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He's activated one of the biggest funds for natural India, called the Compensatory Afforestation Fund, or CAMPA, where the Supreme Court of India has ordered that 5000 crore rupees ($1.02 billion) will be used over the next five years to protect and regenerate the forests of India.
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Compensatory and/or adaptive techniques, including fabrication of splints and other adaptive devices
Occupational Therapy 2010
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Compensatory Rebound Effect is completely made up.
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Adzick NS, Harrison MR, Hu LM, Davies P, Reid LM: Compensatory lung growth after pneumonectomy in fetal lambs: A morphometric study.
Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation publications 2010
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Compensatory Rebound Effect is completely made up.
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Sauer L, Glick PL, Adzick NS, Harrison MR: Compensatory renal growth following nephrectomy in fetal lambs.
Obstructive Uropathy, Fetal Intervention for Obstructive Uropathy 2010
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The researchers say that people who lack power tend to compensate by improving their status, and because one way to do so is by flaunting expensive goods, they suggest the powerless will shell out more cash than the empowered for the same gaudy products. — “Desire to Acquire: Powerlessness and Compensatory Consumption,” Derek D. Rucker and Adam D. Galinsky, Journal of Consumer Research
Primary Sources 2008
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The researchers say that people who lack power tend to compensate by improving their status, and because one way to do so is by flaunting expensive goods, they suggest the powerless will shell out more cash than the empowered for the same gaudy products. — “Desire to Acquire: Powerlessness and Compensatory Consumption,” Derek D. Rucker and Adam D. Galinsky, Journal of Consumer Research
Primary Sources 2008
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Compensatory damages are money claimed by a person as compensation for loss or injury.
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Compensatory damages for alienation of affections can include loss of income where self-employed plaintiff submits evidence of income loss due to mental anguish, however, evidence of lost income was too speculative to establish claim.
The Volokh Conspiracy » My Torts Class, and Alienation of Affections: 2009
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