Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of secretary, secant, second, section, etc.
- noun An abbreviation of
secundum , according to. - Dry: said of champagne and other wines: opposed to sweet.
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- abbreviation
section
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- noun 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
- noun an independent federal agency that oversees the exchange of securities to protect investors
- adjective (of champagne) moderately dry
- noun ratio of the hypotenuse to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle
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Examples
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However, one of the items causing prolonged mental harm listed in Sec. 2340 (see the link I provided above) is the threat of imminent death; there is no way to use this as proof of torture since terrorists are under that threat as part of their job descriptions since they try to kill people while killing themselves.
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Sec. is fine, as long as income tax payers agree to cough up what they owe.
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Sec. is fine for 30-40 years, no trimming required, absolutely independent of the costs of health care, rutabagas, or diet Coke.
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It never made sense to us to be part of Commerce and NOAA always got the short stick in terms of policy impact relative to say the EPA or Interior because the Commerce Sec. is never a marine science type but always a trade/business type.
Matthew Yglesias » Judd Gregg Hates the Commerce Department 2009
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First of all, Undersecretary Sales and her team at the DOF spent a lot of time studying the rules/laws/regulations involving this matter beforehand, and found that in Sec. 105 of the Tariffs and Customs Codes, there really is a provision for a 1% duty on imported books (“educational, cultural, etc.”) that are for sale and for profit, and she said that the Florence Agreement was addressed here in this specific section.
On the Great Book Blockade of 2009 (Updated 7 May) (with BDAP Paper) « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009
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Sec. is fine, as long as income tax payers agree to cough up what they owe.
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However, if the business was profitable in 2009, it can benefit from electing first-year expensing, also called the Sec. 179 deduction.
Good Year, Bad Year: There's Tax Breaks Either Way Barbara Weltman 2010
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However, if the business was profitable in 2009, it can benefit from electing first-year expensing, also called the Sec. 179 deduction.
Good Year, Bad Year: There's Tax Breaks Either Way Barbara Weltman 2010
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We will start with equations, which are described in Sec. ~\ref {sec: equations}!
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However, if the business was profitable in 2009, it can benefit from electing first-year expensing, also called the Sec. 179 deduction.
Good Year, Bad Year: There's Tax Breaks Either Way Barbara Weltman 2010
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