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  • 121Steel plate shear wall — A steel plate shear wall (SPSW) consists of steel infill plates bounded by a column beam system. Overview When these infill plates occupy each level within a framed bay of a structure, they constitute an SPSW [Kharrazi, M.H.K., 2005, “Rational… …

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  • 122Jardine Paper — is the proposal sent by Dr. William Jardine (surgeon) to Lord Palmerston to guide the British government in its plans to wage war with China which eventually was called the First Opium War.The actual strategy of Britian in the First Opium War… …

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  • 123electronic paper — n. A thin, flexible sheet with the look and feel of paper, but that contains microscopic particles that display as either white or black in response to electrical charges. Example Citation: Electronic paper could be bound together into book or… …

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  • 124The Wall Street Journal Europe — is a version of The Wall Street Journal with daily news and analysis of global business developments for a European audience. It was founded in 1983, and is now printed in six European countries, and distributed in over 50 countries in the region …

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  • 125Nicaragua War White Paper — The Nicaragua White Paper, drafted by a young intelligence officer named Jon D. Glassman, was a sensationalized piece of psyops propaganda[1] published by the U.S. State Department in February 1981; its purpose was to use public diplomacy to… …

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  • 126Chinese wall —    the pretence that price sensitive information will not be used by an adviser or his associates to their own advantage    Said to have been first used in this context by F. D. Roosevelt in 1927. The paper thin nature of such a wall may prevent… …

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  • 127multi-wall — mulˈti wall adjective Made of three or more layers of special paper • • • Main Entry: ↑multi …

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  • 128dry·wall — /ˈdraıˌwɑːl/ noun [noncount] US : building material that is used for making walls and ceilings and that is made of large sheets of plaster covered with thick paper : ↑plasterboard …

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