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This is a list of all initiatives that have appeared before Washington voters from 1914 to 2005, listed by number, subject, and result. (A) indicates the initiative was approved; (R) indicates it was rejected. In political science, the initiative (also known as popular or citizens initiative) provides a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote on a proposed statute, constitutional amendment, charter amendment, or ordinance. ...
State nickname: The Evergreen State Other U.S. States Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Governor Christine Gregoire (D) Senators Patty Murray (D) Maria Cantwell (D) Official languages None Area 184,824 km² (18th) - Land 172,587 km² - Water 12,237 km² (6. ...
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- 3, regarding alcohol prohibition (A)
- 6, regarding the Blue Sky Law (securities regulation) (R)
- 7, abolishing the Bureau of Inspection (R)
- 8, abolishing Employment Offices (A)
- 9, regarding first aid to the injured (R)
- 10, regarding convict labor (R)
- 13, regarding the Eight-Hour Law (working hours) (R)
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Bottles of cachaça, a Brazilian alcoholic beverage. ...
Prohibition agents destroying barrels of alcohol. ...
A security is a type of transferrable interest representing financial value. ...
First aid is a series of simple, life-saving medical techniques that a non-doctor or layman can be trained to perform. ...
- 18, regarding the Brewers' Hotel (R)
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- 40, regarding the poll tax (A)
- 46, regarding the "30-10" school plan (R)
1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
A poll tax, head tax, or capitation is a tax of a uniform, fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income). ...
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Transmission lines in Lund, Sweden Electric power, often known as power or electricity, involves the production and delivery of electrical energy in sufficient quantities to operate domestic appliances, office equipment, industrial machinery and provide sufficient energy for both domestic and commercial lighting, heating, cooking and industrial processes. ...
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Redistricting, known as redistribution in many Commonwealth countries, is the changing of political borders (in many countries, specifically the electoral district/constituency boundaries) usually in response to periodic census results. ...
1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...
Alcoholic beverages are drinks containing ethanol, popularly called alcohol. ...
Game is any animal hunted for food. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
The mill or mille(â‚¥) (sometimes mil in the UK) is an abstract unit of currency. ...
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- 77, regarding fishing and fish traps (A)
- 94, regarding a tax limit of 40 mills (A)
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Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
The mill or mille(â‚¥) (sometimes mil in the UK) is an abstract unit of currency. ...
- 101, regarding civil service (R)
- 114, regarding a tax limit of 40 mills (A)
- 115, regarding old-age pensions (R)
- 119, regarding production for use (R)
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A civil servant or public servant is a civilian career public sector employee working for a government department or agency. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
The mill or mille(â‚¥) (sometimes mil in the UK) is an abstract unit of currency. ...
A pension (also known as superannuation) is a retirement plan intended to provide a person with a secure income for life. ...
- 126, establishing nonpartisan election of school boards (A)
- 129, regarding a tax limit of 40 mills (A)
- 130, regarding the regulation of labor disputes (R)
1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Jump to: navigation, search An election is a decision making process whereby people vote for preferred political candidates or parties to act as representatives in government. ...
This article or section should be merged with board of education A school board (or school committee) is an elected council that helps determine educational policy in a small regional area, such as a city, state, or province. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
The mill or mille(â‚¥) (sometimes mil in the UK) is an abstract unit of currency. ...
- 139, regarding public utility district bonds (R)
- 141, regarding old-age pensions (A)
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In finance, a bond is a debt security, i. ...
A pension (also known as superannuation) is a retirement plan intended to provide a person with a secure income for life. ...
- 151, liberalizing old-age assistance laws (R)
This article is about the year. ...
- 157, regarding old-age assistance (R)
- 158, regarding old-age assistance (R)
1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
- 166, regarding public utility districts (R)
1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that...
Spirits redirects here. ...
For specific national programs, see Social Security (United States), National insurance (UK), Social Security (Sweden) Social security mainly refers to a field of social welfare concerned with social protection, or protection against socially recognized needs, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment, families with children and others. ...
- 176, raising public assistance grants to a minimum of $65/month (R)
- 178, modifying the Citizens' Security Act and transferring the public assistance medical program to the state Department of Health (A)
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Welfare has four main meanings. ...
- 180, allowing the manufacture, sale, and use of colored margarine (A)
- 181, establishing the statewide observance of standard time (A)
- 184, liberalizing old-age pension laws (R)
1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Margarine is a generic term used to indicate any of a wide range of butter substitutes. ...
Universal Time (UT) is a timescale based on the rotation of the Earth. ...
