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  2. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    Share issued by Hope & Co. in 1804 to finance the Louisiana Purchase. To pay for the land, the American government used a mix of sovereign bonds and the assumption of French debts. Earlier in 1803, Francis Baring and Company of London had become the U.S. government's official banking agent in London following the failure of Bird, Savage & Bird.

  3. Spectrum auction - Wikipedia

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    A spectrum auction is a process whereby a government uses an auction system to sell the rights to transmit signals over specific bands of the electromagnetic spectrum and to assign scarce spectrum resources. Depending on the specific auction format used, a spectrum auction can last from a single day to several months from the opening bid to the ...

  4. Total dissolved solids - Wikipedia

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    Total dissolved solids ( TDS) is a measure of the dissolved combined content of all inorganic and organic substances present in a liquid in molecular, ionized, or micro-granular ( colloidal sol) suspended form. TDS are often measured in parts per million (ppm). TDS in water can be measured using a digital meter.

  5. Liberty Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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    Liberty Communications of Puerto Rico LLC ( d/b/a Liberty) is a telecommunications company that provides broadband Internet access, VoIP, television and wireless services covering the entire island of Puerto Rico (wireless in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands ). The company is headquartered in San Juan and has over a million television ...

  6. Capital gains tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In the United States, individuals and corporations pay a tax on the net total of all their capital gains. The tax rate depends on both the investor's tax bracket and the amount of time the investment was held. Short-term capital gains are taxed at the investor's ordinary income tax rate and are defined as investments held for a year or ...

  7. Tektronix - Wikipedia

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    Tektronix, historically widely known as Tek, is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment. Originally an independent company, it is now a subsidiary of Fortive, a spinoff from Danaher Corporation .

  8. Income tax in India - Wikipedia

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    Corporate taxes (33.99%) Other taxes (2.83%) Excise taxes (20.84%) Customs duties (17.46%) Other taxes (8.68%) other taxes (11.96%) Income tax in India is governed by Entry 82 of the Union List of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution of India, empowering the central government to tax non-agricultural income; agricultural income is defined ...

  9. Paul Murphy (Irish politician) - Wikipedia

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    University College Dublin. Paul Murphy (born 13 April 1983) is an Irish People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency since the 2014 Dublin South-West by-election. [2] He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2011 to 2014.