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Meredith Monk Meredith Monk (born November 20, 1942, in Lima, Peru<Ref> is an American] [[composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer. Since the 1960s, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which dwell in the spaces between music, theatre, and dance: "I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.
Meredith Monroe Meredith Leigh Monroe (born December 30, 1969) is an American actress best-known for her role as Andie McPhee on Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2000. She was a recurring special guest star in Season 2, series regular in Seasons 3-4, and a special guest star in the final series episode in Season 6, though these scenes were cut from the televised episode, but appear on the DVD extended cut release.
Meredith Oakes Meredith Oakes is an Australian playwright living in London (born 1946) whose work has included The Neighbour for the Royal National Theatre, Faith at the Royal Court Theatre and The Mind of the Meeting for BBC Radio Four.
Meredith P. Snyder Meredith Pinxton Snyder (1859–April 7, 1937) was four times mayor of Los Angeles, California, USA, serving 1896–1898, 1900–1904 and 1919–1921. He was president of the California Guarantee Corporation and the Texas Gasoline Company.
Meredith Phillips Meredith Phillips (born October 28, 1972 in Beaverton, Oregon) was a prominent participant in the ABC's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette reality television shows. Phillips currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Meredith Poindexter Gentry Meredith Poindexter Gentry was an American politician that represented Tennessee's eighth and seventh districts in the United States House of Representatives. He was born on September 15, 1809 in Rockingham County, North Carolina.
Meredith Starr Roland Meredith Starr (December 29, 1890 - December 13, 1971), whose birth name was Herbert Close, was born in Prestbury House, Hampton, at Richmond upon Thames in the County of Middlesex, England to well-to-do land owning parents ("landed proprietors") William Brooks Close and Mary Baker Brooks Close. When Starr was one year old his parents separated and he was raised by his mother.
Meredith Sue Willis Meredith Sue Willis (born 1946 in Clarksburg, West Virginia), is a writer and teacher probably best known as a member of the literary renaissance in Appalachia during the second half of the 20th century. She is also one of the seminal group of artists and writers who went into the public schools beginning in the late 1960's who have had an effect on the teaching of creative writing and the other arts.
Meredith Vieira Meredith Vieira (born December 30, 1953) is an Emmy Award-winning American television personality, journalist and game show host. She currently co-hosts NBC's The Today Show and is the host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire in syndication.
Merely Mary Ann Merely Mary Ann is a 1931 movie starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell. Gaynor and Farrell made almost a dozen films together, including Frank Borzage's classics Seventh Heaven (1927), Street Angel (1928), and Lucky Star (1929); Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress for the first two and F.
Merengue cibaeño Merengue cibaeño is a type of Merengue music that originates from the northern part of the Dominican Republic, El Cibao. El Cibao is the largest part of the island and includes the provinces of Santiago, La Vega, Montecristi, Puerto Plata, and Mona.
Merenhouse Merenhouse is a style of music developed in the US and Latin America by groups such as Proyecto Uno and Zona 7. It mixes merengue, hip hop and house music, taking mainly rap vocals from hip hop and other musical elements from house music and merengue.
Merenrap Merenrap, or meren-rap, is a style of hip hop music which was formed from the fusion of Dominican merengue music with rapping. The song credited with giving birth to the genre was "Soy Chiquito (No Inventes Papito, No Inventes)", recorded by Santi Y Sus Duendes and Lisa M in 1990.
Merenre Nemtyemsaf I Merenre Nemtyemsaf I (reigned 2283 - 2278 BC) was the fourth king of the Sixth dynasty of Egypt. His nomen, theophorically referring to Nemty, was formerly read as Antyemsaf, a reading now known to be incorrect.
Mereological essentialism Mereological essentialism is the view that objects have their parts essentially. If mereological essentialism is true, it would have the consequence that if an object would lose or gain a part, it would stop to exist.
Mereological nihilism Mereological nihilism (also called compositional nihilism, or what some philosophers just call nihilism) is the position that objects with parts do not exist (not only objects in space, but also objects existing in time do not have any temporal parts, and thus only exist in the present moment), and only basic building blocks without parts exist (e.g.
