A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 0-9 General Chemical Company ... Genet, Edmond-Charles General Chemical Company (from the article "AlliedSignal") The corporation was formed in 1920 in the consolidation of several chemical manufacturers; the Barrett ... General Company for Wines of Alto Douro (from the article "Portugal") ...and another to trade with northern Brazil. In 1756 he founded a board of trade ... General Confederation of Labour major labour-union federation in Argentina. The CGT was formed in 1930. Its leadership was contested ... General Confederation of Labour French labour union federation. Formed in 1895, the CGT united in 1902 with the syndicalist-oriented ... [6 Related Articles] General Confederation of Labour (from the article "Italy") ...the agricultural labourers of the Po valley and Puglia. A land-workers union, the Federation of ... General Confederation of Labour-Workers' Force French labour-union federation that is most influential among white-collar civil servants and clerical workers. It ... [1 Related Articles] General Conference (from the article "Adventist") The General Conference, the church's main governing body, has its headquarters in Silver Spring, Md., ... General Council of Congregational Christian Churches Protestant church in the United States, organized in 1931 by a merger of the National ... [2 Related Articles] General Council of the Valleys (from the article "Andorra") Historically, the coprinces (the French president and the bishop of Urgel) represented Andorra internationally and ... General Court (from the article "United States") ...of their constituents but rather to decide, independently, what measures were in the best interests ... general court-martial (from the article "court-martial") Generally, courts-martial are convened as ad hoc courts to try one or more cases referred ... General Dental Council (from the article "dentistry") Permission to practice in the United Kingdom is granted by the General Dental Council (GDC) ... general deterrence (from the article "punishment") The approach based on general deterrence aims to dissuade others from following the offender's example. ... General Directory (from the article "Germany") Organizationally, Frederick William completed the centralizing process begun by the Great Elector, its capstone being ... General Dynamics Corp. major American defense contractor. The company's headquarters are in Falls Church, Va. [1 Related Articles] general election (from the article "United Kingdom") ...to Parliament or a local council are normally chosen by the local parties. There are ... General Electric Co. major American corporation and one of the largest and most diversified corporations in the world. ... [18 Related Articles] general elution problem (from the article "chromatography") ...however, now spending most of their time in the mobile-gas phase, migrate rapidly through the ... general equilibrium theory (from the article "Barone, Enrico") Italian mathematical economist who expanded on the concepts of general equilibrium previously formulated by French ... general factor (from the article "Spearman, Charles E.") British psychologist who theorized that a general factor of intelligence, g, is present in varying ... General Federation of Trade Unions (from the article "Trades Union Congress") ...of "new" or unskilled general unions. But the TUC's organization remained extremely rudimentary, and rather ... General Federation of Trade Unions (from the article "Iraq") ...have been honoured since the early 1990s. Trade unions were legalized in 1936, but their ... General Federation of Women's Clubs International umbrella organization in the United States founded in 1890 to coordinate its members' efforts at ... [2 Related Articles] General Federation of Workers (from the article "Syria") The General Federation of Workers was founded in 1938 and has grown tremendously in power ... General Film Company (from the article "motion picture, history of the") ...and rent company films. To solidify its control, in 1910-the same year in which motion-picture ... General Fono (from the article "Tokelau") ...atolls, from which the head of government (Ulu-o-Tokelau) is selected annually. The meeting place of ... General Foods Corporation former American manufacturer of packaged grocery and meat products. [3 Related Articles] general formula (from the article "chemical formula") A general formula is a type of empirical formula that represents the composition of any ... General German Workers' Association (from the article "Social Democratic Party of Germany") The SPD traces its origins to the merger in 1875 of the General German Workers' ... General Grant National Memorial mausoleum of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant in New York City, standing on a bluff ... [2 Related Articles] General Headquarters