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Forever (Mariah Carey song) "Forever" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff for Carey's fourth studio album, Daydream. The protagonist of this 1950s-inspired romantic ballad knows that her relationship is over, but that the boy will be hers forever in her mind.
Forever 21 Forever 21 is a chain of clothing retailers throughout the United States, offering inexpensive, trendy fashions and accessories for women, men and junior girls. The store's trademark yellow shopping bags have the words John 3:16 printed on the bottom, a reflection of the owners' Christian faith.
Forever 27 Forever 27 refers to the artists (Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain) who died in the years of 1969, 1970, 1971, and 1994 at the age of 27. A Salvador DalĂ­-inspired painting was created by Scott Lobaido depicting them (except Brian Jones) up in heaven together.
Forever Eden Forever Eden is a FOX Network reality show that shared many similaries with FOX's 2003 summer television show Paradise Hotel, including the show's producers. Unlike Paradise Hotel, the contestants could live in a resort not for weeks or months, but for years.
Forever Everlasting Forever Everlasting (1990) was Everlast's first solo album. The biggest hits on this album were "The Rhythm" which featured Ice-T, and "I Got The Knack" featuring DJ Lethal with whom he'd later form House of Pain.
Forever Free (tribute album) Forever Free: Sublime Tribute is the second tribute album dedicated to Sublime lead singer Brad Nowell after 2005's Look at All the Love We Found, performed by various artists and released on January 24, 2006. All songs, besides the final track, are tribute covers of classic Sublime recordings.
Forever Hardcore Forever Hardcore is a professional wrestling documentary that interviews wrestlers who participated in Hardcore Homecoming on June 10, 2005. It was produced by Big Vision Entertainment and TNA booker Jeremy Borash and can be seen as a counterpoint to the WWE documentary The Rise and Fall of ECW, and has generally received positive reviews among the Internet Wrestling Community.
Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood is the fourth novel in Ann Brashares's "Sisterhood" series, stated to be her last. It chronicles the summer after their first year of college and university; the preview shown on the official site shows the pants have been sent around during the school year (unlike previous years) and that the official starting ceremony does not occur, due to Carmen's absence.
Forever Interactive ""Forever Interactive"" is an independent video game developer based in Chicago. The company is a recent start up aimed at developing the Chicagoland game industry and diversifying away from Midway Games and EA Games, both of which have a very strong presence in Chicago.
Forever Living Products Forever Living Products (aka FLP), is a Scottsdale, Arizona based Multi-level marketing distribution company, who claim to be the world's largest grower, manufacturer and distributor of Aloe Vera-based products.
Forever Malcolm Young Forever Malcolm Young is the title of the 2006 album from Australian punk band Frenzal Rhomb. It was released on October 14th in Australia and there is no news on an international release, yet it is likely that Fat Wreck Chords will release it sometime in the future.
Forever My Lady Forever My Lady is the debut album by R&B group Jodeci. MCA and Uptown Records issued and released the album on May 28, 1991, at the very end of the New Jack Swing, an R&B fad of the late '80's and early '90's.
Forever Not Yours The first single from the album "Lifelines" was sent to radio stations in parts of Europe on 22nd February 2002 (15th April in Belgium) and was released commercially on 2nd April. The cover of the commercial release features a closeup shot of the black front end of a 50's Cadillac standing on flatland.
Forever Red Forever Red is an episode of the television series Power Rangers: Wild Force, commemorating the first ten years of Power Rangers. While airing a year short of the actual tenth anniversary of the show, Wild Force is the tenth series in the Power Rangers franchise.
Forever Since Breakfast Forever Since Breakfast is the debut Guided by Voices record, released on vinyl in 1986. In contrast to the lo-fi sound they would cultivate in the coming years, this EP was recorded in a professional studio, and features a nearly slick sound that anticipates their late 90's major-label efforts.
Forever Young (Alphaville song) Forever Young was the title track from West German rock/synthpop group Alphaville's 1984 debut album. Though it was not Alphaville's highest-charting European hit ("Big In Japan" was), and despite its failure to even once crack the American Top 40 in three separate U.
