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AFL-CIO: The umbrella organization for many labor unions in the United States, with AFL standing for American Federation of Labor, and CIO the abbreviation of Congress of Industrial Organizations. The AFL-CIO began as just the AFL in 1886 as a collection of craft unions representing skilled workers. It expanded to include semiskilled and unskilled workers represented by industrial unions. Differing interests among the two groups lead to a division of the original AFL in 1938 into two separate groups -- the AFL containing craft unions and CIO containing industrial unions. This rift was closed in 1955, when the AFL and CIO merged to form the AFL-CIO.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for rummage sales seeking to buy either clothing for your pet dog or an ink cartridge for your printer. Be on the lookout for malfunctioning pocket calculators. Your Complete Scope
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Two and a half gallons of oil are needed to produce one automobile tire.
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"For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom." -- Cao Yu, Playwright
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NLREG Nonlinear Statistical Regression
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