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Q499	how many rounds in boxing	Boxing	Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of one- to three-minute intervals called rounds.	00
Q499	how many rounds in boxing	Boxing	The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges' scorecards at the end of the contest.	00
Q499	how many rounds in boxing	Boxing	The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC.	00
Q499	how many rounds in boxing	Boxing	Boxing evolved from 16th- and 18th-century prizefights, largely in Great Britain, to the forerunner of modern boxing in the mid-19th century, again initially in Great Britain and later in the United States.	00
Q499	how many rounds in boxing	Boxing	In 2004, ESPN ranked boxing as the most difficult sport in the world.	00
Q501	how does agreement show grammatical relation	Agreement (linguistics)	Agreement or concord happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.	00
Q501	how does agreement show grammatical relation	Agreement (linguistics)	It is an instance of inflection , and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person ) "agree" between different words or parts of the sentence.	00
Q501	how does agreement show grammatical relation	Agreement (linguistics)	For example, in Standard English , one may say I am or he is, but not "I is" or "he am".	00
Q501	how does agreement show grammatical relation	Agreement (linguistics)	This is because the grammar of the language requires that the verb and its subject agree in person.	00
Q501	how does agreement show grammatical relation	Agreement (linguistics)	The pronouns I and he are first and third person respectively, as are the verb forms am and is.	00
Q501	how does agreement show grammatical relation	Agreement (linguistics)	The verb form must be selected so that it has the same person as the subject.	00
Q501	how does agreement show grammatical relation	Agreement (linguistics)	The agreement based on overt grammatical categories as above is formal agreement, in contrast to notional agreement , which is based on meaning.	00
Q501	how does agreement show grammatical relation	Agreement (linguistics)	For instance, the phrase The United States is treated as singular for purposes of agreement, even though it is formally plural .	00
Q502	how much of california is below sea level	List of places on land with elevations below sea level	This is a list of places below mean sea level that are on land.	00
Q502	how much of california is below sea level	List of places on land with elevations below sea level	Places in tunnels, mines, basements, dug holes (also with open sky), under water, under ice, or existing temporarily as a result of ebbing of sea tide etc. are not included.	00
Q502	how much of california is below sea level	List of places on land with elevations below sea level	All figures are in meters below sea level:	00
Q503	what kind of books does debbie macomber writes	Debbie Macomber	Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948 in Yakima, Washington ) is a best-selling American author of over 150 romance novels and contemporary women's fiction.	11
Q503	what kind of books does debbie macomber writes	Debbie Macomber	Over 140 million copies of her books are in print throughout the world, and four have become made-for-TV-movies.	00
Q503	what kind of books does debbie macomber writes	Debbie Macomber	Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded both a Romance Writers of America RITA and a lifetime achievement award by the Romance Writers of America.	00
Q504	what county is catonsville md in	Catonsville, Maryland	Catonsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County , Maryland , United States.	11
Q504	what county is catonsville md in	Catonsville, Maryland	The population was 41,567 at the 2010 census .	00
Q504	what county is catonsville md in	Catonsville, Maryland	The community lies to the west of Baltimore along the city's border.	00
Q504	what county is catonsville md in	Catonsville, Maryland	Catonsville is the home of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), a public research university with over 12,000 students.	00
Q505	how was a lawyer called in latin	Lawyer	A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary , is "a person learned in the law ; as an attorney , counsel or solicitor ; a person who is practicing law ."	00
Q505	how was a lawyer called in latin	Lawyer	Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political and social authority, and deliver justice .	00
Q505	how was a lawyer called in latin	Lawyer	Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who retain (i.e., hire) lawyers to perform legal services.	00
Q505	how was a lawyer called in latin	Lawyer	The role of the lawyer varies significantly across legal jurisdictions, and so it can be treated here in only the most general terms.	00
Q507	how much does vector marketing salary a week	Vector Marketing	Vector Marketing is the domestic sales arm of Cutco Corporation , an Olean , New York based cutlery manufacturer.	00
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States federal law requiring covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons.	11
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	Qualified medical and family reasons include: personal or family illness, family military leave, pregnancy , adoption , or the foster care placement of a child.	11
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	The FMLA is administered by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor .	00
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	The bill was a major part of President Bill Clinton's agenda in his first term.	00
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	President Clinton signed the bill into law on February 5, 1993 (; 29 U.S.C. sec. 2601; 29 CFR 825) and it took effect on August 5, 1993, six months later.	00
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	The FMLA was intended "to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families."	00
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	The Act allows eligible employees to take up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period to attend to the serious health condition of the employee, parent, spouse or child, or for pregnancy or care of a newborn child, or for adoption or foster care of a child.	00
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	In order to be eligible for FMLA leave, an employee must have been at the business at least 12 months, and worked at least 1,250 hours over the past 12 months, and work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles.	00
Q512	what does the family leave act	Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993	The FMLA covers both public- and private-sector employees, but certain categories of employees are excluded, including elected officials and their personal staff members.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	The Vietnam War () was a Cold War -era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam , Laos , and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam , supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam , supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist common front directed by the North, largely fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	The Vietnam People's Army (North Vietnamese Army) engaged in a more conventional war , at times committing large units into battle.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces , artillery , and airstrikes .	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment .	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	The North Vietnamese government and Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	They viewed the conflict as a colonial war , fought initially against France, backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state .	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina beginning in 1950.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	Operations spanned international borders, with Laos and Cambodia heavily bombed.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	American involvement in the war peaked in 1968, at the time of the Tet Offensive .	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	After this, U.S. ground forces were gradually withdrawn as part of a policy known as Vietnamization .	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	Despite the Paris Peace Accords , signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973 as a result of the Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	The capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.	11
