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1. Similar to a living organism, with clear and functional internal structure and consistent life cycle of birth, growth, decay, and death. 2. Compounds (natural or synthesized) that contain carbon.

An act of congress conferring powers of government upon a ter- ritory. In re Lane, 135 U. S. 443, 10 Sup. Ct. 700, 34 L. Ed. 219.

In 1913, William Howard Taft ratified this law that split the Department of Commerce and Labor into two separate departments (the Department of Law and the Department of Commerce).

Agricultural production processes that only use natural sources of nutrients and do not use synthesized chemicals or genetically modified crops.

The rate at which a company will grow using only its own resources, without borrowing or buying other firms.

The fundamental law, or constitution, of a state or nation, written or unwritten; that law or system of laws or principles which defines and establishes the organization of its government. St. Louis v. Dorr, 145 Mo. 400, 40 S. Y. 970, 42 L. R. A. OSG, OS Am. St. Rep. 575.

Organic organizations consist of employees of similar status without formal job titles or responsibilities, so individuals can perform the tasks to which they are best suited. Decision making is informal without resort to formal procedures, resulting in flexible organizations that can adapt to rapidly fluctuating circumstances.

A general chapter or other solemn convention of the religious of a par- ticular order. ORDINES MAJORES ET MINORES 860 ORIGINAL

Pollution that occurs when organic substances emit pollutants into the environment. These pollutants can usually be oxidized by naturally occurring micro-organisms.

In ecclesiastical law. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and subdeacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure were called “ordincs majores;” and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostiary, reader, ex- orcist. and acolyte were called “ordincs minorcs.” Persons ordained to the ordincs niinores had their prima, tonsura, different from the tonsura clericalis. Cowell.