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  2. Sexual harassment in education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a survey of 148 high school graduates in North Carolina in 1989 the graduates were given a definition of sexual harassment and asked if they had experienced sexual harassment during their high school years. 43% reported inappropriate comments, looks, or gestures by a teacher, 17.5% reported sexual touching, and 13.5% indicated ...

  3. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act ( IDEA) is a piece of American legislation that ensures students with a disability are provided with a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) that is tailored to their individual needs. IDEA was previously known as the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) from 1975 to 1990.

  4. Baháʼí Faith in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This guidance took the form of a series of letters, or tablets, to the followers of the religion in the United States in 1916-1917; these letters were compiled together in the book Tablets of the Divine Plan. They were translated and presented on April 4, 1919 in New York City, and published in Star of the West on December 12, 1919. [6]

  5. Effective interest rate - Wikipedia

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    The effective interest rate ( EIR ), effective annual interest rate, annual equivalent rate ( AER) or simply effective rate is the percentage of interest on a loan or financial product if compound interest accumulates in periods different than a year. [1] It is the compound interest payable annually in arrears, based on the nominal interest rate.

  6. Compound interest - Wikipedia

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    5%. 4%. 3%. 2%. 1%. The interest on corporate bonds and government bonds is usually payable twice yearly. The amount of interest paid every six months is the disclosed interest rate divided by two and multiplied by the principal. The yearly compounded rate is higher than the disclosed rate.

  7. 2013 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts

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    The vacancy that prompted the special election was created by the resignation of Senator John Kerry, in order to become U.S. Secretary of State. [1] On January 30, 2013, Governor Deval Patrick chose his former chief of staff, Mo Cowan , to serve as interim U.S. Senator.

  8. Risk-free rate - Wikipedia

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    The risk-free interest rate is highly significant in the context of the general application of capital asset pricing model which is based on the modern portfolio theory. There are numerous issues with this model, the most basic of which is the reduction of the description of utility of stock holding to the expected mean and variance of the ...

  9. Stock market has worst day since 2022 as Tesla, Google ... - AOL

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    July 24, 2024 at 5:20 PM. Spencer Platt. U.S. stocks had their worst day since 2022 on Wednesday amid a broad pullback in tech companies as Wall Street traders sought to reduce their exposure to ...