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An often derogatory term frequently used to describe any form of Easy Listening, smooth jazz, or Middle of the road music, or to the type of recordings once commonly heard on "beautiful music" radio stations. [159] [160] NOS (Nitrous Oxide Systems) Nitrous: Holley Performance Products
Gang system: Form of enslaved-labor management, contrast task system. Griffe: Also, griffonne, [9] a color/race descriptor most commonly used in Louisiana, usually describing someone who was one-quarter white and three-quarters black; [10] for other examples of the detailed race-mixture vocabulary developed in Louisiana, see Mulatto § Louisiana.
A number of contemporary and modern historians noted the influence of the old form of colonial slavery on the coolie system. [22] The coolie trade, much like the slave trade, was intended to provide a labour force for colonial plantations in the Americas and the Pacific whose cash crops were in high demand across the Atlantic World.
The term is said to allude to the Great Wall of China but the screen walls of Chinese internal architecture have also been attributed as its origin. Bryan Garner's Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage states that the metaphor title "derives of course from the Great Wall of China", [2] although an alternative explanation links the idea to the screen walls of Chinese internal architecture.
Zips (also Siggies or Geeps) is a slang term in the United States that was especially in use in the early 20th century.It was often used as a derogatory slur by Italian American and Sicilian American mobsters in reference to newer immigrant Sicilian and Italian mafiosi.
Different sources of trade data may provide more or less complete data coverage, and more or less detail: reported vs. mirrored: One key distinction in trade data is between the reporting country (the country that provides data) and the partner country (the country listed as an export partner or import partner in the data provided by a reporting country).
Some proponents of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy use certain historical examples of non-chattel slavery in discussions on the role of the slave system of the South, however insofar as it is to further this ideological point it obscures and downplays the specificities of the American slave system- both its place in history, and comparison to ...
In economics, a tariff-rate quota (TRQ) (also called a tariff quota) is a two-tiered tariff system that combines import quotas and tariffs to regulate import products.. A TRQ allows a lower tariff rate on imports of a given product within a specified quantity and requires a higher tariff rate on imports exceeding that quantity. [1]