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  2. Unprecedented numbers of gray whales are visiting San ... - AOL

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    After the mass strandings had subsided and the population once again began to grow, they weren't seen again — save one or two a year — until 2019, when another massive mortality event occurred.

  3. Pump and dump - Wikipedia

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    A pump-and-dump scam is a type of economic bubble, with the main difference between this scheme and most other types of bubbles being that the pump-and-dump bubble is deliberately perpetrated by unlawful activity. A pump-and-dump scheme is similar in many ways to a Ponzi scheme (in that both types of scam use misrepresentations in an effort to ...

  4. Madison ice underwear TikTok goes viral, wins free ice cream ...

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    The Sal & Mookie's New York Pizza & Ice Cream Joint in Madison will sponsor a free ice cream day on July 21 courtesy of underwear company, Shinesty. Tom Beck/Special to Clarion Ledger. As it turns ...

  5. Scam - Wikipedia

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    Scam. A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have defined confidence tricks as "a distinctive species of ...

  6. Pork barrel scam - Wikipedia

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    The Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, also called the PDAF scam or the pork barrel scam, is a political scandal involving the alleged misuse by several members of the Congress of the Philippines of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF, popularly called "pork barrel"), a lump-sum discretionary fund granted to each member of Congress for spending on priority development ...

  7. Oil-for-Food Programme - Wikipedia

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    The Oil-for-Food Programme ( OIP) was established by the United Nations in 1995 (under UN Security Council Resolution 986) [ 1] to allow Iraq to sell oil on the world market in exchange for food, medicine, and other humanitarian needs for ordinary Iraqi citizens without allowing Iraq to boost its military capabilities.

  8. Credit card - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A credit card is a payment card, usually issued by a bank, allowing its users to purchase goods or services or withdraw cash on credit. Using the card thus accrues debt that has to be repaid later. [ 1] Credit cards are one of the most widely used forms of payment across the world. [ 2]

  9. Private school - Wikipedia

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    Catholic schools make up a sizeable proportion of total enrolment (nearly 15%) and are usually regarded as a school sector of their own within the broad category of private schools, often charging lower fees than Protestant private schools. Enrolment in non-government schools have been growing steadily at the expense of enrolments in government ...