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Record 1 2024-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
CONT

The benefits of this approach rest on the ability of the client—with the help of the therapist—to reject dysfunctional thoughts and supplant them with adaptive cognitions. If the client is unable to generate compelling alternatives to dysfunctional thoughts, the self monitoring exercise may backfire by promoting unproductive rumination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
CONT

Mais qu'est-ce qu'on entend par pensées dysfonctionnelles? On signifie par là que ces pensées sont soit irréalistes, soit inadaptées ou les deux à la fois.

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Taxation
OBS

Tax on Unproductive Use of Canadian Housing by Foreign Non-resident Owners : tax announced in the 2021 federal budget.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiscalité
OBS

Taxe sur l'utilisation improductive des logements au Canada par des propriétaires étrangers non-résidents : taxe annoncée dans le budget fédéral de 2021.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistema tributario
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Record 3 2023-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roads
  • Road Networks
DEF

[A] thoroughfare that is a mix between a street and a road.

CONT

"Stroad" is a word [that explains] those dangerous, multi-laned thoroughfares you encounter in nearly every city, town and suburb in America. They’re what happens when a street — a place where people interact with businesses and residences and wealth is produced — gets combined with a road — a high-speed route between productive places. They are enormously expensive to build and, ultimately, financially unproductive. They’re also very dangerous.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Voies de circulation
  • Réseaux routiers

Spanish

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Record 4 2023-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Commercial Fishing
CONT

... a variation in catches [was noted] and progressively better catches on later cruises. Although most of the trawl hauls were made when the echo sounder showed "fish signs" near the bottom, a few midwater hauls were made when the sounder indicated fish schools at mid depths, but these hauls were invariably unproductive. Furthermore, because near-bottom trawling over the sea mounts was a new operation for the ship's officers, crew, and... scientists,... sufficient opportunity to become familiar with the net in the limited time available on each cruise [was needed].

Key term(s)
  • near bottom trawling

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 5 2022-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
  • Production (Economics)
  • Productivity and Profitability
CONT

... GDP [gross domestic product] growth does not distinguish between productive activity and non-productive activity. This is true in all economies, but most economies have two mechanisms, hard budget constraints and a mark-to-market process, that prevent non-productive activity from becoming a substantial share of all economic activity included in the GDP calculations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
  • Production (Économie)
  • Productivité et rentabilité

Spanish

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Record 6 2021-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Viticulture
  • Winemaking
CONT

Complantation is used to replace [vines] that are missing or unproductive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Viticulture
  • Industrie vinicole
CONT

La complantation est une technique de renouvellement du vignoble qui consiste à remplacer un pied de vigne malade ou mort par un jeune plant [...] De ce fait, dans une même parcelle, les ceps d'origine vont cohabiter avec les petits derniers fraîchement plantés.

Spanish

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Record 7 2021-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Symptoms (Medicine)
  • Respiratory System
DEF

A cough with no expectoration.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Symptômes (Médecine)
  • Appareil respiratoire
DEF

Toux sans expectorations.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Síntomas (Medicina)
  • Aparato respiratorio
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Record 8 2019-12-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
CONT

In narrative mediation, the mediator's task is to assist people to overcome the divisiveness of a conflict by working with the stories in which the conflict is embedded rather than pursuing an objective reality. They assist parties to remove the constraints of unproductive stories that constrain and keep them in conflict and to develop new ones.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Modes substitutifs de résolution des différends
OBS

médiation par la narration : désignation normalisée par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 9 2017-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)
  • Corporate Management (General)
DEF

An... organization emphasizing teamwork, flattening of hierarchies, multiskilling, improved vertical and horizontal coordination, elimination of unnecessary processes and unproductive resources, and continuous performance improvement through workers’ participation.

Key term(s)
  • lean organisation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
  • Gestion de l'entreprise (Généralités)
CONT

L’organisation allégée fait référence au modèle japonais de «lean production», donc au contrôle des coûts, à la qualité et à la rationalisation des processus. Elle est caractérisée par de la flexibilité interne et le contrôle.

OBS

organisation lean : Bien qu'étant emprunté de l'anglais, le terme «lean» semble passé dans l'usage.

Spanish

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Record 10 2017-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National and International Economics
OBS

unproductive industry : term extracted from the “Glossaire de l'économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie nationale et internationale
OBS

secteur non producteur; branche non productrice : termes extraits du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduits avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 11 2016-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Plant Biology
CONT

Some of the factors contributing to deterioration are impurity, too high or too low moisture content, immature and unfilled grain, cracked kernel, chalky grain, and red rice and other impurities.

CONT

During harvest, all essential agronomic data were gathered-including average panicle length and its corresponding number of grain, average number of filled and unfilled grain, average number of productive and unproductive tillers, and maturity from date of transplanting to harvesting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Biologie végétale
OBS

grain vide : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 12 2011-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The act of sealing a well that is known to be unproductive and is to be abandoned.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Fermeture d'un puits sec destiné à être abandonné.

