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  2. South African Social Security Agency - Wikipedia

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    The South African Social Security Agency ( SASSA) is a national agency of the South African government created in April 2005 to administer South Africa's social security system, including by distributing social grants, on behalf of the Department of Social Development (DSD). It is under the oversight, but not the operational control, of DSD and ...

  3. ISO 4217 - Wikipedia

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    An airline ticket showing the price with ISO 4217 code "EUR" (bottom left) and not with euro currency sign " € "ISO 4217 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that defines alpha codes and numeric codes for the representation of currencies and provides information about the relationships between individual currencies and their minor units.

  4. Unstructured Supplementary Service Data - Wikipedia

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    Unstructured Supplementary Service Data ( USSD ), sometimes referred to as " quick codes " or " feature codes ", is a communications protocol used by GSM cellular telephones to communicate with the mobile network operator 's computers. USSD can be used for WAP browsing, prepaid callback service, mobile-money services, location-based content ...

  5. Open Game License - Wikipedia

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    The Open Game License ( OGL) is a public copyright license by Wizards of the Coast that may be used by tabletop role-playing game developers to grant permission to modify, copy, and redistribute some of the content designed for their games, notably game mechanics. However, they must share-alike copies and derivative works .

  6. List of Nintendo development teams - Wikipedia

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    SRD contributed to the Mario and Animal Crossing franchises, most of The Legend of Zelda, and some of Nintendo's more experimental projects, such as Nintendo Labo and Game Builder Garage. On 1 April 2022, SRD became a wholly owned subsidiary of Nintendo. Toshihiko Nakago is the Representative Director and President of the company.

  7. Launch status check - Wikipedia

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    A launch status check, also known as a "go/no go poll" and several other terms, occurs at the beginning of an American spaceflight mission in which flight controllers monitoring various systems are queried for operation and readiness status before a launch can proceed. For Space Shuttle missions, in the firing room at the Launch Control Center ...

  8. Social welfare programmes in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The cash assistance programmes that are currently available include the Child support Grant, the Foster child Grant, old-age pension, disability grant, care dependency grant, and war veterans grant. [8] There are both support and criticism regarding the social welfare programmes in South Africa.

  9. History of Social Security in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2009, nearly 51 million Americans received $650 billion in Social Security benefits. The effects of Social Security took decades to manifest themselves. In 1950, it was reported that as many as 40% of Americans over 65 were still employed in some capacity, but by 1980 that figure had dropped to less than 20%.