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National coalition against censorship The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), founded in 1974, is an alliance of 50 national non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. United by a conviction that freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression must be defended, we work to educate our own members and the public at large about the dangers of censorship and how to oppose them.
National constituencies (Fiji) National constituencies are a former feature of the Fijian electoral system. They were created as a compromise between demands for universal suffrage on a common voters' roll, and for a strictly communal franchise, with Parliamentary constituencies allocated on an ethnic basis and elected only by voters enrolled as members of specific ethnic groups.
National costume National costume, also known as national dress, regional costume or folk dress, expresses an identity through costume which usually relates to a geographic area, but can also indicate social, marital and/or religious status. Such costumes often come in two forms: one for everyday occasions, the other for festivals and formal wear.
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights is a Christian missionary organization headed by Paul Divakar in Secuderbad, India, working among the Dalits, but has been criticized for spreading communalism and forced conversions.
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, founded in February 1996, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan initiative supported almost entirely by private donations. Its mission is to improve the well-being of children, youth, and families by reducing teen pregnancy.
National Campus and Community Radio Association The National Campus and Community Radio Association/L'Association nationale des radios Ă©tudiantes et communautaires (NCRA/ANREC) is a non-profit organization of campus radio and community radio stations in Canada.
National Cancer Centre The National Cancer Centre (abbrev: NCCS; Chinese: 新加坡癌症中心) is a cancer specialist medical centre based in Singapore in the Singapore General Hospital. It is committed to excellence in research, education and clinical services.
National Cancer Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is part of the United States Federal government's National Institutes of Health. The NCI is a federally funded research and development center, one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service in the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
National Cancer Research Institute The National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) is a partnership between the government, charity and industry in the United Kingdom which takes a strategic planning role in co-ordinating cancer research. Rather than replace or duplicate any of the functions of its 20 member associations and agencies, it seeks to add value through joint planning, coordination and initiating projects for the benefit of cancer research and, ultimately, cancer patients.
National Capital Authority The National Capital Authority (NCA) is a body of the Australian Government that was established to manage the Commonwealth's interest in the planning and development of Canberra as the capital city of Australia.
National Capital Commission The National Capital Commission (NCC), known in French as the Commission de la capitale nationale (CCN), is a Canadian Crown corporation that administers the federally owned lands and buildings in Canada's National Capital Region, including Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. The role of the NCC is to champion the interests of Ottawa and surrounding region as the nation's capital, typically with regards to issues of national interest, such as planning of monument and museum sites, events such as Canada Day and major streetscapes such as Confederation Boulevard.
National Capital Development Commission The National Capital Development Commission (NCDC) was an Australian Commonwealth Government body created to complete the establishment of Canberra as the seat of government. It was created in 1957 through the National Capital Development Commission Act 1957.
National Capital District (Papua New Guinea) The National Capital District of Papua New Guinea is the incorporated area around Port Moresby, which is the capital of Papua New Guinea. It covers an area of 240 km² and has a population of 254,158 (2000 census).
National Capital Freenet Founded in 1992 by people affiliated with Carleton University, the National Capital Freenet (NCF) is a non-profit community organization BBS, with the goal to link people in Canada's capital of Ottawa. It was the second free-net set up world-wide.
National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission The National Capital Memorial Advisory Commission is the organ of the United States government responsible for approving memorials within Washington, DC and nearby neighboring areas. It was established by Public Law 99-652, Sec.
National Capital Planning and Development Committee The National Capital Planning and Development Committee (NCPDC) was a body of the Australian government formed in 1938 to oversee the development of Canberra. The NCPDC was to advise the Minister of the Interior to safeguard the Griffin plan and maintain high aesthetic and architectural standards worthy of a National Capital.
National Capital Region (Canada) The National Capital Region is an official federal designation for the Canadian capital of Ottawa, Ontario, the neighbouring city of Gatineau, Quebec and the surrounding area. Also known as Ottawa-Gatineau (or previously Ottawa-Hull), the National Capital Region has a total population of 1,198,330 The sum of the populations of all the municipalities in the national capital region in the 2001 Census (2001), and consists of an area of 5,318.
