Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
- abbreviation hypersonic transport
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- initialism Hawaiian Standard Time.
- initialism Canada Harmonized Sales Tax, a combined
federal andprovincial sales tax collected in someprovinces . - initialism Hubble Space Telescope
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Examples
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On Monday, June 14, 2010, Ontario Progressive Conservative Tim Hudak attacked what he called HST bribe cheques.
CTV News RSS Feed 2010
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One glib quote by the Tourism Minister was: “The HST is going to be good for all concerned, but there are going to be exceptions,” intoned B.C.
There is No Harmonization to Campbell’s New Tax « Colleen Anderson 2009
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We have foregone the opportunity to try it by investing heavily in HST servicing.
Astronauts Once Again Demonstrate Why Humans Must be a Part of Space Exploration - NASA Watch 2009
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HST is a good public relation tool as everyone agrees to its purpose and returns.
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SMD pays for certain HST servicing support tasks, which may well include some of Massimino's training.
NASA Astronaut Mike Massimino Breaks 100,000 Follower Mark on Twitter - NASA Watch 2009
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If the spare data handling unit for HST is delivered to Kennedy Space Center on time (next month), then Atlantis will launch on STS-125 on May 12.
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He lived in HST’s basement up at Owl Creek for a few months when they first met and became close friends.
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The 12% consumption levy, referred to as the HST, or harmonized sales tax, has sparked one of the most spirited debates in recent Canadian political history—pitting the provincial government against an unlikely coalition of right-wing, small-government advocates and the province's main left-wing opposition party.
Canada Province Is Poised to Repeal Sales Tax Paul Vieira 2011
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The one thing I would point out the Libs when they were in power thought the HST was a good idea and there were several provinces who bought into the merged tax a number of years ago including Quebec.
The Commons: You can have it both ways or no way at all - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca 2009
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"There's no question that the HST is the most effective form of … consumer tax that a country or a jurisdiction can implement," he said, adding the tax will create jobs.
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