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (see Vietnam War casualties ).	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 800,000 to 3.1 million.	00
Q513	how did the vietnam war end	Vietnam War	Some 200,000–300,000 Cambodians , 20,000–200,000 Laotians , and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska photographed from the International Space Station , May 2006.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Ash plumes reached a height of 19 km during the climactic eruption at Mount Pinatubo , Philippines in 1991.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	A volcano is an opening, or rupture , in a planet's surface or crust , which allows hot magma , volcanic ash and gases to escape from the magma chamber below the surface.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Volcanoes are generally found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging .	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	A mid-oceanic ridge , for example the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , has examples of volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates pulling apart; the Pacific Ring of Fire has examples of volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates coming together.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	By contrast, volcanoes are usually not created where two tectonic plates slide past one another.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Volcanoes can also form where there is stretching and thinning of the Earth's crust in the interiors of plates, e.g., in the East African Rift , the Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field and the Rio Grande Rift in North America.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	This type of volcanism falls under the umbrella of "Plate hypothesis" volcanism.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Volcanism away from plate boundaries has also been explained as mantle plumes .	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	These so-called " hotspots ", for example Hawaii, are postulated to arise from upwelling diapirs with magma from the core–mantle boundary , 3,000 km deep in the Earth.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Erupting volcanoes can pose many hazards, not only in the immediate vicinity of the eruption.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Volcanic ash can be a threat to aircraft, in particular those with jet engines where ash particles can be melted by the high operating temperature.	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Large eruptions can affect temperature as ash and droplets of sulfuric acid obscure the sun and cool the Earth's lower atmosphere or troposphere ; however, they also absorb heat radiated up from the Earth, thereby warming the stratosphere .	00
Q514	how do you know if a volcano is extinct	Volcano	Historically, so-called volcanic winters have caused catastrophic famines .	00
Q515	How is the pothole formed	Pothole	A deep pothole on New York City's Second Avenue	00
Q515	How is the pothole formed	Pothole	A pothole (sometimes called a kettle and known in parts of the Western United States as a chuckhole) is a type of disruption in the surface of a roadway where a portion of the road material has broken away, leaving a hole.	11
Q516	how much more time does chemo give to people with renal cancer	Renal cell carcinoma	Renal cell carcinoma (RCC, also known as hypernephroma) is a kidney cancer that originates in the lining of the proximal convoluted tubule , the very small tubes in the kidney that transport GF (glomerular filtrate) from the glomerulus to the descending limb of the nephron.	00
Q516	how much more time does chemo give to people with renal cancer	Renal cell carcinoma	RCC is the most common type of kidney cancer in adults, responsible for approximately 80% of cases.	00
Q516	how much more time does chemo give to people with renal cancer	Renal cell carcinoma	It is also known to be the most lethal of all the genitourinary tumors.	00
Q516	how much more time does chemo give to people with renal cancer	Renal cell carcinoma	Initial treatment is most commonly a radical or partial nephrectomy and remains the mainstay of curative treatment.	00
Q516	how much more time does chemo give to people with renal cancer	Renal cell carcinoma	Where the tumor is confined to the renal parenchyma, the 5-year survival rate is 60-70%, but this is lowered considerably where metastases have spread.	11
Q516	how much more time does chemo give to people with renal cancer	Renal cell carcinoma	It is relatively resistant to radiation therapy and chemotherapy , although some cases respond to immunotherapy .	00
Q516	how much more time does chemo give to people with renal cancer	Renal cell carcinoma	Targeted cancer therapies such as sunitinib , temsirolimus , bevacizumab , interferon-alpha, and sorafenib have improved the outlook for RCC.	00
Q517	what does estee lauder do	EstÃ©e Lauder Companies	Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products.	11
Q517	what does estee lauder do	EstÃ©e Lauder Companies	The company has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan , New York City.	00
Q518	what does peritoneal cavity hold	Peritoneum	The peritoneum () is the serous membrane that forms the lining of the abdominal cavity or the coelom —it covers most of the intra-abdominal (or coelomic) organs—in amniotes and some invertebrates ( annelids , for instance).	00
Q518	what does peritoneal cavity hold	Peritoneum	It is composed of a layer of mesothelium supported by a thin layer of connective tissue .	00
Q518	what does peritoneal cavity hold	Peritoneum	The peritoneum both supports the abdominal organs and serves as a conduit for their blood and lymph vessels and nerves .	00
Q518	what does peritoneal cavity hold	Peritoneum	The abdominal cavity (the space bounded by the vertebrae , abdominal muscles , diaphragm and pelvic floor ) should not be confused with the intraperitoneal space (located within the abdominal cavity, but wrapped in peritoneum).	00
Q518	what does peritoneal cavity hold	Peritoneum	The structures within the intraperitoneal space are called "intraperitoneal" (e.g. the stomach ), the structures in the abdominal cavity that are located behind the intraperitoneal space are called " retroperitoneal " (e.g. the kidneys ), and those structures below the intraperitoneal space are called "subperitoneal" or "infraperitoneal" (e.g. the bladder ).	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	Modern 2.5" SSD used in consumer laptops and desktop computers .	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	DDR SDRAM based SSD.	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	Max and .	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	PCI attached IO Accelerator SSD	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	PCI-E, DRAM, and NAND based SSD.	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	It uses an external power supply to make the DRAM non-volatile.	11
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	A solid-state drive (SSD) (also known as a solid-state disk or electronic disk, though it contains no actual "disk" of any kind) is a data storage device using integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently .	11
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	SSD technology uses electronic interfaces compatible with traditional block input/output (I/O) hard disk drives .	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	SSDs have no moving mechanical components, which distinguish them from traditional electromechanical magnetic disks such as hard disk drives (HDDs) or floppy disks , which contain spinning disks and movable read/write heads .	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	Compared with electromechanical disks, SSDs are typically less susceptible to physical shock, much quieter, have lower access time , and less latency .	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	However, while the price of SSDs has continued to decline in 2012, SSDs are still about 7 to 8 times more expensive per unit of storage than HDDs.	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	Many SSDs use I/O interfaces developed for hard disk drives, thus permitting simple replacement in common applications.	00
Q521	how does a solid state drive work	Solid-state drive	, most SSDs use NAND-based flash memory , which retains data without power .	00