Air Force (from the article "Andrews, Frank M") U.S. soldier and air force officer who contributed signally to the evolution of U.S. bombardment ... general hospital (from the article "hospital") General hospitals are general in the sense that they admit all types of medical and ... general human capital (from the article "wage and salary") Becker introduced the important distinction between "general" human capital (which is valued by all potential ... General Italian Confederation of Labour Italy's largest trade-union federation. It was organized in Rome in 1944 as a nationwide labour ... [1 Related Articles] General Ledger (from the article "computer") The availability of BASIC and CP/M enabled more widespread software development. By 1977 a two-person ... general lien (from the article "lien") ...only to the indebtedness of the property owner for the value of services rendered to ... general lighting (from the article "theatre") ...three conflicting elements in production-the moving three-dimensional actor, the stationary vertical scenery, and the horizontal ... General Medical Council (from the article "medical education") ...The new direction in medical education was aided in Britain by the passage of the ... General Mills, Inc. leading American producer of packaged consumer foods, especially flour, breakfast cereals, snacks, prepared mixes, and ... [1 Related Articles] General Motors Acceptance Corporation (from the article "Raskob, John Jakob") ...and earnings. He encouraged a widened stock ownership base in the belief that, as more ... General Motors Corporation American corporation that became the world's largest motor-vehicle manufacturer in 1931 and maintained that status ... [28 Related Articles] General Motors Technical Center (from the article "Saarinen, Eero") Saarinen's first independent work, one that brought immediate renown, was the vast General Motors Technical ... general museum (from the article "museum, types of") General museums hold collections in more than one subject and are therefore sometimes known as ... general obligation bond (from the article "revenue bond") ...state, or public agency authorized to build, acquire, or improve a revenue-producing property such as ... General Ordinance Plan (from the article "Madrid") ...such as the future of the environment. In 1982 the city administration carried out a ... General People's Congress (from the article "Yemen") ...factors as regional, tribal, sectarian, or ethnic persuasion are expressly prohibited. Each party must seek ... General Petroleum and Mineral Organization (from the article "Saudi Arabia") ...on the Persian Gulf to Yanbu' on the Red Sea, and this greatly shortened the ... General Privilege (from the article "Spain") ...by these difficulties, the Aragonese nobles organized a union to uphold their liberties and in ... General Problem Solver (from the article "artificial intelligence") Newell, Simon, and Shaw went on to write a more powerful program, the General Problem ... General Public License (from the article "open source") In pursuit of his ends, Stallman wrote the General Public License (GPL), a document attached ... general recombination (from the article "Nobel Prizes") Working independently to find a way to modify genes in mammals, Capecchi and Smithies sought ... general relativity (from the article "cosmology") The third great age began in the early years of the 20th century, with the ... General San Martin (from the article "General San Martin") ...seat and county began as an early rural settlement centred on the 18th-century Chapel of ... General San Martin cabecera (county seat) and partido (county) of Gran (Greater) ... General Santos city, southern Mindanao, Philippines. The city is named for General Paulino Santos, who directed the ... [1 Related Articles] General School Regulation for the Austrian lands (from the article "Austria") ...an ignorant and potentially ill-disciplined rural population. Compulsory education was a method of instilling a ... General Secretariat (from the article "Pan-American conferences") ...States (1889-90), which was held largely as the result of the efforts of U.S. Secretary ... General Security, Committee of organ of the French Revolutionary government. It directed the political police and Revolutionary justice. Founded ... [1 Related Articles] general semantics a philosophy of language-meaning that was developed by Alfred Korzybski (1879-1950), a Polish-American scholar, and ... General Service Enlistment Act of 1856 (from the article "India") ...had accentuated caste consciousness by careful regulations, had allowed discipline to grow lax, and had ... General Sherman (from the article "Sequoia National Park") The largest big tree in the park is known as the General Sherman Tree, which ... general somatic afferent fibre (from the article "nervous system, human") General somatic afferent