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  2. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The amount and timing of deductions for business expenses is determined under the taxpayer's tax accounting method, which may differ from methods used in accounting records. [34] Some types of business expenses are deductible over a period of years rather than when incurred. These include the cost of long lived assets such as buildings and ...

  3. History of union busting in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Creative methods of union busting have been around for a long time. In 1907, Morris Friedman reported that a Pinkerton agent who had infiltrated the Western Federation of Miners managed to gain control of a strike relief fund, and attempted to exhaust that union's treasury by awarding lavish benefits to strikers. [ 4 ]

  4. Prison - Wikipedia

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    A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, usually as punishment for various crimes.

  5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Wikipedia

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈbɔnhøːfɐ] ⓘ; 4 February 1906 – 9 April 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, neo-orthodox theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was a key founding member of the Confessing Church.

  6. Genocide of indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    The Family Planning Services and Population Research Act was passed in 1970, which subsidized sterilizations for patients receiving healthcare through the Indian Health Service. [182] In the 1970-1976 period, 25% to 50% of Native American women have been sterilized by the Indian Health Service. [ 183 ]

  7. AI takeover - Wikipedia

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    An example of "capability control" is to research whether a superintelligence AI could be successfully confined in an "AI box". According to Bostrom, such capability control proposals are not reliable or sufficient to solve the control problem in the long term, but may potentially act as valuable supplements to alignment efforts.

  8. Iranian revolution - Wikipedia

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    According to Shia customs, memorial services (chehelom) are held 40 days after a person's death. [115] Encouraged by Khomeini (who declared that the blood of martyrs must water the "tree of Islam"), [107] radicals pressured the mosques and moderate clergy to commemorate the deaths of the students, and used the occasion to generate protests. [116]