Q499

how many rounds in boxing

Boxing

Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of one- to three-minute intervals called rounds.

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Q499

how many rounds in boxing

Boxing

The result is decided when an opponent is deemed incapable to continue by a referee, is disqualified for breaking a rule, resigns by throwing in a towel, or is pronounced the winner or loser based on the judges' scorecards at the end of the contest.

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Q499

how many rounds in boxing

Boxing

The birth hour of boxing as a sport may be its acceptance by the ancient Greeks as an Olympic game as early as 688 BC.

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Q499

how many rounds in boxing

Boxing

Boxing evolved from 16th- and 18th-century prizefights, largely in Great Britain, to the forerunner of modern boxing in the mid-19th century, again initially in Great Britain and later in the United States.

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Q499

how many rounds in boxing

Boxing

In 2004, ESPN ranked boxing as the most difficult sport in the world.

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Q501

how does agreement show grammatical relation

Agreement (linguistics)

Agreement or concord happens when a word changes form depending on the other words to which it relates.

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Q501

how does agreement show grammatical relation

Agreement (linguistics)

It is an instance of inflection , and usually involves making the value of some grammatical category (such as gender or person ) "agree" between different words or parts of the sentence.

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Q501

how does agreement show grammatical relation

Agreement (linguistics)

For example, in Standard English , one may say I am or he is, but not "I is" or "he am".

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Q501

how does agreement show grammatical relation

Agreement (linguistics)

This is because the grammar of the language requires that the verb and its subject agree in person.

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Q501

how does agreement show grammatical relation

Agreement (linguistics)

The pronouns I and he are first and third person respectively, as are the verb forms am and is.

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Q501

how does agreement show grammatical relation

Agreement (linguistics)

The verb form must be selected so that it has the same person as the subject.

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Q501

how does agreement show grammatical relation

Agreement (linguistics)

The agreement based on overt grammatical categories as above is formal agreement, in contrast to notional agreement , which is based on meaning.

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how does agreement show grammatical relation

Agreement (linguistics)

For instance, the phrase The United States is treated as singular for purposes of agreement, even though it is formally plural .

