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  2. Project - Wikipedia

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    Project cancellation is the termination of a project prior to its completion and generally includes the cessation of access to funding and other project resources. Project cancellation may result from cost overruns , schedule overruns, changes in budget , change or obviation of the goal of the project, political factors, or any combination of ...

  3. Wikipedia:WikiProject Linguistics/Etymology - Wikipedia

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    Welcome to the Etymology Task Force!This task force is a part of WikiProject Linguistics, and is aimed at improving Wikipedia's coverage of etymology.The scope of this task force includes articles about etymology itself and related topics (e.g. etymology, loanword), articles about the origins of particular words (e.g. List of U.S. state name etymologies, names of the Greeks), and etymology ...

  4. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was Oracle (the CIA evidently saw this as a system that would give answers to all questions). The project was designed to use the newly written SQL database language from IBM. The project eventually ...

  5. White elephant - Wikipedia

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    In modern usage, the term now often refers in addition to an extremely expensive building project that fails to deliver on its function or becomes very costly to maintain. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] Examples include prestigious but uneconomic infrastructure projects such as airports, [ 11 ] dams, [ 12 ] bridges, [ 13 ] [ 14 ] shopping malls [ 15 ] and ...

  6. Etymology - Wikipedia

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    Etymology (/ ˌ ɛ t ɪ ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i /, ET-im-OL-ə-jee [1]) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. [2] In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics , etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. [ 1 ]

  7. Research - Wikipedia

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    To test the validity of instruments, procedures, or experiments, research may replicate elements of prior projects or the project as a whole. The primary purposes of basic research (as opposed to applied research ) are documentation , discovery , interpretation , and the research and development (R&D) of methods and systems for the advancement ...

  8. Jeff Bezos’ rocket company Blue Origin to lay off more than ...

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    Blue Origin announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce — or more than 1,000 employees — nearly a month after ... Limp did not link the layoffs to a specific project at Blue Origin.

  9. Pork barrel - Wikipedia

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    The Big Dig was a project to relocate an existing 3.5-mile (5.6 km) section of the Interstate Highway System underground. The official planning phase started in 1982; the construction was done between 1991 and 2006, and the project concluded on December 31, 2007. It ended up costing US$14.6 billion, or over US$4 billion per mile. [10]