receptors are sensitive to pain, thermal sensation, touch and pressure, and changes ... general somatic efferent fibre (from the article "nervous system, human") General somatic efferent fibres originate from large ventral-horn cells and distribute to skeletal muscles in ... general staff in the military, a group of officers that assists the commander of a division or ... [2 Related Articles] general store retail store in a small town or rural community that carries a wide variety of ... general strike stoppage of work by a substantial proportion of workers in a number of industries in ... [4 Related Articles] General Strike of 1926 (from the article "Baldwin, Stanley, 1st Earl Baldwin Of Bewdley, Viscount Corvedale Of Corvedale") ...tax), the gold standard, and the silk tax-proposed by Baldwin's appointee to the Exchequer, Winston ... General Stud Book (from the article "General Stud Book") in horse breeding, prototype of the breeding record of purebred horses, or studbook (q.v.).breed association general surgery (from the article "surgery") The major medical specialties involving surgery are general surgery, plastic surgery, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and ... General Surveyors, Court of (from the article "Augmentations, Court of") In 1547 the Court of Augmentations was joined with the Court of General Surveyors, which ... General Synod (from the article "Canada, Anglican Church of") ...gradually spread throughout Canada, and until 1832 it was the established church of Canada. As ... general topology (from the article "topology") Basic concepts of general topologyLeibnizLeibniz, ... general union (from the article "organized labour") ...and cotton spinners are examples. Yet, at this stage, the structure of unionism was still ... general visceral afferent fibre (from the article "nervous system, human") ...(Pain and temperature sensation coming from the surface of the body is called exteroceptive, while ... general visceral efferent fibre (from the article "nervous system, human") General somatic efferent fibres originate from large ventral-horn cells and distribute to skeletal muscles in ... general will theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 18th-century French political philosopher, that in a democratic society the state ... [7 Related Articles] General, Municipal, and Boilermakers' Union one of the largest trade unions in Great Britain and one of the two giant ... [1 Related Articles] general-aviation aircraft (from the article "aerospace industry") By far the world's largest market for general aviation aircraft is the United States, with ... general-purpose bomb (from the article "bomb") ...Fragmentation bombs, by contrast, explode into a mass of small, fast-moving metal fragments that are ... general-purpose classroom (from the article "pedagogy") The modern interest in resources for learning has led to the concepts of general-purpose classrooms, ... general-system analysis (from the article "international relations") The so-called general-system perspective on international relations, which attempts to develop a comprehensive understanding of ... Generale Aeronautique Marcel Dassault (from the article "Dassault, Marcel") After the war Bloch changed his last name to Dassault (a nom de guerre of ... Generale des Carrieres et des Mines (from the article "Tshombe, Moise") ...of Conakat (Confederation des Associations Tribales du Katanga), a political party that was supported by ... Generalife (from the article "Alhambra") To the east on the Cerro del Sol ("Hill of the Sun") is the Generalife ... generalite the basic administrative unit of 17th- and 18th-century France. It was first established in the ... [2 Related Articles] generalitet (from the article "Russia") ...her accept a set of conditions that left to the council the decisive voice in ... generalization in psychology, the tendency to respond in the same way to different but similar stimuli. ... [6 Related Articles] generalized anxiety disorder (from the article "diagnosis") Generalized anxiety disorder is the unrealistic or excessive worry about two or more life circumstances ... generalized continuum hypothesis (from the article "set theory") Of far greater significance for the foundations of set theory is the status of AC ... generalized coordinates (from the article "Lagrange, Joseph-Louis, comte de l'Empire") ...from the path that describes the actual history of the system. This led to independent ... generalized hologram (from the article "optics") A further technique that has some value and relates to the earlier discussion of optical ... generalized momentum (from the article "mechanics") There is an even more powerful method called Hamilton's equations. It begins by defining a ... generalized seizure (from the article "epilepsy") Generalized seizures are the result of abnormal electrical activity in