Mereotopology Mereotopology is a formal theory, combining mereology and topology, of the topological relationships among wholes, parts, and the boundaries between parts. Although the theory is essentially mathematical, it has been entirely developed by logicians and theoretical computer scientists.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait Merepeka Raukawa-Tait (aka Mary Gayle Sims) is a former chief executive of the Women's Refuge organisation of New Zealand. She also stood as a candidate for Parliament, serving briefly as deputy leader of the small Christian Heritage Party.
Mereside Brass Band Mereside brass is a concert brass band based in Pickmere, near Northwich & Knutsford in Cheshire led by Musical Director Mike Phenton. The band have performed all types of music around Cheshire from Arley Hall to Tatton Park and surrounding areas like Buxton and Chatsworth House.
Meret In Egyptian mythology, Meret (also spelt Mert) was the token wife occasionally given to Hapy, the god of the Nile, her name being a reference to this, meaning simply the beloved. As token wife, she was usually depicted with the same associations as Hapy, having on her head either the blue lotus for Upper Egypt, or the papyrus plant for Lower Egypt.
Meretseger In Egyptian mythology, Meretseger (also spelt Mertseger), meaning she who loves silence, was a cobra-goddess, who was originally a personification of the dangers of the desert. Since the first syllable of her name is the same as that in the word pyramid, it became thought that she lived on top of (or was) the pyramid-shaped mountain which overlooked the Valley of the Kings, where the pharaohs' tombs were located.
Merewether High School Merewether High School is a co-educational, academically selective high school for students from Year 7 to Year 12. The Merewether High School site is the block enclosed by School Street, Awaba Street, Chatham Street, Pokolbin Street and Melville Road, in the suburb of Broadmeadow, in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
Merfolk (Dungeons & Dragons) In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, merfolk are a race of humanoids that live underwater. A merfolk has the upper body, arms, and head of a fair-featured human, and instead of legs it has the scaled tail of a great fish.
Merge Module A merge module is a special kind of Windows Installer database that contains the components needed to install a discrete software bundle. A merge module cannot be installed alone, but must be merged into a standard Windows Installer installation during the creation of the installation.
Merge Records Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. Merge was originally founded in Chapel Hill, North Carolina by Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance in 1989 as a way to release singles and cassettes from their band Superchunk, and music created by friends.
Mergelyan's theorem Mergelyan's theorem is a result from complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, named after the Armenian mathematician Sergei Nikitovich Mergelyan (born May 19, 1928), and was put forward by him in 1951. It states the following:
Mergenthaler Linotype Company The Mergenthaler Linotype Company, was founded in the United States in 1886 to market the linecaster invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler. With the company's primary product, the Linotype (pronounced ), it became the world's leading manufacturer of book and newspaper typesetting equipment; outside North America, its only serious challenger for book production was the United States-/England-based Monotype.
Mergenthaler Vocational Technical Senior High School Mergenthaler Vocational Technical Senior High School, commonly referred to as Mervo, is a public high school in Baltimore, Maryland. Mervo opened in 1953 as a vocational-technical school, and is named after Ottmar Mergenthaler.
Merger simulation Merger simulation is a commonly used technique when analyzing potential welfare costs and benefits of mergers between firms. Merger simulation models typically assume Differentiated Bertrand competition within a market.
Merger Treaty The Merger Treaty, signed in Brussels on 8 April 1965 and in force since 1 July 1967, first gathered together the organizational structures of the then three European Communities (European Coal and Steel Community, European Economic Community and Euratom). This formal name was Treaty establishing a Single Council and a Single Commission of the European Communities.
Merguez Merguez is a red, spicy sausage from North Africa , also popular in France and the German state of Saarland. Merguez is made with lamb or beef, and flavoured with harissa, a hot chili paste which gives it a red color.
Mergui Mergui or Myeik () is a city in Taninthayi Division in Myanmar (Burma), located in the extreme south of the country on the coast of an island on the Andaman Sea. The area inland is a major smuggling area into Thailand.
Mergui Archipelago The Mergui Archipelago (also Myeik Archipelago) is an archipelago off the western shore of the Malay Peninsula in far southern Myanmar (Burma). It consists of more than 800 islands, varying in size from very small to hundreds of square kilometres.
