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  2. NATO phonetic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Soon after the code words were developed by ICAO (see history below), they were adopted by other national and international organizations, including the ITU, the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United States Federal Government as Federal Standard 1037C: Glossary of Telecommunications Terms [5] and its successors ANSI T1.523-2001 [6] and ATIS Telecom Glossary (ATIS-0100523.2019 ...

  3. ZIP Code - Wikipedia

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    A ZIP Code (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan [1]) is a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently and quickly [2] (zipping along) when senders use the code in the postal address.

  4. List of dialling codes in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Likely reason for non-allocation of 01999 is similarity to the 999 emergency services access code. 01426, 01523 and other non-standard 01 prefixes were briefly used for pagers [ 8 ] in the late 1990s and then moved to new 076 prefixes in the Big Number Change in 2000/2001.

  5. Alaska Permanent Fund - Wikipedia

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    A 2019 study found "a 14% increase in substance-abuse incidents the day after the [Alaska Permanent Fund] payment and a 10% increase over the following four weeks. This is partially offset by a 8% decrease in property crime, with no changes in violent crimes. On an annual basis, however, changes in criminal activity from the payment are small.

  6. ASCII - Wikipedia

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    ASCII (/ ˈ æ s k iː / ⓘ ASS-kee), [3]: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. . ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devic

  7. Water supply and sanitation in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Consequently, domestic users in Tijuana monthly pay US$1.1 for 30m3, whereas customers in Villahermosa only pay US$0.05 for the same amount. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] On average only 72% of all bills are being paid. 31% of water customers are not metered and are charged a flat rate independent of consumption.

  8. Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor - Wikipedia

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    On 9 June 2017, the USAF submitted their report to Congress stating they had no plans to restart the F-22 production line due to cost-prohibitive economic and logistical challenges; it estimated it would cost approximately $50 billion to procure 194 additional F-22s at a cost of $206–216 million per aircraft, including approximately $9.9 ...

  9. Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund - Wikipedia

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    The payments were routinized during the Second Intifada (2000–2005). [6] In 2016, payments were made to 35,000 families, including the families of suicide bombers, from a 2016 annual budget of $170 million. [7] [6] The stipend is higher than the average Palestinian wage. [6] [8]