A pension (also known as superannuation) is a retirement plan intended to provide a person with a secure income for life. ...
1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Chiropractic, also known as chiropractic care, is a health care discipline that claims to prevent and treat health problems by using spinal adjustments in order to correct misalignments, or subluxations. ...
The Chinook or King Salmon is the largest salmon in North America and can grow up to 58 long and 126 pounds. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A lobster boat unloading its catch in Ilfracombe harbour, North Devon, England A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ...
Daylight saving time (also called DST, or summer time) is the portion of the year in which a regions local time is advanced by (usually) one hour from its official standard time. ...
Generally speaking, advertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas by an identified sponsor. ...
Alcoholic beverages are drinks containing ethanol, popularly called alcohol. ...
- 198, regarding employer-employee relations (R)
- 199, regarding legislative redistricting (A)
1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Redistricting, known as redistribution in many Commonwealth countries, is the changing of political borders (in many countries, specifically the electoral district/constituency boundaries) usually in response to periodic census results. ...
- 202, restricting labor agreements (R)
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Spirits redirects here. ...
A tavern is, loosely, a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and, more than likely, also be served food, though not licenced to put up guests. ...
A civil servant or public servant is a civilian career public sector employee working for a government department or agency. ...
A concurrent estate or co-tenancy is a concept in property law, particularly derived from the common law of real property, which describes the various ways in which property can be owned by more than one person at a given time. ...
Real property is a legal term encompassing real estate and ownership interests in real estate. ...
Daylight saving time (also called DST, or summer time) is the portion of the year in which a regions local time is advanced by (usually) one hour from its official standard time. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Redistricting, known as redistribution in many Commonwealth countries, is the changing of political borders (in many countries, specifically the electoral district/constituency boundaries) usually in response to periodic census results. ...
- 215, the Marine Recreation Land Act (A)
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1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...
A sales tax is a tax on consumption. ...
A use tax is a type of excise tax assessed upon tangible personal property purchased by a resident of the assessing state for use, storage or consumption of goods in that state (i. ...
Sunday is considered either the first or the seventh day of the week, between Saturday and Monday, and the second day of the weekend in some cultures. ...
A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a law restricting activities or sales of goods on Sunday, which had its roots in accommodating Christian Sunday worship, although it persists to this day more as a matter of tradition. ...
There are various types of trains designed for particular purposes, see rail transport operations. ...
- 242, establishing drivers' implied consent to intoxication tests (A)
- 245, reducing maximum retail service charges (A)
1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
- 251, regulating the imposition of taxes (R)
- 256, prohibiting certain nonrefundable beverage receptacles (bottle deposit) (R)
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A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
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Photo finish of a greyhound race in Tampa, Florida, USA on February 9, 1939 Greyhound racing is the sport of racing greyhounds. ...
Spirits redirects here. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Campaign finance refers to the means by which money is raised for political election campaigns. ...
Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body, in order to ensure that an individuals or organizations point of view is represented in the government. ...
- 282, limiting state elected officials' and judges' salary increases to 5.5% over 1965 and 1972 levels, respecitvely (A)
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// A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which is specified in an employment contract. ...
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An excise is an indirect tax or duty levied on items within a country. ...
Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offense or a capital crime. ...
Murder is both a legal and a moral term, that are not always coincident. ...
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A public utility is a company that maintains the infrastructure for a public service. ...
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- 335, outlawing businesses engaged in regular public display of pornographic films or sale of pornographic publications (A)
- 345, exempting most food products from sales tax (A)
- 348, repealing the new variable motor vehicle fuel tax and reinstating the old one (R)
1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...
Pornography (from Greek ποÏνογÏαφία pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) (also informally referred to as porn or porno) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ...
A sales tax is a tax on consumption. ...
// Introduction A fuel tax (also known as a petrol tax, gasoline tax, gas tax or fuel duty) is a sales tax imposed on the sale of fuel. ...
1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
Forced busing is the concept of achieving racial or economic integration in United States public schools by transporting schoolchildren to schools outside their area of residence. ...
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A Russian fissile material storage facility Underground Radioactive Material Sign Radioactive waste is waste material containing radioactive chemical elements that does not have a practical purpose. ...
1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In finance, a bond is a debt security, i. ...
A public utility is a company that maintains the infrastructure for a public service. ...
Inheritance tax, also known in some countries outside the United States as a death duty and referred to as an estate tax within the U.S, is a form of tax that may be levied upon the estate of a deceased person that is left to a living person or...