Merhan Karimi Nasseri Mehran Karimi Nasseri ( []; (born 1942 in Masjed Soleiman, Iran), also known as Sir, Alfred Mehran [sic], is an Iranian refugee who lived in the departure lounge of Terminal One in Charles de Gaulle Airport from 8 August, 1988 until August of 2006 when he was hospitalized for an unspecified ailment.
Merchandise Building The Merchandise Building is a loft conversion of a historic warehouse located in downtown Toronto on Dalhousie Street, near the campus of Ryerson University and the Toronto Eaton Centre. Built in various stages from 1910-1949 for the Simpson's department store, and later owned by Sears Canada after Simpson's demise, the Merchandise Building at over 1,000,000 square feet is one of the largest buildings by floor area in downtown Toronto and is a classic example of the renowned Chicago School of early 20th century industrial architecture.
Merchandise Mart The Merchandise Mart is one of the largest commercial buildings in the world, located in Chicago, Illinois. It opened in 1930 on the site of the Chicago and North Western Railway's former Wells Street Station, which the railroad had abandoned in favor of the Chicago and North Western Passenger Terminal in 1911.
Merchandise planning Merchandise Planning is a strategic and systematic approach used by retailers, particularly in fashion and non-food areas. It is aimed at maximising return on investment, through planning and monitoring sales, margins and inventory in order to increase profitability.
Merchandising Merchandising refers to the methods, practices and operations conducted to promote and sustain certain categories of commercial activity. The term is understood to have different specific meanings depending on the context.
Merchandization Merchandization is a derogatory term coined by the anti-globalization movement to designate the growing importance of global market forces in the daily lives of citizens, everything, including health care, culture or education, becoming mere merchandise.
Merchant aircraft carrier Merchant aircraft carriers (MAC) were minimal aircraft carriers used during World War II by Britain and the Netherlands as an emergency measure until United States-built escort carriers became available in useful numbers.
Merchant capitalism Merchant capitalism is a term used by economic historians to refer to the earliest phase in the development of capitalism as an economy and social system. In Europe, merchant capitalism first became a significant economic force in the 11th or the 16th century, depending on point of view.
Merchant Ivory Productions Merchant Ivory Productions (1961- ) is a film company founded by director James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant. Their films were for the most part directed by the former, produced by the latter and scripted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (a noted exception was the 1993 film In Custody, directed by Merchant and based upon a novel by Anita Desai).
Merchant Marine Act of 1936 The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 is a United States federal law. Its purpose is "to further the development and maintenance of an adequate and well-balanced American merchant marine, to promote the commerce of the United States, to aid in the national defense, to repeal certain former legislation, and for other purposes.
Merchant Navy Merchant Navy, also known as Merchant Marine denotes a class of seagoing vessels owned and operated by civilian companies, as opposed to the single word Navy, which denotes fighting ships owned and operated by the military arms of sovereign countries. In times of conflict, merchant ships may sometimes officially complement the navy.
Merchant of Venus Merchant of Venus is a board game, published in 1988 by Avalon Hill, set in an unexplored part of the galaxy during a reawakening of galactic civilisation. Players move around the board as traders discovering long forgotten pockets of civilisation and buying and selling goods.
Merchant raider Merchant raiders are ships which disguise themselves as noncombatant merchant vessels, whilst actually being armed and intending to attack enemy commerce. Germany used several merchant raiders early in World War I, and again early in World War II.
Merchant services Merchant services is the name given in the United States to a broad category of financial services intended for use by businesses. In its most specific use, it usually refers to the service that enables a business to accept a transaction payment by use of the customer's credit or debit card.
Merchant Shipping Act 1906 Introduced in 1906 by David Lloyd George, then President of the Board of Trade, the Merchant Shipping Act established regulations covering the standards of food and accommodation on British registered ships. It was part of a number of acts introduced by David Lloyd George, and later Winston Churchill, as President of the Board of Trade, to improve conditions for workers.
Merchant Taylors' Hall, York The Merchant Taylors' Hall in York, England, is a medieval guildhall near the city wall in the Aldwark area of the city. Constructed by the Fraternity of St John the Baptist (an organisation connected to the Taylors' Guild) in the 14th century, it received a new cladding in the 17th century.