Spanish

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Record 13 2010-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
  • Forestry Operations
CONT

Another consideration is that unproductive forest lands may contain a higher proportion of submerchantable or noncommercial species, which make such lands more attractive to harvest for biomass than volume.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Arbres trop petits pour faire du bois marchand mais qui peuvent être transformés en copeaux pour la biomasse.

CONT

Les essences marchandes secondaires, bien que trop petites pour faire du bois marchand peuvent être transformées pour produire de l'énergie.

OBS

Équivalent confirmé par le Centre de recherches forestières des Laurentides, à Sainte-Foy.

Spanish

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Record 14 2008-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Animal Feed (Agric.)
CONT

Salmon meal is manufactured out of salmonids and is a full value protein source for feed stuffs manufacture for unproductive animals. The product is rich in lysine, methionine, threonine, cystine.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Alimentation des animaux (Agric.)
CONT

La farine de saumon est produite à partir de tissus séchés et broyés de poissons dont les huiles ont été extraites. [...] Analyse typique: [...] Méthionine 2,14 % ; cystine 1,14 % ; lysine 5,38 % ; thréonine 3,28 % [...]

Spanish

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Record 15 2007-05-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Diseases
  • Culture of Fruit Trees
CONT

Peach X-Disease. On peach and chokecherry, sometimes cherry in the northern United States.... Peach trees appear normal in spring for 6 or 7 weeks after growth starts, then foliage shows a diffused yellow and red discoloration with a longitudinal upward curling of leaf edges.... Defoliation starts by mid-summer. Fruits shrivel and drop or ripen prematurely. Seed do not develop. Weakened trees are killed by low temperatures or remain unproductive.... Natural infection is apparently from chokecherry to peach(not peach to peach or peach to chokecherry) by a leaf-hopper(Colladonus clitellarius).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies des plantes
  • Arboriculture fruitière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Enfermedades de las plantas
  • Fruticultura
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Record 16 2006-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Psychoses

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Psychoses

Spanish

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Record 17 2006-08-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Investment
DEF

An asset that does not produce income.

OBS

Consists of vault cash, cash items in the process collection, unposted debits, noninterest-bearing balances.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Investissements et placements
DEF

Actif qui, en raison de sa nature ou des circonstances, ne produit aucun rendement, par exemple l'argent liquide conservé en caisse ou les dépôts bancaires sans intérêt.

Spanish

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Record 18 2005-04-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metals Mining
  • Economic Geology
DEF

A ... lode ... that is barren of ore minerals or of geologic indications of ore or that contains very-low grade ore.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines métalliques
  • Géologie économique
DEF

Filon ne contenant pas de minerai exploitable.

CONT

[...] on distingue [...], sur le plan économique, des filons minéralisés (qui contiennent du minerai) des filons stériles.

CONT

Il existe des filons stériles de quartz, granite, pegmatite, aplite, basalte, andésite, etc.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Minas metálicas
  • Geología económica
CONT

En minería se benefician los filones mineralizados (que contienen mineral útil) por oposición a los filones estériles, que carecen de interés.

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Record 19 2004-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
CONT

idle : Unused, unoccupied, unproductive, or unemployed. Examples include idle capital, idle capacity, or an idle worker.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
CONT

Selon qu'il existe ou non des capitaux oisifs, la technique [de la détaxation] différera. Dans le premier cas, le problème est de les amener à s'investir, dans le second, de susciter leur formation ou leur venue. Dans la première hypothèse, les détenteurs doivent donc être poussés à renoncer à leurs liquidités. Il s'agit d'accroître l'intérêt, la rentabilité des investissements.

Key term(s)
  • capital inactif
  • capitaux oisifs
  • capitaux inactifs

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
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Record 20 2004-07-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Language (General)
  • Lexicology, Lexicography, Terminology
CONT

Faulty parallelism occurs when parts of a sentence that are either in balance or part of a series are not presented with the same (or parallel) grammatical structure.

CONT

Parallelism refers to the expression of balanced ideas in balanced grammatical forms. Thus single words should be balanced with single words, phrases with phrases, and clauses with clauses. Faulty parallelism occurs when ideas of equal weight fail to be expressed in grammatical forms of equal weight.

OBS

Wrong : In our society, the elderly feel alienated, because they are confined in retirement homes, their unattractive representation in the media, and the capitalist economy deems them unproductive.(The three items in the dependent clause, which starts with because, should be in parallel grammatical form.) Corrected : In our society, the elderly feel alienated, because they are confined in retirement homes, they are represented unfavourably in the media, and they are deemed unproductive by the capitalist economy.(The three items now all share the same grammatical form of the clause.)

OBS

Examples: 1. He likes to listen to music, to watch movies, and going swimming. 2. She understood how to change the oil and replacing the air filter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique (Généralités)
  • Lexicologie, lexicographie et terminologie

Spanish

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Record 21 2001-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
  • Corporate Management (General)
  • Productivity and Profitability
DEF

Sale or liquidation of unproductive assets, total depreciation of the funds of failed commercial ventures or projects, calling in of bad debts and the acknowledgement of depreciation in shares portfolios are some of the measures that can be taken to generate funds, adjust accountable values to market values and in general improve the situation of a company.

