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Off-key The term "Off-key" is often used to denote musical content that is not at the expected frequency or pitch period, either with respect to some absolute reference frequency, or in a ratiometric sense (i.e.
Off-label use Off-label use is the practice of prescribing drugs for a purpose outside the scope of the drug's approved label, most often concerning the drug's indication. In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires numerous clinical trials to prove a drug's safety and efficacy in treating a given disease or condition.
Off-licence "Off-licence" is a term used in the Commonwealth and Ireland for a shop licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises, as opposed to a bar or public house which is licensed for consumption at the point of sale. The distinction between an off-licence and a pub is analogous to that between a take-away and a restaurant.
Off-Leash Area (theatre company) Off-Leash Area is a contemporary performance company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company focuses on creating original performance pieces that draw on many disciplines in theatre, dance, music, and visual art.
Off-model Off-model is an animation term used to describe a cartoon character drawn out of par with the original source material or model sheets. Off-model drawings are the products of artists or by cartoonists wishing to parody another franchise but not wishing to incur a lawsuit or commit copyright infringement by actually drawing someone else's characters.
Off-network Off-Network Syndicated series are those programs which have already appeared on a commercial network and are now available for reruns. Most off-network syndicated programs are scheduled to air at the same time, five days a week (Monday through Friday).
Off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery Off-pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB) is very similar to the conventional coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) procedure. OPCAB still utilizes a median sternotomy, however the important difference is that the cardiopulmonary bypass pump is not employed.
Off-road vehicle An off-road vehicle is considered to be any type of vehicle which is capable of driving off paved or gravel surface. It is generally characterized by having caterpillar tracks or large tires with deep, open treads and a flexible suspension.
Off-roading Off Roading is a recreational pursuit popular among a small sub-section of the owners of four wheel drive or all-terrain vehicles. The term "Off-Road" refers to a driving surface which is not conventionally paved such as sand, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks and other natural terrain.
Off-sale Off-sale or off-licence refers to the sale of an alcoholic beverage intended for consumption away from the establishment. This is opposed to on-sale or on-licence where alcoholic beverages are consumed on-site, as in pubs, bars and restaurants.
Off-stream Off-stream refers to a water body or system that is not located in a streambed or does not receive significant natural flows. For example, instead of moving water between lakes, an offstream pumped-storage hydroelectric system could use two large tanks of water.
Off-the-grid The term off the grid refers to a method of construction that relies on renewable energy sources rather than traditional public utility sources provided by the utility "grid." In such construction, the home or building constructed does not rely on municipal water supply, sewer, gas, electrical or similar utility services.
Off-the-record messaging Off-the-record messaging, commonly referred to as OTR, is a cryptographic protocol that provides strong encryption for instant messaging conversations. OTR uses a combination of the AES symmetric-key algorithm, the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, and the SHA-1 hash function.
Off-year elections In American politics, an off-year election is generally considered to be the general elections held in odd-numbered years. These elections rarely feature any election to a national office, few state legislative elections, and very few gubernatorial elections.
Offa (woreda) Offa is one of the 77 woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Semien Omo Zone, Offa is bordered on the south by Kucha, on the west by Loma Bosa, on the northwest by Kindo Koysha, on the northeast by Sodo Zuria, and on the east by Humbo.
Offa of Essex Offa was King of Essex until 709, when he abdicated in order that he may take up life in a monastery in Rome along with Cenred, King of Mercia. He was the son of Sigeheard of Essex, and according to some sources St.
Offa of Mercia Offa (died July 26/29, 796) was the King of Mercia from 757 until his death. Prior to the rise of Wessex in the 9th century, he was arguably the most powerful and successful of the Anglo-Saxon kings, effectively ruling much of Britain south of the River Humber during the latter part of his reign.
Offaly Express The Offaly Express, along with its sister paper the Leinster Express, are regional newspapers in Ireland that serve Counties Laois and Offaly. The papers are part of the Leinster Leader Group, which was sold to Johnston Press in late 2005.
Offaly GAA The Offaly County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cumann Luthchleas Gael Coiste UĂ­bh FhailĂ­) or Offaly GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic Games in County Offaly. Separate county boards are also responsible for the Offaly inter-county football, hurling, camogie and ladies football teams.
Offaly Senior Football Championship The Offaly Senior Football Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Offaly Clubs. The winners of the Offaly Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship.
Offaly Senior Hurling Championship The Offaly Senior Hurling Club Championship is an annual Gaelic Athletic Association club competition between the top Offaly Clubs. The winners of the Offaly Championship winners qualify to represent their county in the Leinster Club Championship and in turn, go on to the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship.