Forever Young (Care Bears song) Forever Young is a song from 1986, written by Dean and Carol Parks, and performed by the latter. It is heard in the final six minutes of the 1986 animated film The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, whose soundtrack it was written for.
Forever Young: Cory Quirino's Guide to Beauty & Fitness Forever Young: Cory Quirino's Guide to Beauty & Fitness (ISBN 971-27-0528-5) is a book written by Filipina health and beauty expert Cory Quirino. It is the first of her Forever Young series of books about health, fitness and nutrition.
Forever Young: Cory Quirino's Guide to Beauty and Wellness Forever Young: Cory Quirino's Guide to Beauty and Wellness (ISBN 971-27-1187-0) is a book written by Filipina health and beauty expert Cory Quirino. It is an updated and expanded version of her previous book Forever Young: Cory Quirino's Guide to Beauty & Fitness.
Forever, Michael Forever, Michael was the fourth album in American pop and R&B singer Michael Jackson's solo career and was Jackson's final contractural studio album as a soloist in Motown Records. Released in January 1975, Jackson was now sixteen years old and in full tenor at this point in his career.
Forever: The Singles Forever: The Singles is a greatest hits album featuring selected singles released by the British band The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK) spanning their entire career from 1990 to 2006. The album was released on November 13, 2006.
Foreword A foreword is a short piece of writing often found at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature, before the introduction, and written by someone other than the author of the book. A preface, by contrast, is written by the author of the book, although sometimes the two terms are used interchangeably.
ForeWord (magazine) ForeWord is a trade journal published six times yearly with the tagline, “Reviews of Good Books Independently Published.” The magazine is distributed primarily to librarians and booksellers to familiarize them with upcoming books from small, independent and university presses, as well as self-published books, which often don’t receive the media attention that books published by large houses do.
Forex scam A forex scam is any trading scheme used to defraud individual traders by convincing them that they can expect to profit by trading in the foreign exchange market. One such example of someone who has come under such scrutiny is James Dicks.
Forex simulator A forex (foreign exchange market) simulator is a software program that enables foreign currency exchange traders and students to expedite their learning and understanding of currency exchange. Unlike a live forex demo account that functions in real time, a forex simulator enables users to upload, view and review historical data at any given point in time.
Forfaiting Forfaiting, or Medium-Term Capital Goods Financing, means selling a bill of exchange, at a discount, to a third party, the forfaiter, who collects the payment from an, essentially, overseas customer, through a collateral bank(s), and, thus, assuming the underlying responsibility of exporters and simultaneously providing trade finance for importers by converting a short-term loan to a medium term one.
Forfar The Royal Burgh of Forfar is a burgh of approximately 13,500 people, located in the unitary authority of Angus in Scotland. It is the district capital and administrative centre of Angus and was the county capital of the former county of Angus.
Forfarshire (ship) The Forfarshire was a paddlesteamer with brigantine rigging, built in Dundee in 1834, and which struck and later foundered on one of the Farne Islands on the 7 September 1838, giving rise to the rescue for which Grace Darling is famed.
Forfás Forfás is the national policy advisory board for enterprise, trade, science, technology and innovation in the Republic of Ireland. The agency was established in January 1994 under the Industrial Development Act, 1993 and is run by a board appointed by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade & Employment, to whom the agency is responsible.
Forfeit (baseball) In rare cases, baseball games are forfeited, and the score is recorded with the forfeiting team scoring no runs; their opponents are credited with the same number of runs as innings scheduled. Thus, a forfeited professional baseball game score will be 9-0; most amateur leagues play seven-inning games, thus forfeits are recorded as 7-0.
Forficula auricularia Forficula auricularia, the Common earwig or European earwig, is an omnivorous insect in the family Forficulidae. Native to Europe, it has been introduced to North America in the early twentieth century and is now present throughout much of the continent.
Forfoleda Forfoleda is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 18 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 240 people.