Inheritance tax, also known in some countries outside the United States as a death duty and referred to as an estate tax within the U.S, is a form of tax levied upon the bequest that a person may make in their will to a living person or organisation. ...
Inheritance tax, also known in some countries outside the United States as a death duty and referred to as an estate tax within the U.S, is a form of tax levied upon the bequest that a person may make in their will to a living person or organisation. ...
1982 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jump to: navigation, search In finance, interest has three general definitions. ...
The federal funds rate is the interest rate at which depository institutions lend balances (federal funds) at the Federal Reserve to other depository institutions overnight. ...
A typical mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on top. ...
Malted barley Malting is a process applied to cereal grains, in which the grains are made to germinate and then quickly dried before the plant develops. ...
Carbonated bubbles in a soda float to the surface. ...
A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ...
A sales tax is a tax on consumption. ...
Meanings of franchise: Full rights of citizenship given by a country or a town, especially suffrage (political franchise) In a wider sense: any right or privilege granted by constitution or statute. ...
- 456, petitioning Congress to decommercialize steelhead and enacting state policies respecting Indian rights and management of natural resources (A)
- 464, exempting the value of trade-ins from selling price on which sales tax is calculated (A)
- 471, outlawing public funding of abortions except to prevent the death of the pregnant woman or her unborn child (R)
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Binomial name Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum, 1792 The rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss, a. ...
A sales tax is a tax on consumption. ...
- 518, increasing the state minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.85 and then to $4.25 (A)
1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The minimum wage is the minimum rate a worker can legally be paid (usually per hour) as opposed to wages that are determined by the forces of supply and demand in a free market. ...
- 547, implementing state growth and environmental protection goals by local comprehensive land use planning and development fees (R)
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Urban, city, or town planning, deals with design of the built environment from the municipal and metropolitan perspective. ...
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A term limit is a provision of a constitution, statute or bylaw which limits the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. ...
A governor is also a device that regulates the speed of a machine. ...
A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ...
Jump to: navigation, search State legislatures are the lawmaking bodies of the 50 states in the United States of America. ...
A congress is a gathering of people, especially a gathering for a political purpose. ...
// Property tax is an ad valorem tax that an owner of real estate or other property pays on the value of the thing taxed. ...
Cost of Living is the name of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, from the fifth season. ...
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A term limit is a provision of a constitution, statute or bylaw which limits the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. ...
1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ...
Three strikes laws are a category of statutes enacted by state governments in the United States, beginning in the 1990s, to mandate long periods of imprisonment for persons convicted of a felony on three (or more) separate occasions. ...
for other uses please see Crime (disambiguation) A crime is an act that violates a political or moral law. ...
In law, a sentence forms the final act of a judge-ruled process, and also the symbolic principal act connected to his function. ...
Life imprisonment is a term used for a particular kind of sentence of imprisonment. ...
Parole can have different meanings depending on the context. ...
Population growth is changing of the amount of population over time. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
Income, generally defined, is the money that is received as a result of the normal business activities of an individual or a business. ...
- 607, licensing denturists to make and sell dentures to the public (A)
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- 640, establishing state fishing regulations to ensure certain survival rates for non-targeted catch, and prioritizing commercial and recreational fisheries (R)
- 651, allowing unrestricted gambling on Indian lands (R)
1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ...
A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ...
Gambling (or betting) is any behavior involving risking money or property (making a wager or placing a stake) on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event in which the outcome of that activity depends partially or totally upon chance or upon ones ability to do something. ...
In the United States an Indian reservation is land which is managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interiors Bureau of Indian Affairs. ...
Jump to: navigation, search 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Bear-baiting in the 18th century, engraving, 1796 Bear-baiting is a blood sport that was a popular entertainment from at least the 11th century in which a bear is secured to a post and then attacked by a number of dogs. ...
Hunting is, in its most general sense, the pursuit of a target. ...
For other meanings, see Bear (disambiguation). ...
A Cougar is: an animal, the Puma a helicopter type, the Eurocopter Cougar, with the civilian counterpart called Eurocopter Super Puma an armored military vehicle, the Cougar Hardened Engineer Vehicle, HEV [1] an older woman looking for companionship from a significantly younger man. ...
Binomial name Lynx rufus (Schreber, 1777) The Bobcat (Lynx rufus, or Felis rufus) is a small wild cat indigenous to North America. ...
Species Lynx lynx Lynx canadensis Lynx pardinus Lynx rufus A Lynx is any of several medium-sized wild cats. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris (Linnaeus, 1758) The dog is a canine carnivorous mammal that has been domesticated for at least 14,000 years and perhaps for as long as 150,000 years based on recent evidence. ...
