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  3. Checkers speech - Wikipedia

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    The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952, by Senator Richard Nixon (R-CA), six weeks before the 1952 United States presidential election, in which he was the Republican nominee for Vice President.

  4. FedEx - Wikipedia

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    FedEx's other main competitor is the United States Postal Service (USPS), as USPS offers an overnight service (Priority Mail Express), a 2-5 day service (Priority Mail), and an economy/ground service (First Class, Parcel Select Ground).

  5. List of mergers and acquisitions by Yahoo - Wikipedia

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    Yahoo's first acquisition was the purchase of Net Controls, a web search engine company, in September 1997 for US$1.4 million. As of April 2008, the company's largest acquisition is the purchase of Broadcast.com , an Internet radio company, for $5.7 billion, making Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban a billionaire.

  6. List of shorthand systems - Wikipedia

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    Burmese Shorthand 1952 Zwe Ohn Chein Burmese Burnz' Fonic Shorthand: 1896: Eliza Boardman Burnz: English: Carissimi Shorthand [11] 1940: Juan Antonio Carissimi: Spanish: Caton Scientific Shorthand [12] [13] Thomas Jasper Caton: Century 21 Shorthand [14] Characterie [15] 1588: Timothy Bright: English: Conen de Prépean Shorthand [16] 1813: Louis ...

  7. Canadian postal abbreviations for provinces and territories

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    These abbreviations are fully compatible with the equivalent two-letter codes used for states and territorial areas of the United States, because no abbreviations overlap. The policy of not overlapping adjacent-country abbreviations, which helps the postal processing system avoid dealing with naming collisions, precludes use of NV for Nunavut ...

  8. List of mathematical abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    A – adele ring or algebraic numbers. a.a.s. – asymptotically almost surely. AC – Axiom of Choice, [1] or set of absolutely continuous functions. a.c. – absolutely continuous.

  9. Isaac Pitman - Wikipedia

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    Sir Isaac Pitman (4 January 1813 – 22 January 1897) [1] was an English publisher and teacher of the English language who developed the most widely used system of shorthand, known now as Pitman shorthand. He first proposed this in Stenographic Soundhand in 1837. He was vice-president of the Vegetarian Society.