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Q502

how much of california is below sea level

List of places on land with elevations below sea level

This is a list of places below mean sea level that are on land.

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Q502

how much of california is below sea level

List of places on land with elevations below sea level

Places in tunnels, mines, basements, dug holes (also with open sky), under water, under ice, or existing temporarily as a result of ebbing of sea tide etc. are not included.

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Q502

how much of california is below sea level

List of places on land with elevations below sea level

All figures are in meters below sea level:

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Q503

what kind of books does debbie macomber writes

Debbie Macomber

Debbie Macomber (born October 22, 1948 in Yakima, Washington ) is a best-selling American author of over 150 romance novels and contemporary women's fiction.

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Q503

what kind of books does debbie macomber writes

Debbie Macomber

Over 140 million copies of her books are in print throughout the world, and four have become made-for-TV-movies.

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what kind of books does debbie macomber writes

Debbie Macomber

Macomber was the inaugural winner of the fan-voted Quill Award for romance in 2005 and has been awarded both a Romance Writers of America RITA and a lifetime achievement award by the Romance Writers of America.

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Q504

what county is catonsville md in

Catonsville, Maryland

Catonsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County , Maryland , United States.

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Q504

what county is catonsville md in

Catonsville, Maryland

The population was 41,567 at the 2010 census .

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Q504

what county is catonsville md in

Catonsville, Maryland

The community lies to the west of Baltimore along the city's border.

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Q504

what county is catonsville md in

Catonsville, Maryland

Catonsville is the home of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), a public research university with over 12,000 students.

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Q505

how was a lawyer called in latin

Lawyer

A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary , is "a person learned in the law ; as an attorney , counsel or solicitor ; a person who is practicing law ."

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Q505

how was a lawyer called in latin

Lawyer

Law is the system of rules of conduct established by the sovereign government of a society to correct wrongs, maintain the stability of political and social authority, and deliver justice .

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Q505

how was a lawyer called in latin

Lawyer

Working as a lawyer involves the practical application of abstract legal theories and knowledge to solve specific individualized problems, or to advance the interests of those who retain (i.e., hire) lawyers to perform legal services.

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Q505

how was a lawyer called in latin

Lawyer

The role of the lawyer varies significantly across legal jurisdictions, and so it can be treated here in only the most general terms.

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Q507

how much does vector marketing salary a week

Vector Marketing

Vector Marketing is the domestic sales arm of Cutco Corporation , an Olean , New York based cutlery manufacturer.

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States federal law requiring covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons.

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

Qualified medical and family reasons include: personal or family illness, family military leave, pregnancy , adoption , or the foster care placement of a child.

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

The FMLA is administered by the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor .

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

The bill was a major part of President Bill Clinton's agenda in his first term.

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

President Clinton signed the bill into law on February 5, 1993 (; 29 U.S.C. sec. 2601; 29 CFR 825) and it took effect on August 5, 1993, six months later.

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

The FMLA was intended "to balance the demands of the workplace with the needs of families."

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

The Act allows eligible employees to take up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period to attend to the serious health condition of the employee, parent, spouse or child, or for pregnancy or care of a newborn child, or for adoption or foster care of a child.

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

In order to be eligible for FMLA leave, an employee must have been at the business at least 12 months, and worked at least 1,250 hours over the past 12 months, and work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles.

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Q512

what does the family leave act

Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993

The FMLA covers both public- and private-sector employees, but certain categories of employees are excluded, including elected officials and their personal staff members.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War () was a Cold War -era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam , Laos , and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam , supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam , supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist common front directed by the North, largely fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

The Vietnam People's Army (North Vietnamese Army) engaged in a more conventional war , at times committing large units into battle.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces , artillery , and airstrikes .

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containment .

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

The North Vietnamese government and Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam under communist rule.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

They viewed the conflict as a colonial war , fought initially against France, backed by the U.S., and later against South Vietnam, which it regarded as a U.S. puppet state .

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina beginning in 1950.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and tripling again in 1962.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

U.S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

Operations spanned international borders, with Laos and Cambodia heavily bombed.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

American involvement in the war peaked in 1968, at the time of the Tet Offensive .

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

After this, U.S. ground forces were gradually withdrawn as part of a policy known as Vietnamization .

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

Despite the Paris Peace Accords , signed by all parties in January 1973, fighting continued.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973 as a result of the Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

The capture of Saigon by the Vietnam People's Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities (see Vietnam War casualties ).

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 800,000 to 3.1 million.

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Q513

how did the vietnam war end

Vietnam War

Some 200,000–300,000 Cambodians , 20,000–200,000 Laotians , and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict.

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