A ballot is a device used to record choices made by voters. ...
A congress is a gathering of people, especially a gathering for a political purpose. ...
A term limit is a provision of a constitution, statute or bylaw which limits the number of terms a person may serve in a particular elected office. ...
Gambling (or betting) is any behavior involving risking money or property (making a wager or placing a stake) on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event in which the outcome of that activity depends partially or totally upon chance or upon ones ability to do something. ...
In the United States an Indian reservation is land which is managed by a Native American tribe under the United States Department of the Interiors Bureau of Indian Affairs. ...
1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Health insurance is a type of insurance whereby the insurer pays the medical costs of the insured if the insured becomes sick due to covered causes, or due to accidents. ...
A handgun is a firearm small enough to be carried and used in one hand. ...
To discriminate is to make a distinction. ...
Sexual orientation refers to the sex or gender of people who are the focus of a persons amorous or erotic desires, fantasies, and spontaneous feelings, the gender(s) toward which one is primarily oriented. The alternative terms sexual preference and sexual inclination have similar meanings. ...
Oral hygiene is keeping the mouth clean. ...
X-rays can reveal if a person has cavities Dentistry is the practical application of knowledge of dental science (the science of placement, arrangement, function of teeth) to human beings. ...
Cannabis sativa extract. ...
Retail selling Street selling is the bottom of the chain and can be accomplished through purchasing from prostitutes, through cloaked retail stores or refuse houses for users in the act located in red-light districts which often also deal in paraphernalia, dealers marketing merriment at night clubs and other events...
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The minimum wage is the minimum rate a worker can legally be paid (usually per hour) as opposed to wages that are determined by the forces of supply and demand in a free market. ...
Cannabis sativa extract. ...
Partial birth abortion (PBA) refers to most intact dilation and extraction (IDX) procedures where the fetus is alive at the time of the procedure — thus resulting in an abortion of the fetus. ...
- 695, lowering motor vehicle excise tax (license tab fees) to $30 per year, requiring voter approval be required for any tax increase, and repealing existing vehicle taxes (A)
- 696, outlawing commercial net, troll, and trawl fishing, except for tribal fisheries (R)
1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
Fishing industry is the commercial activity of fishing and producing fish and other seafood products. ...
A gillnet is a type of fishing net, a type of which is the driftnet (which is a drifting gillnet - i. ...
Trawling is a method of fishing that involves actively pulling a fishing net through the water behind one or more boats. ...
Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A lobster boat unloading its catch in Ilfracombe harbour, North Devon, England A fishery (plural: fisheries) is an organized effort by humans to catch fish or other aquatic species, an activity known as fishing. ...
- 713, outlawing certain body-gripping animal traps and the poisoning of animals with sodium fluoroacetate or sodium cyanide (A)
- 722, repealing certain 1999 taxes, exempting vehicles from property taxes, and limiting annual property tax increases to 2% (A)
- 728, reducing class sizes, extending learning programs, expanding teacher training, and constructing school facilities (A)
- 729, authorizing charter schools (R)
- 732, establishing annual cost-of-living salary raises for public school teachers (A)
- 745, earmarking 90% of transportation funds, including transit taxes, for roads, requiring transportation agency performance audits, and exempting road construction and maintenance from sales tax (R)
This article is about the year 2000. ...
The human activity of animal trapping consists of hunting for animals to obtain their furs, which are then used for clothes and other artifacts, or sold / bartered (see fur trade). ...
The skull and crossbones symbol traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ...
1080 is the commonly used name for sodium fluoroacetate (also known as sodium monofluoroacetate), a potent metabolic poison used primarily to control mammallian pests. ...
Sodium cyanide is a highly toxic chemical compound, also known as sodium salt of hydrocyanic acid and cyanogran. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
Vehicles are non-living means of transportation. ...
// Property tax is an ad valorem tax that an owner of real estate or other property pays on the value of the thing taxed. ...
A school is most commonly a place designated for learning. ...
In the United States, a charter school is a public school that is created via a legal charter. ...
Cost of Living is the name of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, from the fifth season. ...
// A salary is a form of periodic payment from an employer to an employee, which is specified in an employment contract. ...
The term public school has different meanings: In Scotland, Australia, the United States and most other English-speaking nations, a school which does not charge tuition fees but is financed and/or controlled by the state, in contrast to a private school (also known as an independent school); here the...
In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill, including learning and thinking skills. ...
The word transit, when used alone, has several possible meanings in English a modern rock band in Dallas, TX - [[]http://www. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
Jump to: navigation, search A typical rural county road in Indiana, USA, where traffic drives on the right. ...