Offboard An offboard circuit is one that is not connected to a main circuit board in an electronic system. For example, a computer graphics card is one of the components essential to the proper operation of the computer, but it is not directly attached to the motherboard like a RAM module or CPU.
Offences Against The Person Act 1861 The Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (OAP, 24 & 25 Victoria, Cap. 94) was a major piece of Victorian legislation passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, which consolidated the previously complex mixture of common law and statute into a single Act designed to deal with all the offences which affected the physical health or well-being of people.
Offender Aid and Restoration Offender Aid and Restoration is an organization in Richmond, Virginia devoted to helping those who have been incarcerated to gain and maintain employment. According to OAR, some of the benefits of hiring OAR clients is that they are:
Offender Assessment System This article is about Offender Assessment System which measures the risks and needs of criminal offenders under their supervision. For OASys the German supplier of convertible tops please look for OASys (Automotive).
Offender profiling Offender profiling, or more scientifically, psychological profiling, is a behavioral and investigative tool that helps investigators to profile an unknown subject ("unsub") or offender(s). Offender profiling is also known as criminal profiling, criminal personality profiling, criminological profiling, behavioral profiling or criminal investigative analysis.
Offense (sports) In sport, offense (American English) and offence (British English and Canadian English) is the action of attacking or engaging an opposing team with the objective of scoring points or goals. The term may also refer to the tactics involved in offense, or a sub-team whose primary responsibility is offense.
Offensive coordinator An offensive coordinator typically refers to the coach on a football team in the National Football League or College football who is in charge of the offense. This position aids the head coach by designing and scripting plays, delegating work to offensive position coaches during practices and games, thereby allowing the head coach to focus on overall play and more important issues during games and practice sessions.
Offensive counter air Offensive Counter-Air (OCA) is a military term for the suppression of an enemy's military air power by destroying or disabling the aircraft on the ground and/or destroying or crippling the runways and other infrastructure necessary to operate them.
Offensive counter air attack Offensive Counterair [OCA] operations include attacks on air bases. Aircraft on air bases are often more concentrated and vulnerable than they are in flight, and destroying them at their bases may be much easier than destroying them in aerial combat.
Offensive marketing warfare strategies In marketing and strategic management, marketing warfare strategies are a type of marketing strategy that uses military metaphor to craft a businesses strategy. See marketing warfare strategies for background and an overview.
Offensive philosophy (American football) The approach to offense in American and Canadian football has splintered and evolved in the 100 years in which the modern form of the sport has existed. Many philosophies exist about deploying a team's 11 players, including:
Offensive Specialist Offensive Specialist (OS) is a player in Arena football whose role is solely on offense. This is opposed to most of the players on the field for an Arena Football team, which have to play both offense and defense, until they are subbed for.
Offensive tackle In American football, offensive tackles are a part of the offensive line. Like other offensive linemen, their job is to block: To physically keep defenders away from the offensive player who has the football.
Offer and acceptance Offer and acceptance analysis is a traditional approach in contract law used to determine whether an agreement exists between two parties. An offer is an indication by one person to another of their willingness to contract on certain terms without further negotiations.
Offer curve In economics, and particularly in the theory of international trade an offer curve shows the quantity of one type of product that an agent will export ("offer") for each quantity of another type of product that it imports. The offer curve was first derived by English economists Edgeworth and Marshall to help explain international trade.
Offer in compromise The Offer in Compromise (or OIC) program, in the United States, is an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) program under which allows qualified individuals with an unpaid tax debt to negotiate a settled amount that is less than the total owed in order to clear the debt.
Offer of judgment The Offer of Judgment rule is a tort reform law aimed at controlling unnecessary litigation. Under this rule, if a settlement offer is made in a tort claim for money, the offer is rejected and the final court decision is less favorable than the final offer that was made, then the party who rejected the offer may have to pay the other party for attorney’s fees and costs.
Offer of proof In the context of a trial or a hearing, a presiding judge may issue a ruling denying a party the right to proffer evidence. The party aggrieved by this ruling then has the right to indicate for the record what the evidence would have shown had the adverse ruling not been issued.
Offerdal Court District Offerdal Court District, or Offerdals tingslag, was a district of Jämtland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Offering (Carpenters album) Offering is the first album by American music duo The Carpenters. At the time of its release in 1969 it was a commercial failure and produced only one minor hit single - "Ticket To Ride", a ballad version of a song made famous by The Beatles.
Offers Offers is a 2005 Dutch television film directed by Dana Nechushtan and starring Maryam Hassouni and Jacob Derwig. The thriller film is a personal drama about suicide bombers and counter-terrorism in Western Europe.