National Capital Region (India) The National Capital Region (NCR) in India is an informal name for the connurbation or metropolitan area which encompasses the entire National Capital Territory of Delhi as well as the neighbouring satellite towns of Faridabad and Gurgaon in Haryana, and Noida, Greater Noida and Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.
National Captioning Institute The National Captioning Institute is a non-profit organization that provides closed captioning for television and movies. Created in 1979 and headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, the organization was the first to caption live TV and home video.
National Car Test The National Car Test, or NCT, is a roadworthiness test, which all cars in the Republic of Ireland must undergo. The test must first be taken when the car is between 3½ and 4 years old, with the second test between 5¾ and 6 years old and every two years after that.
National Caricaturist Network The National Caricaturist Network is an international non-profit trade association founded in 1989. Its purpose is to promote of the art of caricature, educate the public and the media about the art of caricature and to provide its members with helpful information about caricature as an as artform as well as profession.
National Carillon The National Carillon is a large carillon situated on Aspen Island in Lake Burley Griffin, Canberra, Australia. It is managed and maintained by the National Capital Authority on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia.
National Catfish Day National Catfish Day is a national observance of the United States celebrating "the value of farm-raised catfish." The day was designated as June 25, 1987, by President Ronald Reagan, who issued the Presidential Proclamation after the U.
National Catholic Community Service The National Catholic Community Service (NCCS) was formed in 1940 and ceased operations in 1980. Its purpose was to serve the spiritual, social, educational, and recreational needs of Catholic military personnel and civilian defense workers and their families.
National Catholic Educational Association The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) is a private professional educational association of over 200,000 educators in Catholic schools, universities, and religious education programs. It claims to be the largest such organization in the world.
National Catholic Reporter The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) is an independent weekly newspaper published since 1964 by laypeople, nuns and priests of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. It is circulated in the United States as well as ninety-six other countries on six continents.
National Catholicism National Catholicism (nacionalcatolicismo) was part of the ideological identity of Francoism, the dictatorial regime with which Francisco Franco governed Spain between 1936 and 1975. Its most visible manifestation was the hegemony that the Catholic Church had in all aspects of public and private life.
National Cattlemen's Beef Association National Cattlemen's Beef Association or NCBA, an advocacy group for beef producers in the United States, reports that it works "to increase profit opportunities for cattle and beef producers by enhancing the business climate and building consumer demand." The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is funded by the Beef Checkoffwhich imposes a mandatory assessment each time a head of cattle is sold[http://www.
National Caucus of Labor Committees The National Caucus of Labor Committees (NCLC) is a political cadre organization in the United States founded and controlled by political activist Lyndon LaRouche, who has sometimes described it as a "philosophical association." It originated as the Labor Caucus of the radical student organization Students for a Democratic Society, and became the NCLC in January 1969 after the group was expelled from SDS.
National CAD Standard The National CAD Standard is a collaborative effort in the United States between the National Institute of Building Sciences, the American Institute of Architects, and the Construction Specifications Institute, to create a unified approach to the creation and collaboration of building design data by means of building information modeling and integrated into CAD software such as Microstation and AutoCAD.
National Center for Biomedical Ontology The National Center for Biomedical Ontology is a consortium of biologists, clinicians, informaticians, and ontologists who develop innovative technology and methods designed to allow scientists to create, disseminate, and manage biomedical information and knowledge in machine-processable form. The Center's resources include the Open Biomedical Ontologies (OBO) library, the Open Biomedical Data (OBD) repositories, and tools for accessing and using this biomedical information in research.
National Center for Biotechnology Information The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health. The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland and was founded in 1988.
National Center for Data Mining The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) was established in 1998 to serve as a resource for research, standards development, and outreach for high performance and distributed data mining and predictive modeling.
National Center for Digital Government National Center for Digital Government (NCDG) is a research center based at University of Massachusetts, Amherst's Center for Public Policy and Administration. The center is focused in researching the impact of Information Technology on governance and the organizational structure of institutions.