An agency is a department of a local or national government responsible for the oversight and administration of a specific function, such as a customs agency or a space agency. ...
An audit is an evaluation of an organization, system, process, or product. ...
A sales tax is a tax on consumption. ...
- 747, limiting annual property tax increases to 1% unless approved by the voters (A)
- 773, imposing additional taxes on cigarettes and wholesale tobacco products, to be spent on expanded health care services for low-income persons (A)
- 775, creating a "home care quality authority" to regulate home care of the elderly and disabled (A)
Jump to: navigation, search 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
// Property tax is an ad valorem tax that an owner of real estate or other property pays on the value of the thing taxed. ...
A tax is a compulsory charge or other levy imposed on an individual or a legal entity by a state or a functional equivalent of a state (e. ...
A cigarette will burn to ash on one end. ...
Wholesaling consists of the sale of goods/merchandise to retailers, to industrial, commercial, institutional, or other professional business users or to other wholesalers and related subordinated services. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Species N. glauca N. longiflora N. rustica N. sylvestris N. tabacum Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005 Tobacco (, L.) refers to a genus of broad-leafed plants of the nightshade family indigenous to North and South America or to the dried and cured leaves. ...
Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions [1]. The healthcare industry is one of the worlds largest and fastest-growing industries, consuming over 10...
Home care is health care provided in the home by healthcare professionals (often referred to as home health care or formal care) or by family and friends (informal care). ...
Old age consists of ages nearing the average lifespan of human beings, and thus the end of the human life cycle. ...
The term disability, as it is applied to humans, refers to any condition that impedes the completion of daily tasks using traditional methods. ...
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For the band, see The Police. ...
Firefighter with an axe A firefighter, sometimes still called a fireman though women have increasingly joined firefighting units, is a person who is trained and equipped to put out fires, rescue people and in some areas provide emergency medical services. ...
A retirement plan is an arrangement to provide people with an income, or pension, during retirement, when they are no longer earning a steady income from employment. ...
- 841, repealing existing state ergonomics regulations and prohibiting the adoption of new regulations until a uniform federal standard is required (A)
2003(MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jump to: navigation, search It has been suggested that Human factors be merged into this article or section. ...
- 892, authorizing "electronic scratch ticket machines" (slot machines) in non-tribal establishments, part of the revenue generated being used to reduce property tax (R)
2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A primary election is an election in which registered voters in a jurisdiction select a political partys candidate for a later election (nominating primary). ...
A general election is an election in which all members of a given political body are up for election. ...
A sales tax is a tax on consumption. ...
Slot machines in the Trump Taj Mahal A slot machine (American English), poker machine (Australian English), or fruit machine (British English) is a certain type of gambling machine. ...
Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ...
// Property tax is an ad valorem tax that an owner of real estate or other property pays on the value of the thing taxed. ...
- 330, (concerning medical malpractice) changing laws governing claims for negligent healthcare, including restricting noneconomic damages to $350,000, shortening time limits for filing cases, limiting repayments to insurers and limiting claimants' attorney fees.
- 336, (concerning medical malpractice) require notices and hearings on insurance rate increases; establish a supplemental malpractice insurance program; require license revocation proceedings after three malpractice incidents; and limit numbers of expert witnesses in lawsuits.
- 900, expanding the power of the state auditor to do more performance audits and drawing money from the general fund to pay for another layer of audits.
- 901, prohibiting smoking in buildings and vehicles open to the public and places of employment, including areas within 25 feet of doorways and ventilation openings.
- 908, amends current law to only require the use of a rear license plate on motor vehicles. Currently, the state requires use of both front and rear plates. (proposed)
- 912, rolling back a key component (the gas tax) of the 2005 transportation funding package, which the Legislature passed to improve road safety and relieve congestion.
Jump to: navigation, search 2005 (Roman: MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Medical malpractice is lay terminology for negligence that occurs in respect of a doctors treatment of a patient. ...
An audit is an evaluation of an organization, system, process, or product. ...
No smoking sign Smoking bans are government prohibitions on tobacco smoking in public or quasi-public indoor areas such as offices, restaurants, hotels, or even outdoor public areas such as parks and sports stadiums. ...
// Introduction A license plate, number plate or registration plate (often referred to simply as a plate, or colloquially tag) is a small metal or plastic plate attached to a motor vehicle for official identification purposes. ...
A gasoline tax (also known as a gas tax, petrol tax, fuel tax or fuel duty) is a sales tax imposed on the sale of gasoline. ...
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