Forge (Doctor Who) The Forge is a fictional black operations organisation from the Big Finish Productions audio plays based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The canonicity of the audio plays, like the other spin-off media, is unclear.
Forge Mill Needle Museum The Forge Mill Needle Museum in Redditch, Worcestershire, is a historic museum celebrating Redditch's industrial heritage. Opened in 1983 by Queen Elizabeth II, it records the fact that in Victorian times, Redditch was the world centre for the manufacture of needles.
Forge welding Forge welding, or pattern welding is a welding process of heating two or more pieces metal and then hammering them together. Its use is ancient, doubtlessly being the first method devised for the joining of metals.
Forge World Forge World is the name of a subsidiary company of Games Workshop run by Tony Cottrell, which designs and sells resin models for the various Games Workshop games, primarily Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer Fantasy Battle.
Forged From The Love of Liberty Forged From the Love of Liberty is the national anthem of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. Originally composed as the national anthem for the short-lived West Indies Federation (1958-1962), this song was adopted by Trinidad and Tobago when it became independent in 1962.
Forged Prescriptions Forged Prescriptions is a 2-CD album by Spacemen 3, containing the entirety of their album The Perfect Prescription as well as alternate and demo versions of the same songs, and some previously-unreleased tracks.
Forgery Forgery is the process of making or adapting objects or documents (see false document), with the intention to deceive. The similar crime of fraud is the crime of deceiving another, including through the use of objects obtained through forgery.
Forgery (MAC) In a digital signature or Message Authentication Code (MAC) system, an Selective forgery is the creation (by an adversary) of chosen message m and a valid signature (or MAC) sigma for m, where m has not been signed or MACed in the past by the legitimate signer/MAC generator.
Forges de Syam The Forges de Syam (Syam Forges) are forge works and sheet metal mills which are still active in 2005, although the buildings were erected in the 19th century and part of the machinery from that time is still in use. The factory was built at the confluence of the rivers Ain and Saine to the south of Champagnole in the French département of Jura.
Forget Magazine Forget Magazine is an online Canadian literary magazine founded on Valentines Day, 2001, first based in Charlottetown, now based in Vancouver. It has featured original works of poetry, fiction and journalism by first-time authors and well-known Canadian writers.
Forget Me Not "Forget Me Not" is a 1968 single by Motown girl group Martha and the Vandellas. Though the song failed to ignite charts in America barely hitting the Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at #93 (it was the b-side to their hit, "I Promise to Wait My Love") and failing to chart on the US R&B charts (a rarity for the group), it became a big hit on the UK pop singles chart peaking at #11 netting them their biggest UK hit in several years.
Forget Paris Forget Paris is a 1995 film starring Billy Crystal as a NBA referee and Debra Winger as an independent working woman, whose lives are interrupted by love and marriage. It also stars Julie Kavner, Joe Mantegna, Richard Masur, and Cynthia Stevenson.
Forget the World Forget the World is the debut album by the Los Angeles, California ska band The Hippos, released in 1997 by Vagrant Records and Fueled by Ramen Records. It was the band's first full-length album and established their presence in the prolific southern California music scene of the mid-1990s.
Forgetful functor A forgetful functor is a type of functor in mathematics. The nomenclature is suggestive of such a functor's behaviour: given some object with structure as input, some or all of the object's structure or properties is 'forgotten' in the output.
Forgetting Forgetting (retention loss) is a spontaneous or gradual process in which old memories are unable to be recalled from memory storage. It is subject to delicately balanced optimization that ensures that relevant memories are recalled.
Forgive or Forget Forgive or Forget was a talk show which aired in national syndication across the United States from June 1998 to May 2000. The premise of the show involved people talking about past incidents in which the guests had wronged, or had been wronged by, a friend or a loved one, in search of making amends.
Forgiven (song) Forgiven is the second Christian radio single off Relient K's newest album, Five Score and Seven Years Ago and it was released just days before the lead single. The song was officially released to Christian radio somewhere around December 1, 2006, but could be heard on radio as early as November 24.