Merchants Despatch The Merchants Despatch Transportation Company (MDT, also known as the Merchants Despatch Refrigerator Line) was established in 1857 or 1858 by the American Express Company of New York (then a freight forwarding service). The entity was reformed as a joint stock trading company on June 1, 1869, with ownership divided among the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway (CCC&I), the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, and the New York Central Railroad (NYC), all part of the Cornelius Vanderbilt rail empire.
Merchants of the Steelyard The Merchants of the Steelyard was the English name for the merchants of the Hanseatic League who established their London Kontor in 1320, Located just west of London Bridge near Upper Thames Street. Cannon Street station occupies the site now.
Merchiston Merchiston is a prosperous, mainly residential area in the south-west of Edinburgh. The housing is primarily a mixture of large, late Georgian and Victorian villas – several of the latter by Edward Calvert – together with a smaller number of Victorian tenements and some relatively large, early-twentieth century villas.
Merchiston Castle School Merchiston Castle School is a private boarding school located in the village of Colinton just outside Edinburgh in Scotland. It has approximately 430 pupils and is only open to boys between the ages of 8 and 18 as either boarders or day pupils; day pupils make up 30% of the school.
Meriadar In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Meriadar is a deity of patience, tolerance, meditation, and arts and crafts. Meridar's chief worshippers are mongrelfolk and non-evil goblinoids of any type.
Meriadoc Meriadoc is a name of Brythonic origin, corresponding to Meriadog in modern Welsh, Meryasek (or similar spellings) in Cornish, and Meriadek in modern Breton. It was Latinized as either Meridiadocus or Meriadocus.
Merian C. Cooper Merian Caldwell Cooper (October 24, 1893, Jacksonville, Florida, USA — April 21, 1973, San Diego, California, USA, died of cancer) was an American aviator, American Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, director, screenwriter and producer.
Meribeth Burton Meribeth Burton is a Canadian journalist, best known for her work as a television news anchor and reporter. She is currently a Senior Reporter and back-up anchor at CIVI-TV (A-Channel Vancouver Island) in Victoria, British Columbia.
Meridarch A meridarch (from the Greek meris, "division", and -arch, "ruler") was the civil governor of a province in the Hellenistic world (4th-1st century BCE), and could be translated as "Divisional Commissioner". Only two mentions of Meridrarchs are known from ancient sources, one from Palestine, and the other from the Indo-Greek kingdom in India.
Meriden Gap The Meriden Gap is a mostly rural area located in the West Midlands between Solihull and Coventry. It serves as a green belt which separates the latter from the large West Midlands conurbation, which includes Birmingham and Wolverhampton.
Meriden, Strathfield Meriden, An Anglican School for Girls Sydney, is a non-selective, girls' day school in the suburb of Strathfield, in the inner-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, founded in 1897. The school has an enrolment of 850, and is a school of the Anglican Church, with the motto Semper Fidelis: 'Always Faithful'.
Meriden, West Midlands Meriden is a village and civil parish in the Solihull borough of the West Midlands in England. It is located midway between Birmingham and Coventry, approximately 5 miles away from Birmingham International Airport.
Meridian (astronomy) In the sky, a meridian is an imaginary great circle on the celestial sphere that passes through the zenith and the north point on the horizon. It passes through the north point on the horizon, through the celestial pole, up to the zenith, through the south point on the horizon, and through the nadir, and is perpendicular to the local horizon.
Meridian (comics) 'Meridian' was a comic book series published by CrossGen Comics, and taking place on the planet Demetria, in CrossGen's Sigilverse. It was written by Barbara Kesel, and penciled by a number of artists including Joshua Middleton and Steve McNiven.
Meridian (geography) A meridian is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole that connects all locations with a given longitude. The position of a point on the meridian is given by the latitude.
Meridian (Chinese medicine) The concept of meridians (Chinese: jing-luo 经络) arises from the techniques and doctrines of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, acupressure, and qigong. According to these practices, the body's vital energy, "qi", circulates through the body along specific interconnected channels called meridians.