National Center for Engineering and Technology Education The National Center for Engineering and Technology Education is a partnership of four land-grant reseach universities (Utah State University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Illinois and the University of Georgia), five technology teacher education universities (Brigham Young University, California State University at Los Angeles, University of Wisconsin - Stout, Illinois State University and North Carolina A&T State University) and fifteen K-12 school districts. The center was funded by the National Science Foundation in 2004 under NSF program award 0426421.
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention The National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHSTP) is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is responsible for public health surveillance, prevention research, and programs to prevent and control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and tuberculosis (TB). Center staff work in collaboration with governmental and nongovernmental partners at community, State, national, and international levels, applying well-integrated multidisciplinary programs of research, surveillance, technical assistance, and evaluation.
National Center for Hydrogen Technology The National Center for Hydrogen Technology (NCHT) is a research center that is located at the Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) on the University of North Dakota campus in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The EERC does extensive research in hydrogen and fuel cell technology at the NCHT.
National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases The National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), formerly known as the National Immunization Program until April, 2006, is charged with responsibility for the planning, coordination, and conduct of immunization activities in the United States. NCIRD is a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, located in Atlanta, Georgia, and housed in the CDC’s Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases (CCID).
National Center for Jewish Film The National Center for Jewish Film, located at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts is dedicated to preserving the Jewish heritage, through its collection of over 12,000 reels of film. The collection includes features, documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and home movies.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a private, non-profit organization established in the United States in 1984 under United States government mandate. The NCMEC acts as clearinghouse of information and as a contact point to parents, children, law enforcement agencies, schools, and communities providing assistance to help recover missing children and to raise public awareness about ways to help prevent child abduction, molestation, and sexual exploitation.
National Center for Policy Analysis The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is a non-profit think tank. NCPA states that its goal is to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control, solving problems by relying on the strength of the competitive, entrepreneurial private sector.
National Center for Reason and Justice The National Center for Reason and Justice a national non-profit organization disseminating information to the public about claims of injustice in the current criminal justice sysrem and facilitating financial and legal assistance for people the organization considers likely to have been falsely accused or wrongfully convicted.
National Center for State Courts The National Center for State Courts, or NCSC, is a non-profit organization charged with improving judicial administration in the United States and around the world. It functions as a think-tank, library, non-profit consulting firm for the courts, advocate for judicial and legislative reform, and a center of education in the field of judicial administration.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is one of five original centers in the National Science Foundation's Supercomputer Centers Program and a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The center was founded when a group of University of Illinois faculty, led by Larry Smarr, sent an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation in 1983.
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime In November 1982, following a meeting between members of the Criminal Personality Research Project advisory board and other specialists, the concept of a single National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) was put forward. This elite investigative branch was never envisaged as a replacement for traditional crime investigation by local law enforcement agencies.
National Center for University Entrance Examinations The National Center for University Entrance Exams or colloquially (独立行政法人大学入試センター, dokuritsu gyōsei hōjin Daigaku Nyushi Center, DNC) is an Independent Administrative Institution that administers the National Center Test for University Admissions and law school entrance exams in Japan.
National Center for Women and Information Technology The US National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) aims to ensure that women are fully represented in the world of information technology (IT). NCWIT's goal is to achieve professional IT workforce parity within 20 years, and its work aims to connect efforts concerning K-12 and higher education through to industry and academic careers.
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), at Columbia University, is the only national organization which brings together under one roof all the professional disciplines needed to study and combat abuse of all substances - alcohol, nicotine, illegal drugs, prescription drugs and performance enhancing drugs - in all sectors of society.
National Center Test for University Admissions The National Center Test for University Admissions (Japanese: 大学入試センター試験, Daigaku Nyushi Center Shiken), is a type of standardized test used by public and some private universities in Japan. It is held annually during a weekend in mid-January over a period of two days.
National Centers for Environmental Prediction The US National Centers for Environmental Prediction delivers national and global weather, water, climate and space weather guidance, forecasts, warnings and analyses to its Partners and External User Communities. These products and services are based on a service-science legacy and respond to user needs to protect life and property, enhance the nation's economy and support the nation's growing need for environmental information.
