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  2. Medicare (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Medicare amendment (July 30, 1965). Former President Harry S. Truman (seated) and his wife, Bess, are on the far right.. Originally, the name "Medicare" in the United States referred to a program providing medical care for families of people serving in the military as part of the Dependents' Medical Care Act, which was passed in 1956. [5]

  3. New York City Department of Sanitation - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] [8] George E. Waring. In 1894, Col. George E. Waring, Jr. became commissioner, and he was credited with substantially cleaning the streets, as well as pioneering recycling, street sweeping, and the establishment of a uniformed cleaning and collection force. [9] The department's name was changed to the Department of Sanitation in 1929. [10]

  4. Timeline for the day of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    Flight paths of the four planes used on September 11. 7:59 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with registration number N334AA, carrying 76 passengers (excluding the hijackers) and 11 crew members, departs 14 minutes late from Logan International Airport in Boston, bound for Los Angeles International Airport.

  5. United States federal executive departments - Wikipedia

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    The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States.They are analogous to ministries common in parliamentary or semi-presidential systems but (the United States being a presidential system) they are led by a head of government who is also the head of state.

  6. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    1/52! chance of a specific shuffle Mathematics: The chances of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in any specific order is around 1.24 × 10 −68 (or exactly 1 ⁄ 52!) [4] Computing: The number 1.4 × 10 −45 is approximately equal to the smallest positive non-zero value that can be represented by a single-precision IEEE floating-point value.

  7. United States Department of Energy - Wikipedia

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    The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and energy production, the research and development of nuclear power, the military's nuclear weapons program, nuclear reactor production for the United States Navy, energy-related research, and energy conservation.

  8. Hollywood Police Department (Florida) - Wikipedia

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    Commella had mistaken Bajra for someone else. No charges were brought against either man. In November 2013, the department paid Bajra $195,000. Commella had by then moved on to be a deputy of the Broward County Sheriff. [10] [11] In 2012, the department began to use computer software to call numbers on commercial signs left on roadsides in the ...

  9. Nonfarm payrolls - Wikipedia

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    Nonfarm payroll employment is a compiled name for goods, construction and manufacturing companies in the US. Approximately 80% of the workforce is accounted for nonfarm payrolls [1] and it excludes farm workers, private household employees, actively serving military or non-profit organization employees.