a chest of drawers, often with a mirror at the top.
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a division of a government department or an independent administrative unit.
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an office for collecting or distributing news or information, coordinating work, or performing specified services; agency: a travel bureau; a news bureau.
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Chiefly British. a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
Social Security and Welfare Services Soon after taking office, U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton appointed his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton (see BIOGRAPHIES), to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. In September, after months of ...
Native American By the late 19th century the removal of the eastern tribes, the decimation of California peoples, a series of epidemics in the Plains, and the high mortality rates at boarding schools seemed to ...
cybercrime While breaching privacy to detect cybercrime works well when the crimes involve the theft and misuse of information, ranging from credit card numbers and personal data to file sharing of various ...
Social Protection Election-year pressures in 2000 generally dictated social protection activity in the United States. Though a torrent of proposals and much debate occurred, lawmakers postponed passing most new ...
Population and Human Relations The first U.S. Republican-controlled Congress in 40 years moved to cut back and dismantle welfare, health care, and other social policies launched during Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and ...
Social Protection As with so many other areas of life, social protection was deeply affected by the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11 and by the nation's prolonged economic downturn. High-priority ...
Consumer Affairs Global consumption continued to mirror the world's distribution of wealth. With more than one billion people still mired in absolute poverty in 1993, some 800 million consumers were unable to ...
Economic Affairs Industrywide consolidation, including significant cross-border transactions involving European banks and American securities firms, continued to reshape the global banking and financial services ...
higher education any of various types of education given in postsecondary institutions of learning and usually affording, at the end of a course of study, a named degree, diploma, or certificate of higher studies. ...
Dates of 2004 The World Trade Organization agrees that its new framework for global trade rules will include the elimination of farm subsidies in rich countries, including the U.S.
Belleville Intelligencer - Found 14 hours ago Canada's credit card industry is overwhelmingly dominated by giants Visa and MasterCard, and a new ... Competition Bureau commissioner Sheridan ...
TMC Net - Found Nov. 13, 2008 TORONTO, Nov. 13, 2008 (Canada NewsWire via COMTEX) -- Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) is warning ... demands the immediate payment, by credit ...
Hamilton Spectator - Found Nov. 10, 2008 Campbell, executive director of Credit Canada, a ... me.âTom Reid, director of consumer solutions for credit monitoring bureau TransUnion, ...
ArticleCat.com - Found Nov. 8, 2008 A credit bureau is a clearinghouse of information on consumers. When you fill out a credit ... 1920's had offices throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - Found Nov. 7, 2008 ... the Better Business Bureau. Mutual Consolidated Savings has been calling consumers in the Maritimes offering to negotiate a lower credit card...
CNW Telbec - Found Nov. 13, 2008 ... and demands the immediate payment, by credit card ... Insurance Bureau of Canada is the national industry association representing Canada's ...
CNW Telbec - Found Nov. 13, 2008 ... and demands the immediate payment, by credit card ... Insurance Bureau of Canada is the national industry association representing Canada's ...
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