National Centre for Biological Sciences The National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore is a centre of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India. It is located in north Bangalore, on the campus of the University of Agricultural Sciences at the Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra.
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics India's National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA), located on the Pune University Campus, is part of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. At Khodad, 80 km from Pune, NCRA has set up the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), the world's largest telescope operating at meter wavelengths.
National Centre for Science Communicators The National Centre for Science Communicators (NCSC) is a pulsating science communication organisation with national and international reach. It’s members include science communicators from varied fields of communication - print media, television, radio, science centres etc.
National Centre for the Performing Arts (India) The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), in Mumbai, India was established with a grant of Rs 4 million from the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. This was later supplemented by donations from the corporate sector.
National Centre for Technology in Education The National Centre for Technology in Education (NCTE) is an Irish Government agency established in 1998 to facilitate the development, funding and use of information and communications technologies in education in the Republic of Ireland.
National Centre of Independents and Peasants The National Center of Independents and Peasants (Centre National des Indépendants et Paysans, CNIP) was a liberal-conservative political party in France, founded in 1948 as National Centre of Independents. It was the heir of the French Republican tradition, so that many party members came from the Democratic Republican Alliance.
National Centre of Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS" Demokritos is a scientific research centre in Greece, officially known as the National Centre of Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS" (NCSR). The centre is located in a suburb of Athens called Agia Paraskevi.
National Centre Party (Ireland) The National Centre Party was a political party in the Irish Free State founded in late 1932 the party was initially know as the National Farmers and Ratepayers League. Its most prominent members were Frank MacDermott, the leader of the party, and James Dillon, who was the son of the last leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party, John Dillon.
National Certificate The National Certificate (NCert) (Irish: Teastais Náisiúnta) is a two-year broadly based higher education qualification in a technology discipline offered by an Institute of Technology or a HETAC designated institution in Ireland. The certificate will generally exempt a student from the first year of a four-year university Bachelor's degree or the first two years of an ab initio National Diploma in Ireland.
National Certificate of Educational Achievement The National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) is New Zealand's official secondary school qualification normally offered to senior high school students— Year 11 through to Year 13. NCEA uses criterion or standard-based assessment.
National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork Initiated by the American Massage Therapy Association in 1992, the National Certification Exam has become the standard for licensure used by most of the 33 states that regulate massage, to measure a competent and qualified practitioner. More than 60,000 massage therapists now have National Certification.
National Cipher Challenge The National Cipher Challenge is an annual cryptographic competition organised by the University of Southampton School of Mathematics. Competitors attempt to break cryptograms published on the competition website.
National Citizens Coalition The National Citizens Coalition is a Canadian libertarian-conservative lobby group. It supports privatization, tax cuts, and government spending cuts and opposes laws that limit spending by non-party organizations during election campaigns.
National City Brokers National City Brokers, or NCB is a stockbroking firm based in Dublin, Ireland. Founded by Dermot Desmond, NCB firmly established its reputation by sponsoring a yacht NCB Ireland in the 1989 Whitbread Round-the-world yacht race, now the Volvo Ocean Race.
National City Lines Between 1936 and 1950, National City Lines (NCL), a holding company sponsored and funded by General Motors, Firestone Tire, Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum, bought out more than 100 electric surface-traction (streetcar) systems in 45 cities (including New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Tulsa, and Los Angeles).
National City Tower National City Tower is a skyscraper in Downtown, Louisville, Kentucky, United States, and located at 101 South Fifth Street. The 40-story, 512-foot high structure was designed by architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz and was completed in 1972.
National Civic Council (NCC) The National Civic Council (NCC) is an Australian public policy think tank. The NCC exists to develop and promote policy initiatives in support of 'traditional family values' and state intervention in the economy.
National Civic Federation The National Civic Federation, was a federation of American businesses and labor leaders founded in 1900. It favoured moderate progressive reform and sought to resolve disputes arising between industry and organized labor.