Offerton Estate The Offerton Estate is an estate and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester, England, situated to the south-east of Stockport town centre. The parish boundaries exclude the area of Offerton Green, further to the east.
Offertorium (Gubaidulina) Offertorium (Russian Жертвоприношение) is a concerto for violin and orchestra composed by Sofia Gubaidulina in 1980 and revised in 1982 and 1986. It was dedicated to Gidon Kremer, who in touring with it around the world brought Gubaidulina to international attention.
Offchurch Bury Offchurch Bury is a manor house located one mile to the north west of the village of Offchurch, Warwickshire, England. It was originally built in the 17th century, but most of the current house dates from the 19th century.
Office An office is a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organisation with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term office may refer to business-related tasks.
Office (band) Office is a Chicago based rock band whose song, "Wound Up", has recently been featured as the Single of the Week on the iTunes Music Store. Their latest, self-released album, Q&A, was issued in 2005.
Office action An office action, in United States trademark law, is the name given to the rejection of an application to register a trademark issued by an examiner for the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Typically, an office action will comprise one or both of two elements.
Office Assistant The Office Assistant is a feature included in Microsoft Office 97 and subsequent versions until Office 2007. It has been dubbed "Clippit" or "Clippy" after its default animated paperclip representation.
Office Automation Office automation refers to the varied computer machinery and software used to digitally create, collect, store, manipulate, and relay office information needed for accomplishing basic tasks and goals. Raw data storage, electronic transfer, and the management of electronic business information comprise the basic activities of an office automation system.
Office classification Office classification numbers were classifications assigned to telephone company offices before the breakup of AT&T in 1984. They were applied in the 1950s as part of organizing the system of Direct Distance Dialing (DDD).
Office Controller The Office Controller was an architectural concept of the early to mid-1980s. The concept was used by PABX manufacturers as the basis of families of products in which the PBX would supply data connectivity and applications along with its traditional voice services.
Office Create Office Create is a Japanese developer of console games. Most of their games were unreleased outside of Japan and received no particular critical or commercial attention - a notable exception to this is Cooking Mama for the Nintendo DS.
Office etiquette Office etiquette is the set of written and unwritten rules of conduct that make an office run smoothly. Office etiquette is different from business etiquette in that office etiquette usually applies to interacting with coworkers whereas business etiquette is for interacting with external contacts such as customers and suppliers.
Office for Emergency Management The Office for Emergency Management (OEM) was an office within the Executive Office of the United States President. It was established by administrative order, May 25, 1940, in accordance with EO 8248, September 8, 1939.
Office for Fair Access The Office for Fair Access is a non-departmental public body responsible for ensuring that any university or higher education institution in England which plans to charge variable tuition fees from the academic year 2006/7 has in place an acceptable plan to promote equitable access among its undergraduate applicants and those considering applying. The first Director, appointed in 2004, is Sir Martin Harris.
Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (Trade Marks and Designs), or OHIM (Spanish: OAMI or Oficina de Armonizacion del Mercado Interior, German: HABM or Harmonisierungsamt für den Binnenmarkt, French: OHMI or Office de l'Harmonisation dans le Marché Intérieur, Italian: UAMI or Ufficio per l'Armonizzazione nel Mercato Interno) is the trademark and industrial designs registry for the internal market of the European Union. It is based in Alicante, Spain, and its president is Wubbo de Boer.
Office for National Statistics The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the United Kingdom government executive agency charged with the collection and publication of statistics related to the economy, population and society of the United Kingdom at national and local levels. For historical reasons, it incorporates the General Register Office so is also responsible for the registration of births, deaths and marriages in England and Wales.
Office for Special Assignments Office for Special Assignments (in Swedish: Kontoret för Särskild Inhämtning, or KSI) is a part of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service and also one of the most secret parts of the Swedish Armed Forces. KSI was formerly called IB (Information Bureau, in Swedish Informationsbyrån), and SSI (Section for Special Assignments, Sektionen för Särskild Inhämtning)
Office for Standards in Education The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) is a non-ministerial government department, established in 1993 under the Education (Schools) Act 1992. It is responsible for inspecting the standards of independent and state schools, local education authorities, child day care and childminding in England; it also monitors the work of the Independent Schools Inspectorate.
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is a United Nations organisation that was formed in December 1991 from General Assembly Resolution 46/182. The resolution was designed to strengthen the UN response to complex emergencies and natural disasters by creating the Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA), and replacing the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator, which had been formed in 1972.
