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  2. 2000s United States housing bubble - Wikipedia

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    The 2000s United States housing bubble or house price boom or 2000s housing cycle [2] was a sharp run up and subsequent collapse of house asset prices affecting over half of the U.S. states. In many regions a real estate bubble , it was the impetus for the subprime mortgage crisis .

  3. Decent Homes Standard - Wikipedia

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    The Decent Homes Standard is a technical standard for public housing introduced in 2006 by the United Kingdom government. [1] It underpinned the Decent Homes Programme brought in by the Blair ministry (Labour party) which aimed to provide a minimum standard of housing conditions for those housed in the public sector - i.e. in council housing or by housing associations.

  4. Northern Counties Committee - Wikipedia

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    In the event, however, the GNR(I) was to be excluded from the provisions of The Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1948 (c. 16 (N.I.)) and when the UTA came into existence on 1 April 1948, only the BCDR and the NIRTB would be absorbed at first; the NCC's British connection meant that there was a delay in its acquisition by the new organisation.

  5. List of acts of the Oireachtas - Wikipedia

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    No. 7/1968 – Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968; No. 8/1968 – Oireachtas (Allowances To Members) (Amendment) Act 1968; No. 9/1968 – Control of Exports (Temporary Provisions) Act 1956 (Continuance) Act 1968; No. 10/1968 – Chester Beatty Library Act 1968; No. 11/1968 – Imposition of Duties (Dumping and Subsidies) Act 1968

  6. Green card - Wikipedia

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    The Immigration and Naturalization Service was formed as part of the Department of Labor in 1933, and in 1940 was moved under the Department of Justice along with the Nationality Act of 1940. During the 1940s the predecessor to the "Permanent Resident" card was the "Alien Registration Receipt Card" which on the back would indicate "Perm.Res" in ...

  7. Discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Equal Pay Act of 1963 [113] – (part of the Fair Labor Standards Act) – prohibits wage discrimination by employers and labor organizations based on sex. Civil Rights Act of 1964 – many provisions, including broadly prohibiting discrimination in the workplace including hiring, firing, workforce reduction, benefits, and sexually harassing ...

  8. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes - Wikipedia

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    A number of laws were enacted to implement the provisions in the Constitution. Examples of such laws include the Untouchability Practices Act, 1955, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, The Employment of Manual Scavengers and Construction of Dry Latrines (Prohibition) Act, 1993, etc. Despite legislation ...

  9. Consumer Credit Act 1974 - Wikipedia

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    Long title: An Act to establish for the protection of consumers a new system, administered by the Director General of Fair Trading, of licensing and other control of traders concerned with the provision of credit, or the supply of goods on hire or hire-purchase, and their transactions, in place of the present enactments regulating moneylenders, pawnbrokers and hire-purchase traders and their ...