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This article lists songs and whole discographies which have been banned by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) over the years. During its history, the corporation has banned songs from a number of high-profile artists, including Cliff Richard, Frank Sinatra, Noël Coward, the Beatles, Ken Dodd, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, the BBC Dance Orchestra, Tom Lehrer, Glenn Miller, and George Formby.
Early on, the NATO alliance changed X-ray to Xray in its version of the alphabet to ensure that it would be pronounced as one word rather than as two, [31] while the global organization ICAO keeps the spelling X-ray. The alphabet is defined by various international conventions on radio, including:
Lester Frank Ward wrote the early paper: "Eugenics, Euthenics and Eudemics", making yet further distinctions. [15] Having presented papers at eugenics conferences alongside fellow Nobel prize winners in Physiology or Medicine, Hermann J. Muller and Francis Crick, as late as 1963 [16] and equally concerned over the civilizational prospect of dysgenics, [17] Jewish geneticist Joshua Lederberg ...
Gamma-ray sensors are also used for measuring the fluid levels in water and oil industries. [17] Typically, these use Co-60 or Cs-137 isotopes as the radiation source. In the US, gamma ray detectors are beginning to be used as part of the Container Security Initiative (CSI). These machines are advertised to be able to scan 30 containers per hour.
Usury (/ ˈ j uː ʒ ər i /) [1] [2] is the practice of making loans that are seen as unfairly enriching the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others' misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an interest rate is charged in excess of the maximum rate that is allowed by law.
United States: The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 (Pub. L. Tooltip Public Law (United States) 108–105 (text), 117 Stat. 1201, enacted November 5, 2003, 18 U.S.C. § 1531, [38] "PBA Ban") is a United States law prohibiting a form of late-term abortion that the Act calls "partial-birth abortion", referred to in medical literature as ...
Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, Office Manager Office Manager included. Last version for Windows NT 3.5. August 24, 1995 Office 95 (7.0) Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Schedule+, Binder, Access, Bookshelf The first Office version to have the same version number (7.0, inherited from Word 6.0) for all major component products (Word, Excel and so on).
[209] [210] It pledged a new publicly owned energy company (Great British Energy) and National Wealth Fund, a ''Green Prosperity Plan", rebuilding the NHS and reducing patient waiting times, free breakfast clubs in primary schools, investing in green infrastructure, innovation, training and skills across the UK to boost economic growth, and ...