Office for the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism Police of the Czech Republic The Office of the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism (, abbrev. ĂšDV) is the Czech police subdivision which investigates the criminal acts from the period 1948-1989 which were unsolvable for political reasons during the Czechoslovak communist regime.
Office Furniture Dealers Alliance The Office Furniture Dealers Alliance (OFDA) is a division of the Independent Office Products and Furniture Dealers Association (IOPFDA), a trade association for resellers of office furniture and office products. It is based in Arlington, Virginia.
Office Genuine Advantage Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) is a program currently (as of 2006-05-03) being piloted by Microsoft similar to Windows Genuine Advantage in that it requires users of the Microsoft Office software to validate their copy of Microsoft Office.
Office hoteling Office hoteling (or often just hoteling) is a modern office paradigm where office workers don't have their own offices, cubicles, or even desks, and instead they have to reserve whatever space or resources they think they will need ahead of time. Office hoteling was conceived in 1994 by Ernst & Young, and became fashionable around 1996 to 1997.
Office international des épizooties The Office international des épizooties (OIÉ, French for "International Epizootic Office"), now known as the World Organisation for Animal Health (Organisation mondiale de la santé animale in French), is an international intergovernmental organisation founded in 1924. In May 2004, the OIÉ had 167 member countries.
Office international Nansen pour les réfugiés The Office International Nansen pour les Réfugiés, was an organization of the League of Nations, which was internationally in charge of refugees from war areas from 1930 to 1939. It received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1938.
Office lady An office lady, often abbreviated OL (Japanese: オーエル Ōeru), is a female office worker in Japan who performs generally white collar (or, some would say, pink collar) tasks such as serving tea and secretarial or clerical work. Like many unmarried Japanese, OLs often live with their parents into the adulthood years.
Office manager An office manager shall be an employee charged with the general administrative responsibilities of any given office of a corporation. At the least this means responsibility for all paperwork, including its filing and retention over time, and the supervision of the staff doing it.
Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales The Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aerospatiales ("National Office of Aerospatial Studies and Research", ONERA) is a French national research institution dedicated to the study of aerospace problems (flow mechanics, materials and structures, information processing, physics). It owns large research equipments such as wind tunnels.
Office National des Transports (Congo) The Office National des Transports (ONATRA) (in English, National Transport Agency) is a publicly owned company, based in Kinshasa, which operates railways, ports and river transport in the north and west of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse The Office of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse at the American Medical Association (AMA) was established by the temperance-oriented Robert Wood Johnson Foundation with an initial grant of $5 million, followed by more substantial funding.
Office of Australian War Graves The Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG) is a branch within the Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs and was formed on January 1 1975. The OAWG acts as Australian agent for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC).
Office of Civilian Defense Office of Civilian Defense was a United States federal emergency war agency set up May 20, 1941 by Executive Order 8757 to co-ordinate state and federal measures for protection of civilians in case of war emergency. Its two branches supervised protective functions such as blackouts and special fire protection and "war service" functions such as child care, health, housing, and transportation.
Office of Commercial Space Transportation The Office of Commercial Space Transportation is a division of the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that approves any commercial rocket launch operations—that is, any launches that are not classified as model, amateur, or "by and for the government." The office also regulates launch sites, publishes quarterly launch forecasts, and holds annual conferences with the space launch industry.
Office of Community Planning and Development The Community Planning and Development agency within the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administers the grant programs that help communities plan and finance their growth and development, increase their capacity to govern, and provide shelter and services for homeless people. HUD is a national program, but HUD provides funding directly to larger cities and counties, and for smaller cities and counties, generally to state government.
Office of eDiplomacy The Office of eDiplomacy acts an applied technology think tank for the United States Department of State. As part of the Bureau of Information Resource Management, eDiplomacy serves as a liaison between Department of State IT specialists and the end user.
Office of Economic Opportunity The Office of Economic Opportunity was the agency responsible for administering most of the War on Poverty programs created as part of United States President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society legislative agenda.
Office of Emergency Management An Office of Emergency Management (OEM) is an agency at the local, state or national level that holds responsibility of comprehensively planning for and responding to all manner of disasters, whether man-made or natural. An OEM may also be requested to provide consequence management for large special events such as major gatherings, visiting dignitaries et al.
Office of Fair Trading The Office of Fair Trading or OFT is a UK statutory body established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforces both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the UK's economic regulator. The OFT's goal is to make markets work well for consumers, ensuring vigorous competition between fair dealing businesses and prohibiting unfair practices such as rogue trading, scams and cartels.