Meridian 59 Meridian 59 is an online computer role-playing game first published by 3DO Studios and now run by Near Death Studios. First launched online in an early form on December 15, 1995 and released commercially in September 1996 with a flat-rate monthly subscription, Meridian 59 is often credited as the first 3D graphical "massively multiplayer online game" or MMORPG.
Meridian Audio, Ltd. Boothroyd Stuart Meridian is a British manufacturer of high-end high-fidelity audio and video equipment. Founded in the 1970's by Bob Stuart and Allen Boothroyd, its products have proved popular among audiophiles and more recently in the lifestyle technology/home theatre field.
Meridian circle The meridian circle, or transit circle, is an instrument for observing the time of a stars passing the meridian, at the same time measuring its angular distance from the zenith. The idea of having an instrument (quadrant) fixed in the plane of the meridian occurred even to the ancient astronomers and is mentioned by Ptolemy, but it was not carried into practice until Tycho Brahe constructed a large meridian quadrant.
Meridian Energy Meridian Energy Limited, a New Zealand-based company, performs electricity generation and electricity retailing. The company generates the largest proportion of New Zealand's electricity, providing for approximately one-third of the country's power needs (12,000 GWh).
Meridian Lossless Packing Meridian Lossless Packing is a proprietary lossless compression technique for compressing PCM audio data developed by Meridian Audio, Ltd. MLP is the standard lossless compression method for DVD-Audio content (often advertised with the Advanced Resolution logo) and typically provides about 2:1 compression on most music material.
Meridian Mail Meridian Mail was one of the earliest all-digital voicemail systems, running on Northern Telecom's (now Nortel) Meridian Norstar digital PBX systems. The combination of the Meridian's power and Meridian Mail's feature set was one of the major drivers that has turned Nortel into the telephony powerhouse it is today.
Meridian Norstar The Meridian Norstar is a small-office digital PBX introduced by Northern Telecom (now Nortel). It is based on the same internal design and instruction set as Nortel's earlier SL-1 and DMS systems, allowing it to support features such as Meridian Mail, automatic call distribution and other features, but can support a total of up to 192 phones and has limited processing power.
Meridian SL-1 The Meridian SL-1 was the first practical all-digital telephone switch aimed at the smaller PBX market. It was first introduced by Northern Telecom, now Nortel, in 1975, and went on to power the company into a leadership position in the telephony world.
Meridian Southern Railway Meridian Southern Railway , in east Mississippi, USA, is a 55 mile ( km) goods-transport railroad linking Meridian, and Waynesboro, Mississippi. The railroad is connected to the Kansas City Southern Railway at Meridian, and from there to the national rail network.
Meridian-Kessler, Indianapolis Meridian-Kessler is a residential neighborhood located about 4 miles north of downtown Indianapolis. It is bounded on the north by Kessler Boulevard, on the east by the Monon Trail greenway corridor, on the south by 38th Street and to the west by Meridian Street.
Meridianal coordinate system Meridianal coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system that deals with system of meridiator and meridians mounting on the celestial sphere. There are two types of important meridiator on the celestial sphere: Equinox meridiator and Solstice meridiator.
Meridianul Românesc Meridianul Românesc is a Romanian-American newspaper published weekly in the Romanian language. It has no political or religious affiliation, but aims to be the voice of the Romanian-American community, as stated in its editorial policy.
Meridianville, Alabama Meridianville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Madison County, Alabama, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the population of the community is 4,117.
Meridio Meridio is a privately owned software company founded in 2001 with world-wide operations in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific. Meridio develops industry leading enterprise Document and Records Management (eDRM) software exclusively for the Microsoft platform.
Meridional flow Meridional flow is a meteorological term meaning that the general flow pattern is north to south along the earth's longitude lines (the opposite of zonal flow). Extratropical cyclones in this environment tend to be stronger and move slower.
Meridiungulata Clade with the rank of cohort or super-order, part of the Atlantogenata, containing the South-American Ungulates: Xenungulata, Astrapotheria, Notoungulata and Litopterna. This is a new clade, since the member orders are seen as Ungulates by most scientists.
Merihem In demonology, and according to Francis Barrett, Merihem is considered the prince of the spirits or demons of pestilence, and responsible for all plagues and diseases, in other cases Abbadon,The Destroyer, was charged with pestilence. In ancient times these disgraces were attributed to demons.
