business enterprise is a business entity so certified in the United States by the government of the State in which it is located.SAFETEA provides that the Secretary of Transportation will provide uniform criteria for certification, and that at least ten percent of the amounts made available for any Federal-aid highway, mass transit, and transportation research and technology ...
The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) is the agency charged with licensing and regulating more than 1.6 million businesses and professionals in the State of Florida, such as alcohol, beverage & tobacco, barbers/cosmetologists, condominiums, spas, hotels and restaurants, real estate agents and appraisers, and veterinarians, among many other industries.
dBe, decibels electrical, a unit of measure which measures the ratio of gain or attenuation of an electrical circuit; Double bond equivalent, a calculation used in chemistry that determines the total number of rings and π bonds of organic molecules; DBE (drug), also known as estrobin, a synthetic estrogen
In 2016, Morrissey was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Cambridge. [19]Morrissey was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2012 New Year Honours for services to UK business and promoted Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to diversity in financial services.
She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1956. She received honorary degrees from the University of Reading (1959, D.Litt.), the University of London (1960, LLD) and the University of Oxford (1960, DCL). [citation needed] By 1999, she was living at Seymours, Melton, near Woodbridge, Suffolk. She was the ...
Jones was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, 1978) and went on to study at Wellesley College, Massachusetts. [2] She co-founded, and subsequently floated, The Pelican Group Plc, owner of a number of restaurant chains including Café Rouge.
According to the DCRA: The mission of the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs is to protect the health, safety, economic interests, and quality of life of residents, businesses, and visitors in the District of Columbia by issuing licenses and permits, conducting inspections, enforcing building, housing, and safety codes, regulating land use and development, and providing consumer ...
In the 1984 New Year Honours, she was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE). [6] [20] Warnock was created a life peer on 6 February 1985, taking the title Baroness Warnock, of Weeke, in the City of Winchester. [21] She sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until her retirement from the House on 1 June 2015.