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the term that means to maintain public order and to prevent violence and other unlawful behaviour.

A parent company and a subsidiary imitate such a contract to guarantee the subsidiary all necessary financing over a specified time-period. The parent company provides this. This contracted support gives potential lenders greater confidence, making the subsidiary more creditworthy.

A group of companies who have a shared interest but are not organized into a central company. Refer to Chaebol.

Learning material presented in small units of personalized instruction. Behavioral psychologist Fred Keller, developed this approach, which bears his name. Instructors only facilitate, grade as pass or fail, administer no punishment at any learning stage. A student takes a test on the completed unit when the student feels ready to do so. Depending on the result, other units are given at the student’s pace.

In old records. A cart-load. Cowell; Blount

Irish physicist William Thomson (1824-1907),honored as 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord William Kelvin), developed this scale. Temperature scale beginning at absolute zero (273.15

In Swedish law. Jettison; a literal translation of the Latin “jactus.”

An edict or award between Henry III. and those who had been in arms against him; so called because made at Kenilworth Castle, in War- wickshire, anno 51 Hen. III., A. D. 1260. It coutained a composition of those who had forfeited their estates in that rebellion, which composition was five years’ rent of the es- tates forfeited. Wharton.

See INSANITY.

In Scotch law. The act of the sheriff in ascertaining the just proportion of the husband’s lauds which belong to the widow in right of her terce or dower. Bell.