Forgiveness Forgiveness is the mental, emotional and/or spiritual process of ceasing to feel resentment or anger against another person for a perceived offence, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution. Forgiveness may be considered simply in terms of the person who forgives, in terms of the person forgiven and/or in terms of the relationship between the forgiver and the person forgiven.
Forgiveness and Stuff Things are still not alright between Rory and Lorelai; Rory needs advice about the perfect Christmas gift for Dean; Emily and Lorelai have a small spat about Christmas dinner, leaving Rory to go by herself; Dean and Lorelai patch things up; Luke makes Lorelai a Santa burger; Richard is rushed to the hospital; Luke gives a car-less Lorelai a ride to the hospital.
Forgotten Freshness (Original) Forgotten Freshness was a 1995 compilation album from the Insane Clown Posse. The first in the "Forgotten Freshness Series", the album features unreleased and "lost" tracks that are harder to find elsewhere.
Forgotten Freshness Volume 4 The Forgotten Freshness series of CDs feature rare and unreleased tracks by the Insane Clown Posse. Because of the release of the original Forgotten Freshness in 1995 this can be considered the fifth album in the series, but it is the fourth "volume".
Forgotten Futures Forgotten Futures is a role-playing game created by Marcus Rowland to allow people to play in settings inspired by Victorian and Edwardian science fiction and fantasy. Most of its releases begin with these stories then add background material to explain the settings (often as alternate worlds whose history diverges from our own), adventures, and other game material.
Forgotten Kingdoms Forgotten Kingdoms (called FK affectionately by those who play) is a Role Playing Game based on Dungeons & Dragons third edition and set in TSR's Forgotten Realms campaign setting. It has been online since around 1999 and is made up of an enormous world (over 30,000) rooms.
Forgotten Realms The Forgotten Realms is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game, created by Canadian author and game designer Ed Greenwood. Commonly referred to as simply The Realms, it became the most popular setting with D&D gamers in the 1990s, boosted by the success of novels by authors such as R.
Forgotten Realms (Spyro) In the Spyro game series, specifically Year of the Dragon, the Forgotten Realms are where the dragons lived before the Sorceress banished the dragons to the opposite side of the world (the Dragon Realms in Spyro 1). The realms were rediscovered when the Sorceress, noticing her fading magic, tries to regain it by sending some rhynocs and Bianca to steal the eggs after the Year of the Dragon celebration in the Dragon Worlds.
Forgotten Realms Archives - Silver Edition A compilation of the AD&D Forgotten Realms series through 1996, including 13 complete games: Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness, Hillsfar, Eye of the Beholder I-III, Blood and Magic, Dungeon Hack, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and Menzoberranzan. Also includes an interactive demo for 1998's Baldur's Gate.
Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures, also known as Unlimited Adventures, or by the acronyms FRUA or UA, is a computer game originally released on March 17, 1993 by Strategic Simulations, Inc. for the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh.
Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone is a video game that was released in 2004 for various consoles, including PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It is set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), but the gameplay only vaguely models D&D's structure.
Forgotten Rebels The Forgotten Rebels are a punk rock band from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. With roots dating back to 1977 right up until the present time, the Forgotten Rebels have left a legacy of seven albums and a collection of EPs and singles that have influenced many other Canadian and international bands forming in their wake.
Forgotten Silence (band) Forgotten Silence is a band hailing from the Czech Republic that was founded in 1994. In the years that followed the band produced 2 full length albums, "Thots" from 1996 and "Senyaan" from 1998.
Forgotten Sins Forgotten Sins was a 1996 television movie based on Lawrence Wright's book Remembering Satan, which was in turn based on the actual case of Paul Ingram. It originally aired on the ABC Network on March 7, 1996.
Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, set in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The module bears the code WG4 and was published by TSR, Inc.
Forgotten Widows The "Forgotten Widows" are a group of women who were barred from receiving any compensation after the death of their United States Military spouses. As a result of the Survivor Benefit Plan being passed in the late 1970s, spouses of servicemembers who died before the act was put into effect were cut off from receiving any aid from the military.