National Civic League The National Civic League is an organization founded in 1894 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at a meeting of politicians, policy-makers, journalists, and educators (including Theodore Roosevelt, Louis Brandeis, Marshall Field, and Frederick Law Olmsted) to discuss the future of American cities. Originally called the National Municipal League, it aimed to increase the transparency and honesty of city governments, and share knowledge between cities.
National Civic Veterans Party The National Civic Veterans Party (Spanish: Partido Nacional de Veteranos y Civiles) is a minor political party of the Dominican Republic. In the 16 May 2006 election, the party was a member of the defeated Grand National Alliance.
National Civil Defence Cadet Corps The National Civil Defence Cadet Corps (NCDCC) was formed in 2005 and is currently the newest recognized member of the National Uniformed Group. The creation of this Uniformed Group was initiated by the Ministry of Home Affairs in response to the need for the young leaders of tomorrow to have a firm pillar and grounding in Singapore's firm belief of Total Defence.
National Civil War Museum The National Civil War Museum, located at 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is a permanent, nonprofit educational institution created to promote the preservation of material culture and sources of information that are directly relevant to the American Civil War of 1861–1865, and the aftermath period of the war as related to Civil War Veterans' service organizations, including the Grand Army of the Republic, United Confederate Veterans and the Daughters of the Confederacy to 1920. The museum also serves as the National Headquarters for the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW), the legal successor to the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR).
National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus The National Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus, located in Columbus, Georgia, is a 40,000 square foot facility that features two original American Civil War military vessels, uniforms, equipment and weapons used by the Union and Confederate navies. It is the only museum in the nation that tells the story of the two navies during the Civil WarNational Civil War Naval Museum at Port Columbus New Georgia Encyclopedia.
National Civilian Community Corps AmeriCorps*NCCC, or National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), is an AmeriCorps program in which 18- to 24-year-olds dedicate 10 months to address national and community needs. 1,200 Members are trained annually at and operate from one of three regional campuses, located in Sacramento, California, Denver, Colorado, and Perry Point, Maryland.
National Coal Board The National Coal Board (NCB) was the Statutory Corporation created to run the nationalised British coal mining industry. It was created in 1947 as part of Clement Attlee's Labour Government's nationalisation of industries.
National Coal Mining Museum for England The National Coal Mining Museum for England is based on the site of the old Caphouse Colliery. This mine was worked from at least 1789 until the seam was exhausted in 1985 following the UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985) and work was started to convert it into a museum.
National Coalition Against Censorship The National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), founded in 1974, is an alliance of 50 national non-profit organizations, including literary, artistic, religious, educational, professional, labor, and civil liberties groups. United by a conviction that freedom of thought, inquiry, and expression must be defended, they work to educate their members and the public at large about the dangers of censorship and how to oppose them.
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) is the oldest survivor-led cancer advocacy organizations in the United States and a voice at the federal level, advocating for quality cancer care for all Americans and empowering cancer survivors.
National Coalition for the Homeless The National Coalition for the Homeless is a non-profit organization providing direct assistance for homeless people with a variety of needs which include shelter, food, affordable housing and opportunities to work and earn a living wage. The Coalition also acts as an advocacy group on behalf of the homeless to protect their rights as citizens and human beings.
National Collector's Mint The National Collector's Mint is a company based in Port Chester, New York that produces novelty commemorative coins. Notable recent coins include replica gold 1933 Double Eagle coins and a 2004 coin representing the World Trade Center and proposed Freedom Tower.
National College for DUI Defense The National College for DUI Defense (NCDD) is a professional, non-profit corporation dedicated to the improvement of the criminal defense bar, and to the dissemination of information to the public about drunk driving law and related issues. With approximately 800 attorney members nationwide, the organization consists of a Dean, a governing Board of Regents, a Founding Membership, a Sustaining Membership and a General Membership, and is headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama.
National College for School Leadership The National College for School Leadership was opened in 2002 by Tony Blair as a 'Sandhurst' to train head teachers. It is situated in a striking building by Sir Michael Hopkins on the Jubilee Campus of the University of Nottingham.