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight The Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) is an agency within the Department of Housing and Urban Development. It is charged with ensuring the capital adequacy and financial safety and soundness of two government sponsored enterprises -- the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac).
Office of Film and Literature Classification (Australia) The Office of Film and Literature Classification is a statutory censorship and classification body which provides day to day administrative support for the Classification Board which classified films, video games and publications in Australia, and the Classification Review Board which reviews films, computer games and publications when a valid application has been made.
Office of Film and Literature Classification (New Zealand) The Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) is the government agency in New Zealand that is responsible for classification of all films, videos, publications, and some video games in New Zealand. It was created by the Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993 (FVPC Act) and is an independent Crown Entity in terms of the Crown Entities Act 2004.
Office of Gas and Electricity Markets The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), working for the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority (GEMA), is the government regulator for the electricity and downstream natural gas markets in Great Britain. It was formed by the merger of the Office of Electricity Regulation (OFFER) and Office of Gas Supply (Ofgas).
Office of Hawaiian Affairs The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, also popularly known by its acronym OHA, is a semi-autonomous entity of the State of Hawaii charged with the administration of 1.8 million acres (7,300 km²) of royal land held in trust for the benefit of native Hawaiians.
Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination The Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination (OIPC) is part of the Australian Government Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs from 24 January 2006. The Minister for the OIPC is Mal Brough.
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), is an office of the United States Government that Congress established in the 1980 Paperwork Reduction Act. OIRA is located within the Office of Management and Budget, which is an agency within the Executive Office of the President.
Office of Infrastructure and Logistics (European Commission) The Office of Infrastructure and Logistics is a Directorate-General of the European Commission. The Office for Infrastructure and Logistics, Brussels (OIB) and the Office of Infrastructure and Logistics, Luxembourg (OIL) were created according to a Commission decision of November 6, 2002
Office of Insular Affairs The Office of Insular Affairs is a unit of the United States Department of the Interior that oversees federal administration of several United States possessions. It is the successor to the Bureau of Insular Affairs of the War Department, which administered certain territories from 1902 to 1939, and the Office of Territorial Affairs (formerly the Division of Territories and Island Possessions and then the Office of Territories) in the Interior Department, which was responsible for certain territories from the 1930's to the 1990's.
Office of Intelligence The Office of Intelligence, is an office of the United States Department of Energy, which meets the department's intelligence requirements, providing information to the Secretary of Energy and senior policy makers. As an Intelligence Community, it also provides the other intelligence agencies with technical analysis of foreign intelligence.
Office of Intelligence and Analysis The Office of Intelligence and Analysis is a part of the United States Department of the Treasury and is responsible for the receipt, analysis, collation, and dissemination of foreign intelligence and foreign counterintelligence information related to the operation and responsibilities of the Department of the Treasury.
Office of International Treasury Control The Office of International Treasury Control (OITC) is a controversial entity which claims to be associated with the United Nations and the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. Its high-profile interventions in local economic affairs have attracted public controversy in Ecuador, Fiji and the United Kingdom.
Office of Justice Programs The Office of Justice Programs (or OJP) is the branch of the United States Department of Justice that focuses on crime prevention through research and technology development, assistance to state and local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies through grants, and assistance to crime victims.
Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare is an agency of the United States National Institutes of Health that enforces and sets guidelines for animal testing and research. The purpose of the agency is to make sure that all testing on vertebrates is done with the intent of finding a direct result from the test and that the animals' quality of life is considered.
Office of Management and Budget The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP) and is an important conduit by which the White House oversees the activities of federal agencies. OMB is tasked with giving expert advice to senior White House officials on a range of topics relating to federal policy, management, legislative, regulatory, and budgetary issues.
Office of Manpower Economics The Office of Manpower Economics is a non-statutory body set up to provide an independent Secretariat for each of the six Pay Review Bodies and the Police Negotiating Board and Police Advisory Board for England & Wales. It is funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Office of Military Commissions The Office of Military Commissions was established in February 2004 to administer the Guantanamo military commissions President Bush wanted to try suspected terrorists held in the American prison in the US Naval base at Guantanamo Bay.
Office of National Drug Control Policy The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a component of the Executive Office of the President of the United States, was established in 1988 by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act. Its stated goal is to establish policies, priorities, and objectives to eradicate illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences in the U.
Office of Naval Intelligence (Halo) The Office of Naval Intelligence, more commonly known by its abbreviation, ONI, is a Naval intelligence agency of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC), a division of the United Earth Space Corps (UESC). It is a major story element of the Halo universe.
Office of Ocean Exploration In the United States the Office of Ocean Exploration (OE) is a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) run under the auspices of the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR).

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