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  2. Standard Marine Communication Phrases - Wikipedia

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    The Standard Marine Communication Phrases ( SMCP) is a set of key phrases in the English language (which is the internationally recognised language of the sea), supported by the international community for use at sea and developed by the International Maritime Organization (IMO). They aim to explain: 1) external communication phrases – ship ...

  3. FOB (shipping) - Wikipedia

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    FOB ( free on board) is a term in international commercial law specifying at what point respective obligations, costs, and risk involved in the delivery of goods shift from the seller to the buyer under the Incoterms standard published by the International Chamber of Commerce. FOB is only used in non-containerized sea freight or inland waterway ...

  4. Shipping Forecast - Wikipedia

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    Robert FitzRoy. Original release. 24 August 1867 (by telegraph) The Shipping Forecast is a BBC Radio broadcast of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the British Isles. It is produced by the Met Office and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The forecast dates back over 150 years.

  5. Amazon raises free shipping minimum for some non-Prime ... - AOL

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    To qualify for free shipping, non-Prime members typically have to purchase an order totaling at least $25. On Monday, the e-commerce giant said it has raised that minimum to $35.

  6. Goodhart's law - Wikipedia

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    For example, if an employee is rewarded by the number of cars sold each month, they will try to sell more cars, even at a loss. While it originated in the context of market responses, the law has profound implications for the selection of high-level targets in organizations. [3] Jon Danielsson states the law as

  7. List of CB slang - Wikipedia

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    A truck stop restaurant, especially one known for its less-than-quality food. Comedian The median or central reservation of a highway. As in, "A bear taking pictures from the comedian." Copy that/Copy Acknowledgement "I heard you" or "I understand." Cotton Choppers Other people as a group who are referred to as being bothersome or annoying.

  8. No such thing as a free lunch - Wikipedia

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    TANSTAAFL: a plan for a new economic world order. (Pierre Dos Utt, 1949) The earliest known occurrence of the full phrase (except for the "a"), in the form "There ain't no such thing as free lunch", appears as the punchline of a joke related in an article in the El Paso Herald-Post of June 27, 1938 (and other Scripps-Howard newspapers about the same time), entitled "Economics in Eight Words".

  9. Free shipping - Wikipedia

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    Internet vendors benefit from a simplified sales model as compared to traditional brick-and-mortar stores. By storing goods remotely at a warehouse location and shipping goods directly to a consumer, significant transportation needs are eliminated both on the part of the vendor (shipping goods to stores) and by the consumer (traveling to stores).