Merikka In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, Merikka is the Oeridian demigoddess of Agriculture, Farming, and the Home. Her holy symbol is a basket of grain and a long scroll.
Merillat Centre for the Arts The Merillat Centre for the Arts is the fine arts center of Huntington University, located in Huntington, Indiana. The Merillat Centre presents a wide array of student and professional productions throughout the year, including concerts, plays, art exhibits, and lectures.
Merina The Merina is the largest ethnic group in Madagascar. Boasting a population of 3 million, which equals to about one-quarter of the country's population, they speak a Malayo-Polynesian tongue and are concentrated in the central highlands.
Merindad Merindad is a Castilian or Spanish Medieval administrative term that refers to a country subdivision smaller than a province but larger than a municipality. It can roughly approximate the English county or bayliff.
Merindades Located in the north of the province of Burgos, the Merindades are the birth place of the name "Castilla". Most of the villages of the Merindades were quoted in the "Becerro de Behetrias" at the moment of the creation of the subdivision Merindad by Pedro of Castile.
Merindinlogun Merindinlogun is the number 16 in the Yoruba language and literally means "twenty less four" or "four taken from twenty". The number sixteen holds important significance in Yoruba mythology as it was the purported number of Yemaja's children.
Merion Mercy Academy Merion Mercy Academy is an all-girls, independent, Catholic, college preparatory school, grades 9 through 12, sponsored by the Sisters of Mercy. It is located in Merion, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia.
Meriones (genus) Meriones is a genus that includes the gerbil most commonly kept as a pet, Meriones unguiculatus. The genus contains most animals referred to as jirds, but members of the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys are also known as jirds.
Meristics Meristics is an area of ichthyology which relates to counting quantitive features of fish, such as the number of fins or scales. A meristic (countable trait) can be used to describe a particular species of fish, or used to identify an unknown species.
Meristotheca papulosa Meristotheca papulosa (synonyms: M. japonica and Eucheuma papulosa) is a red alga, popular as a sea vegetable in Taiwan, where it is known as jiguancai (), and in Japan, where it is known as tosaka-nori (Japanese: トサカノリ).
Merit (Catholicism) Merit (Latin meritum), in general, is understood to be that property of a good work which entitles the doer to receive a reward (prœmium, merces) from him in whose service the work is done. By antonomastic usage, the word has come to designate also the good work itself, insofar as it deserves a reward from the person in whose service it was performed.
Merit badge A merit badge is a badge or award given to recognize meritorious achievement or the completing of a set of requirements to obtain an award. It is often used to refer to awards given to Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts upon completing the requirements for a badge.
Merit good A merit good is defined in economics as a good that is under consumed if provided by the market mechanism because individuals typically consider how the good benefits them as individuals rather than the benefits that consumption generates for others in society. In economic terms, this is because the positive externalities of the good are not internalized by consumers.
Merit system The merit system is the process of promoting and hiring government employees based on their ability to perform a job, rather than on their political connections. It came as a result of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act which helped to remove power from political machines after the Civil War.
Merit Shop A merit shop company is one whose employee hiring and advancement policies are based on subjective criteria or qualifications determined by the employer, and not by any policy or practice originating from an agreement with a labor union. The term "Merit Shop" was coined by John Trimmer, who served from 1952 to 1976 as an officer of the Associated Builders and Contractors, an American trade association comprised primarily of non-union construction contractors [www.
Merit School of Music Merit School of Music is a nonprofit organization located in Chicago, Illinois. Merit describes its purpose as "to help young people achieve their full musical potential, to remove economic barriers to participation, and to stimulate personal and educational growth through music".
Merit Students Encyclopedia Merit Students Encyclopedia was a printed encyclopedia that was very similar to Collier's Encyclopedia, but was geared towards upper grade school through college level. It was printed by Crowell-Collier Educational Corporation from about 1967-1992 (1967 was sited from the 1969 edition).
Meritage Meritage is a word used to distinguish wines that are made in the style of Bordeaux but without infringing on that region's legally protected appellation. Winemakers must license the right to use the trademark "Meritage" for their wines from The Meritage Association.

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