Forgotten Worlds Forgotten Worlds (Lost Worlds in Japan) is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game created in 1988 by Capcom. The game was later ported to several home video game consoles; all the Sega ported versions were reprogrammed by Sega during release.
Forgottonia Forgottonia (also spelled Forgotonia) is the name given to a 14 county region in western Illinois in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This geographic region forms the distinctive western bulge of Illinois that is roughly equivalent to 'The Tract", the Illinois portion of the Military Tract of 1812, along and west of the Fourth Principal meridian.
Forchbahn The Forchbahn (German for "Forch railway") is a gauge narrow-gauge (Schmalspurbahn) light railway in ZĂĽrich, linking central ZĂĽrich (ZĂĽrich Stadelhofen) to the eastern suburbs near Esslingen via Forch. The name is often abbreviated to just FB, which also appears on the trains.
Forchheim (Oberfranken) Forchheim is a large district city in Franconia in northern Bavaria, and also the seat of the administrative region of Upper Franconia (Oberfranken in German). Forchheim is a former royal city, and is sometimes called the “Gateway to the Franconian Switzerland”, as the region is known.
Fork (chess) In chess, a fork is a tactic that uses one piece to attack two or more of the opponent's pieces at the same time, hoping to achieve material gain (by capturing one of the opponent's pieces) because the opponent can only counter one of the two (or more) threats. The piece moving to make the multiple attack on the opponent's pieces is the forking piece.
Fork (operating system) A fork, when applied to computing is when a process creates a copy of itself, which then acts as a "child" of the original process, now called the "parent". More generally, a fork in a multithreading environment means that a thread of execution is duplicated.
Fork (software development) In software engineering, a project fork happens when developers take a copy of source code from one software package and start independent development on it, creating a distinct piece of software. Free or open source software is inherently prone to forking.
Fork bomb The fork bomb is a form of denial of service attack against a computer system that uses the fork function. It relies on the assumption that the number of programs and processes which may be simultaneously executed on a computer has a limit.
Fork etiquette In Western etiquette, there are two primary styles for using a knife and fork while eating. The style used mostly in the United States of America, which sometimes called the zigzag method, differs from the style mostly used in Europe and British Commonwealth countries.
Fork in the road (metaphor) A fork in the road is a metaphor, [in the road|based on a literal expression], for a deciding moment or a [point|turning point] in life or history when a major choice of options is required. Compare "crossing the Rubicon".
Fork tube The fork tubes link a motorcycle's front wheel to the front of the frame and are generally used in pairs, called motorcycle forks. Fork tubes house the front suspension assembly and compress and extend to adjust for inconsistencies in the road, allowing the front tire to maintain contact with the road for better handling and braking without the rider feeling the up-and-down movement of the wheel.
Fork-exec Fork-exec is a commonly used technique in Unix whereby an executing process spawns a new program. fork() is the name of the system call that the parent process uses to "divide" itself ("fork") into two identical processes.
Fork-tailed Drongo The Fork-tailed Drongo, Dicrurus adsimilis, is a drongo, a type of small passerine bird of the Old World tropics. They were previously classed as the family Dicruridae, but that has been much enlarged to include a number of largely Australasian groups, such as the Australasian fantails, monarchs and paradise flycatchers.
Forked River, New Jersey Forked River (pronounced fork'ed river) is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Lacey Township, in Ocean County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 4,914.
Forkhill Forkhill (Irish: Foirceal na Cleire; literally translating as Cold wool of the Priests or Sub cell of the Priests) is a small village in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland, close to the border with County Louth in the Republic of Ireland. It is close to both Newry and Dundalk and lies in the foothills of Slieve Gullion .
Forklift truck A forklift truck, a lift truck or a forklift is a powered industrial truck used to lift and transport materials, normally by means of steel forks inserted under the load. Forklifts are most commonly used to move loads stored on pallets.