most or all of the ... generalized tonic-clonic seizure (from the article "epilepsy") Generalized tonic-clonic seizures, sometimes referred to by the older term grand mal, are commonly known ... generalized velocity (from the article "mechanics") ...may be reduced to a smaller number of independent generalized coordinates (written symbolically as q1, ... generally accepted accounting principles (from the article "accounting") ...is obtained from the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), an independent standard-setting organization based in ... Generally Recognized As Safe (from the article "food preservation") ...before it may be used in food products. To suppress yeast and mold growth in ... generate-and-test method (from the article "thought") Often the least systematic of the problem-solving heuristics, the generate-and-test method involves generating alternative courses ... generating function (from the article "combinatorics") ...constructed of a sum of products of the type fnxn, the convergence of which is ... Generation of 1898 in Spain, the novelists, poets, essayists, and thinkers active at the time of the Spanish-American ... [3 Related Articles] Generation of 1927 in Spain, a group of poets and other writers who rose to prominence in the ... [4 Related Articles] generation time (from the article "population ecology") The other value needed to calculate the rate at which the population can grow is ... generationism (from the article "Frohschammer, Jakob") ...and Menschseele und Physiologie (1855; "Human Souls and Physiology"). They were placed on the church's ... Generative Art (from the article "Latin American art") ...the 1960s that seem to billow and scintillate with closely placed contrasting colours, qualities that ... generative grammar a precisely formulated set of rules whose output is all (and only) the sentences of ... [5 Related Articles] generative nucleus (from the article "reproductive system, plant") The reproductive cycle in angiosperms can be traced from before the shedding of pollen. The ... generative semantics (from the article "semantics") According to the original formulation of generative or transformational grammar, the semantic and the syntactic ... generator (from the article "machine") ...and internal-combustion engines are prime movers. In these machines the inputs vary; the outputs are ... generator rating (from the article "electric generator") The capacity of a synchronous generator is equal to the product of the voltage per ... generatrix (from the article "cone") The generatrix of a cone is assumed to be infinite in length, extending in both ... generic drug (from the article "Business Overview") ...on a number of fronts-from federal regulators, who gained greater supervisory powers and shot down ... generic name (from the article "toponymy") Habitation and feature names are either generic or specific, or a combination of the two. ... genero chico (Spanish: "little genre"), Spanish literary genre of light dramatic or operatic one-act playlets, as contrasted ... [1 Related Articles] Generosite, Ordre de la (from the article "Pour le Merite") distinguished Prussian order established by Frederick II the Great in 1740, which had a military ... Genesee county, northwestern New York state, U.S., located in a lowland region with several swamps, midway ... Genesee River river mainly in New York state, U.S. The Genesee flows generally north from its headwaters ... Genesis British progressive rock group noted for their atmospheric sound in the 1970s and extremely popular ... [1 Related Articles] Genesis (from the article "Physical Sciences") The first attempt since the early 1970s to bring to Earth materials collected from outer ... Genesis the first book of the Old Testament. Its name derives from the opening words: "In ... [19 Related Articles] Genesis 2 (from the article "Physical Sciences") Regarding private manned space flight, Bigelow Aerospace proceeded with plans to develop a space motel. ... Genesis Apocryphon pseudepigraphal work (not accepted in any canon of scripture), one of the most important works ... Genesis I (from the article "Physical Sciences") Bigelow Aerospace took a major step toward the privately funded construction of a space station ... Genesius, Joseph Byzantine scholar whose history of Constantinople is one of the few known sources on the ... genet any of about five species of lithe, catlike carnivores of the genus Genetta, family Viverridae. ... [2 Related Articles] Genet Pass (from the article "Atlas Mountains") ...Middle Atlas. Passes are natural routes across the mountain barriers and thus constitute strategic points. ... Genet, Edmond-Charles French emissary to the United States during the French Revolution who severely strained Franco-American relations ... [2 Related Articles]

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