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  2. Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 - Wikipedia

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    Sen. James J. Davis (R-PA) and Rep. Robert L. Bacon (R–NY-1), the co-sponsors of the Davis–Bacon Act. The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics.

  3. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The overuse of medical benefits is known as moral hazard—individuals who are insured are then more inclined to consume healthcare. The way the healthcare system tries to eliminate this problem is through cost sharing tactics like copays and deductibles.

  4. Beacon frame - Wikipedia

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    802.11 Beacon frame. A beacon frame is a type of management frame in IEEE 802.11 WLANs. It contains information about the network. Beacon frames are transmitted periodically; they serve to announce the presence of a wireless LAN and to provide a timing signal to synchronise communications with the devices using the network (the members of a service set).

  5. East London, South Africa - Wikipedia

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    John Bailie, one of the 1820 Settlers, surveyed the Buffalo River mouth and founded the town in 1836. There is a memorial on Signal Hill commemorating the event. [5] The city formed around the only river port in South Africa and was originally known as Port Rex.

  6. International Beacon Project - Wikipedia

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    It transmitted a 1 minute-long beacon every 10 minutes on 14.1 MHz using custom built transmitter and controller hardware. The signal consisted of the beacon's call sign transmitted in Morse code at 100 watts, four 9 second long dashes, each at 100 watts, 10 watts, 1 watt, and 0.1 watt, followed by sign-out at 100 watts. [3]

  7. Beacon Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Beacon Mountain, locally Mount Beacon, is the highest peak of Hudson Highlands, located south of City of Beacon, New York, in the Town of Fishkill.Its two summits rise above the Hudson River behind the city and can easily be seen from Newburgh across the river and many other places in the region.

  8. Automatic Packet Reporting System - Wikipedia

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    APRS beacon transmitter with GPS receiver. Automatic Packet Reporting System ( APRS ) is an amateur radio -based system for real time digital communications of information of immediate value in the local area. [ 1 ]

  9. Beacon Building Products - Wikipedia

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    By 2002, Beacon had surpassed $500 million in revenue. Early in fiscal 2004, Robert R. Buck joined the company and succeed Andrew Logie as president and CEO. [9] To obtain money to grow the company, Beacon went public with an initial public offering on the NASDAQ stock exchange, on September 23, 2004. [10]