Forlandet National Park Forlandet National Park lies on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. the park was created by a royal resolution on June 1st, 1973 and covers the entire island of Prins Karls Forland and well as sea territory around it.
Forlorn hope Forlorn hope is a military term that comes from the Dutch verloren hoop, which should be translated as "lost troop" although in Dutch it can also mean "lost hope". In the days of muzzle-loading muskets it was most frequently used to refer to the first wave of soldiers attacking a breach in defences during a siege.
Form Form (Lat. forma), in general, refers to the external shape, appearance, configuration of an object, in contrast to the matter or content or substance of which it is composed; thus a speech may contain excellent arguments (the matter may be good), whereas the style, grammar, arrangement (the form) may be bad.
Form (botany) In botanical nomenclature, a form (forma) is a taxon at a rank below that of variety; it is an infraspecific taxon. Its name consists of three parts: a genus name, a specific epithet, and an infraspecific epithet.
Form (education) A form is a grade, class or grouping of students in a UK school. Pupils are usually grouped in forms according to age and will remain with the same group for a number of years, or sometimes their entire school career.
Form (zoology) In describing variation in animals, especially insects, several terms and abbreviations have been used, additionally, following a binomen or trinomen. Many other 'typical specimens' may be described, but these should not be considered as being absolute, unconditional or categorical.
Form 10-K405 A form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that indicates that an officer or director of a public company failed to file a Form 4 (or related Form 3 or Form 5) on time, in violation of Section 16 - meaning that they did not disclose their trading activities within the required time period.
Form 13F Form 13F is a quarterly report of equity holdings by institutional investment managers having equity assets under management of $100 million or more. These include some banks, insurance companies, investment advisers, investment companies, foundations and pension funds.
Form 144 A form must be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commision as notice of the proposed sale of restricted securities or securities held by an affiliate of the issuer in reliance on Rule 144 when the amount to be sold during any three month period exceeds 500 shares or units or has an aggregate sales price in excess of $10,000.
Form 3 A form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to indicate a preliminary insider transaction by an officer, director, or beneficial (10%) owner of the company's securities. These are typically seen after a company IPOs when insiders make their first transactions.
Form 4 About Form 4 Filing: Every director, officer or owner of more than ten percent of a class of equity securities registered under Section 12 of the '34 Act must file with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission a statement of ownership regarding such security. The initial filing is on Form 3 and changes are reported on Form 4.
Form 5 A form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on an annual basis by company officers, directors, or beneficial (10%) owners, which summarizes their insider trading activities. This form is simply a combination of years Form 4 filings, which are mandatory filings made shortly after insiders make transactions.
Form 8-K Form 8-K is a report filed by public companies with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. After a significant event like bankruptcy or departure of a CEO, a public company must file a Form 8-K within four days to provide an update to their Form 10-K report.
Form book A form book is a tool used by attorneys to aid in the filing of pleadings and motions and other such documents with a court or similar decision-making body. It is usually a binder containing loose-leaf pages, each of which has a form, or model, of a different kind of motion that the attorney might file with a court.
Form criticism Form criticism is a method of biblical criticism adopted as a means of analyzing the typical features of texts, especially their conventional forms or structures, in order to relate them to their sociological contexts.
Form factor (electronics) In electronics, the form factor of an alternating current waveform (signal) is the ratio of the RMS (Root Mean Square) value to the average value (mathematical mean of absolute values of all points on the waveform). In case of a sinusoidal wave, the form factor is approximately 1.
Form factor (QFT) In effective field theory, a form factor is a function which gives the properties of a certain particle interaction without including all of the underlying physics. It is measured experimentally when a theoretical calculation is unavailable or too difficult.
Form follows function Form follows function is a principle associated with Modern architecture and industrial design in the 20th Century, which states that the shape of a building or object should be predicated on its intended purpose.
Form F-4 Form F-4 is used to register securities in connection with business combinations and exchange offers involving foreign private issuers. These activities include mergers & acquisitions, going-private transactions, rights offerings, and other similar deals conducted by foreign entities.

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