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  • 52Irrigation in viticulture — A vineyard with a drip irrigation system running along the bottom of the vines The role of irrigation in viticulture is considered both controversial and essential to wine production. In the physiology of the grapevine, water is a vital component …

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  • 53pernicious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. malign, ruinous, poisonous, detrimental, injurious, harmful; wicked. See badness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. harmful, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, baneful, damaging, prejudicial, ruinous,… …

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  • 54both — 1. general. Both, when modifying a single item, refers to two things or persons (both houses / both women); when, as both…and…, it couples two items, each of these may be singular (both the woman and the man) or plural (both the women and the… …

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  • 55pernicious — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin perniciosus, from pernicies destruction, from per + nec , nex violent death more at noxious Date: 15th century 1. highly injurious or destructive ; deadly 2. archaic wicked •… …

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  • 56Søren Kierkegaard — Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Sketch of Søren Kierkegaard by Niels Christian Kierkegaard, c. 1840 Full name Søren Aabye Kierkegaard Born 5 May 1813 Copenhagen, Denmark Died 11 November 1855 …

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  • 57Vestigiality — The human vermiform appendix is a vestigial structure; it no longer retains its original function. Vestigiality describes homologous characters of organisms that have seemingly lost all or most of their original function in a species through… …

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  • 58Dorje Shugden controversy — Further information: Dorje Shugden Part of a series on Tibetan Buddhism …

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  • 59Child Labour Programme of Action (South Africa) — The Child Labour Programme of Action (or CLPA) is the national plan on elimination of child labour in South Africa. It was provisionally adopted by a large group of key stakeholders in September 2003. These stakeholders include key government… …

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  • 60Historical ecology — is a research program that focuses on the intermingling of people and the environments in which they live. Rather than just looking at a quick snapshot, historical ecology involves studying and understanding this relationship in both time and… …

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