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  2. List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    The purpose, rather than to standardize state abbreviations per se, was to make room in a line of no more than 23 characters for the city, the state, and the ZIP code. [4] Since 1963, only one state abbreviation has changed.

  3. Taiichi Ohno - Wikipedia

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    Ohno Taiichi (大野耐一, Ōno Taiichi, February 29, 1912 – May 28, 1990) was a Japanese industrial engineer and businessman. He is considered to be the father of the Toyota Production System , which inspired Lean Manufacturing in the U.S. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He devised the seven wastes (or muda in Japanese) as part of this system.

  4. Hawaiian phonology - Wikipedia

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    In Hawaiian, a phonemic glottal stop historically derives from an earlier consonant. A number of words have variant pronunciations between glottal (that is, both /h/ and /ʔ/) and non-glottal consonants; it is conjectured that the forms with a non-glottal consonant are older and that this phenomenon is part of a process of consonant deletion. [24]

  5. Federal Information Processing Standard state code - Wikipedia

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    The FIPS state alpha code for each U.S. states and the District of Columbia are identical to the postal abbreviations by the United States Postal Service. From September 3, 1987, the same was true of the alpha code for each of the outlying areas, with the exception of U.S. Minor Outlying Islands (UM) as the USPS routes mail for these islands ...

  6. List of demonyms for US states and territories - Wikipedia

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    Bay Stater (official term used by state government) and Citizen of the Commonwealth (identifier used in state law) [31] Massachusettsian, [32] Massachusite, [33] [34] Masshole (derogatory [35] as an exonym; however, it can be affectionate when applied as an endonym [36]) Michigan: Michiganian

  7. Taiichi - Wikipedia

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    Taiichi (written: 泰一 or 耐一) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: Taiichi Ohno (大野 耐一) (1912–1990), Japanese businessman; Tochinonada Taiichi (栃乃洋 泰一) (born 1974), Japanese sumo wrestler; Taiichi Otsuji (尾辻 泰一) (born 1959), Japanese engineer

  8. Hawaii - Wikipedia

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    Hawaii is the southernmost U.S. state and the second westernmost after Alaska. Like Alaska, Hawaii borders no other U.S. state. It is the only U.S. state not in North America, and the only one completely surrounded by water and entirely an archipelago. In addition to the eight main islands, the state has many smaller islands and islets.

  9. Hawaiian language - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) [7] is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.