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2. Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act - Wikipedia

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   The Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, 33 U.S.C. §§ 901 – 950, commonly referred to as the "Longshore Act" or "LHWCA" is federal workers' compensation law/act enacted in 1927. Initially, it mandated coverage to employees injured on navigable waters of the United States. Today, it mandates that coverage be provided to certain ...

3. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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   void, gap A situation arising that is not covered by any law, especially when related situations are covered by the law or where the situation appears to fall "between" multiple laws. Generally used in International Law, which is less comprehensive than most domestic legal systems. lex communis: common law Alternate form of jus commune. Refers ...

4. Firebreak - Wikipedia

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   Firebreak. A firebreak or double track (also called a fire line, fuel break, fireroad and firetrail in Australia) is a gap in vegetation or other combustible material that acts as a barrier to slow or stop the progress of a bushfire or wildfire. A firebreak may occur naturally where there is an absence of vegetation or "fuel", such as a river ...

5. Analyst dubs Speaker’s stopgap funding bill a ‘disaster’

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   Political analyst Larry Sabato criticized Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) two-tier stop-gap government funding bill as a “disaster” on Saturday, after days of internal negotiations over the ...

6. Sudden stop (economics) - Wikipedia

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   Sudden stop (economics) A sudden stop in capital flows is defined as a sudden slowdown in private capital inflows into emerging market economies, and a corresponding sharp reversal from large current account deficits into smaller deficits or small surpluses. [1] Sudden stops are usually followed by a sharp decrease in output, private spending ...

7. Aviation insurance - Wikipedia

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   Aviation insurance is insurance coverage geared specifically to the operation of aircraft and the risks involved in aviation. Aviation insurance policies are distinctly different from those for other areas of transportation and tend to incorporate aviation terminology, as well as terminology, limits and clauses specific to aviation insurance.

8. Disability - Wikipedia

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   Some say medical humanities is a fruitful field where the gap between the medical and the social model of disability might be bridged. Social construction. The social construction of disability is the idea that disability is constructed by social expectations and institutions rather than biological differences.

9. Stop-loss policy - Wikipedia

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   Stop-loss policy. In the United States military, stop-loss is the involuntary extension of a service member's active duty service under the enlistment contract in order to retain them beyond their initial end of term of service (ETS) date and up to their contractually agreed end of active obligated service (EAOS).