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  2. Military retirement (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Years of service beyond 20 years applied a multiple of 3.5%, which allowed long-serving members who achieved 30 years of service to continue to receive the maximum 75% of their pay in retirement. This system remained in place until 1999, when President Clinton repealed the "REDUX" system as part of the National Defense Authorization Act of ...

  3. History of Louisville, Kentucky - Wikipedia

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    View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site.

  4. Great Fire of Toronto (1904) - Wikipedia

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    Toronto Fire Services Public Education Centre and Museum at Station 233 has a model displaying the area of the fire. A 1904 film, The Great Fire of Toronto , created by George Scott & Co. about the event, was the first to be shot in Toronto.

  5. Chicago Pneumatic - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Pneumatic, also known as "CP", is an industrial manufacturer providing power tools, air compressors, generators, light towers and hydraulic equipment.Products are sold in more than 150 countries through a worldwide distribution network.

  6. Services Australia - Wikipedia

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    Services Australia, formerly the Department of Human Services and before that the Department of Social Security, is an executive agency of the Australian Government, responsible for delivering a range of welfare payments, health insurance payments, child support payments and other support services to eligible Australian citizens and permanent residents. [6]

  7. AT&T - Wikipedia

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    AT&T is also the largest provider of mobile telephone [81] [82] services and the largest provider of fixed telephone (landline) services in the United States. [ 83 ] In September 2019, activist investor Elliott Management revealed that it had purchased $3.2 billion of AT&T stock (a 1.2% equity interest), and had pushed for the company to divest ...

  8. Telephone numbers in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    The two major ISPs in Malaysia, TMNet and Jaring are assigned numbers in the 015-4 prefix to provide VoIP (also known as Telephony Service over IP, TSoIP) service. New numbers are assigned in smaller blocks of 10,000, 100,000 or 1,000,000 numbers, as opposed to the previous practice of assigning a whole prefix to an operator, which is a block ...

  9. Adenosine diphosphate ribose - Wikipedia

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    Adenosine diphosphate ribose (ADPR) is an ester molecule formed into chains by the enzyme poly ADP ribose polymerase. [1] ADPR is created from cyclic ADP-ribose (cADPR) by the CD38 enzyme using nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD +) as a cofactor. [1] ADPR binds to and activates the TRPM2 ion channel. [2] ADPR is the most potent agonist of ...