National College of Business & Technology National College of Business and Technology is a private, for-profit career college operating in the southeastern and east-central United States. It is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.
National College of Music The National College of Music, London, was established in 1894. Today it is principally an examination board, offering the normal grade examinations in music, drama and speech, as well as the diploma examinations of Associate (ANCM), Licentiate (LNCM) and Fellow (FNCM).
National College of Natural Medicine Founded in May 1956, National College of Naturopathic Medicine (NCNM) is the oldest programmatically accredited naturopathic medical school in North America. Naturopathic Medicine has been practiced in the United States since the early 1900s.
National College Television National College Television (NCTV) was an advertiser-supported program network that serviced over 300 college and university television stations. Founded in 1981, the network distributed a schedule of specialized programming to college students.
National Collegiate Athletic Association The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often pronounced "N-C-Double-A" ) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. Its headquarters are currently located in Indianapolis, Indiana and it is currently under the leadership of president Myles Brand.
National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is an athletics association of eight colleges and universities in the Philippines. Established in 1924, the NCAA is the oldest athletic association in the country.
National Collegiate Athletic Association (Philippines) South The National Collegiate Athletic Association - South is an athletic association of colleges and universities mostly coming from NCR and CALABARZON regions of the Philippines. It was established on 1999 by sister schools of the NCAA.
National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame Even though the Hall is not completed, on November 17, 2006 the NABC honored around 180 players, coaches and other notable contributors to college basketball by inducting them into the founding class of the Hall of Fame. Oscar Robertson, Bill Russell, Dean Smith, John Wooden and the family of Dr.
National Collegiate Boxing Association The National Collegiate Boxing Association (NCBA) was founded in 1976 as a non-profit, autonomous organization whose goal is to provide a safe, positive experience for student athletes pursuing the sport of boxing. After 1960, the NCAA no longer sanctioned boxing.
National Collegiate Cancer Foundation The National Collegiate Cancer Foundation provides services and support to the narrow group of college students who have been diagnosed with cancer. The organization's goal is to make the life of college students, who are also cancer patients, a little easier by providing the right resources and support to help them establish a "will win" attitude in their fight.
National Collegiate Rowing Championship The now defunct National Collegiate Rowing Championship was a quasi-official national championship for men's collegiate rowing held in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1983 and 1996. It would pit the winners of the Eastern Sprints, the Pac-10s, the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, and the Harvard-Yale Boat Race against each other in a finals only event.
National Collegiate Wrestling Association The National Collegiate Wrestling Association(NCWA) is a post secondary athletic association built to help the promotion of collegiate wrestling. The organization is compiled of wrestling clubs from primarily across the country; a lot of whom where affected by Title IX Legislation which has costed many wrestling programs across the country.
National Colonial Flag for Australia The National Colonial Flag for Australia (1823/24) was the forerunner of the many Australian flag designs which featured the Southern Cross and Union Flag in combination. It is the first recorded attempt to design a distinctive national flag for Australia.
National Coming Out Day National Coming Out Day is observed on October 11 by members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities and their allies. It is highly encouraged for participants in this movement to wear identifying symbols, such as the pink triangle, the Greek letter lambda, and rainbows, in jewelry and on their clothing, to demonstrate their presence in all walks of life, all ages and all ethnic groups.
National Command Authority The term National Command Authority (or NCA) is by United States military and government to refer to the ultimate lawful source of military orders. The term refers to the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF).
National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament The National Commission for Economic Conversion and Disarmament was founded in 1988, with preliminary work starting as early as November of 1987. The key principals behind the commission were Seymour Melman together with Jonathan Feldman and Robert Krinsky (students of Melman).
National Commission for Human Development National Commission for Human Development (NCHD) is located in Islamabad, Pakistan. Pakistan is the first country to establish a public-private partnership to mobilize global resources for Human Development following the Monterrey Conference for the International Financing of Development, March 2002.
National Commission on Federal Election Reform The United States Presidential election of 2000 was one of the most controversial ever. Legal challenges were taken all the way to the Supreme Court before Al Gore conceded the election to President George Bush.

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