OBS

stabilizing: term and definition reproduced from the CAPITAL Business Dictionary with the permission of LID Editorial Empresarial.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise
  • Gestion de l'entreprise (Généralités)
  • Productivité et rentabilité
DEF

Vente ou liquidation d'actifs improductifs, amortissement total de fonds de commerce et projets ratés, exécution de crédits retardataires ou reconnaissance de moins-values en portefeuille de valeurs sont quelques-unes des mesures qui sont adoptées dans l'objectif de générer de la trésorerie, d'adapter les valeurs comptables à celles du marché et, en général, d'améliorer la situation d'une entreprise.

OBS

assainissement : terme et définition extraits du CAPITAL Business Dictionary et reproduits avec l'autorisation de LID Editorial Empresarial.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía empresarial
  • Gestión de la empresa (Generalidades)
  • Productividad y rentabilidad
DEF

Venta o liquidación de activos improductivos, amortización total de fondos de comercio y proyectos fracasados, ejecución de créditos morosos o reconocimiento de minusvalías en cartera de valores son algunas de las medidas que se toman con el objeto de generar tesorería, ajustar los valores contables a los de mercado y, en general, mejorar la situación de una empresa.

OBS

saneamiento: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 22 2001-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A bridge plug or cement plug placed near the bottom of the hole to shut off a depleted, water-producing, or unproductive zone.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)

Spanish

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Record 23 1998-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Finanzas
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Record 24 1998-03-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
CONT

Unproductive boring.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Sondage et forage miniers
CONT

Sondage improductif.

Spanish

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Record 25 1998-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)
CONT

Only seven years after the collapse of the Soviet model, the debate on capitalism is intensifying while at the same time turning acrimonious, simplistic and increasingly unproductive.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)
CONT

Sept ans seulement après l'effondrement du modèle soviétique, le débat sur le capitalisme s'intensifie tout en prenant un tour acerbe, simpliste et de plus en plus stérile.

Spanish

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Record 26 1995-01-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

Land that is incapable of producing a merchantable stand within a reasonable length of time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture
  • Exploitation forestière
CONT

sont classifiés comme terrains forestiers improductifs tous terrains forestiers couvrant plus de 4 acres, dont le rendement est inférieur à 400 pieds cubes à l'acre, pour une révolution de 120 ans.

Spanish

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Record 27 1994-09-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Husbandry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des animaux
OBS

«Pensionnaire» s'emploie aussi comme adjectif, par exemple truie pensionnaire (c'est-à-dire non productive).

Spanish

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Record 28 1994-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Heritage
CONT

The territory of the Western Shoshoni included central and western Idaho, northwestern Utah, central and northeastern Nevada, and Death Valley and Panamint Valley of California, largely barren and unproductive areas. They were sometimes referred to as "Diggers, "from their habit of digging plant roots with a stick as an important means of subsistence. Another name applied was Shoshoko, meaning "walkers", to distinguish them from the horse-owning Shoshoni.

OBS

Digger: Said by Powell to be the English translation of Nuanuints, the name of a small tribe near St George, s.w. Utah,. It was the only Paiute tribe practising agriculture, hence the original signification of the name, "digger". In time the name was applied to every tribe known to use roots extensively for food and hence to be "diggers." It thus included very many of the tribes of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona, tribes speaking widely different languages and embracing perhaps a dozen distinct linguistic stocks. As the root-eaters were supposed to represent a low type of Indian, the term speedily became one of opprobrium [pejorative].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Patrimoine
OBS

Il n'y a pas de traduction officielle pour «Digger» parce qu'il s'agit d'une tribu qui n'aurait jamais eu affaires avec les explorateurs francophones. Les peuples de cette tribu résident pour la plupart dans les États de Nevada et d'Utah dans le sud-ouest des États-Unis. Ils parlent une langue d'origine Uto-Aztèque, langue qui a plus d'affinité avec les autochtones du Mexique qu'avec ceux des Plaines canadiennes. Il existe pourtant un nom français pour désigner la division amérindienne à laquelle les «Diggers» appartiennent : Shoshones de l'Ouest - équivalent le plus proche, quoique imprécis. Au besoin, on peut toujours utiliser le terme anglais en expliquant en bas de page l'étymologie du terme «digger».

Spanish

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Record 29 1992-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Animal Husbandry
OBS

e. g. of old unproductive, or diseased livestock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Élevage des animaux
OBS

du bétail, p. ex. pour cause de vente, maladie, mortalité, abattage.

Spanish

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Record 30 1991-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Management Operations (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de la gestion (Généralités)
OBS

Livre blanc sur FP 2000.

Spanish

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Record 31 1991-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Toponymy
DEF

Expanse of sparsely vegetated land, generally treeless.

CONT

Freeman Barren, N.B.

CONT

Bateau Barrens, Nfld.

OBS

Usually unproductive area, either rugged upland or flat wet terrain. Used in Nfld., N. B., and N. S.

OBS

Terminology validated by the Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (CPCGN) within the scope of its glossary (BT-176) which is the first authoritative publication on generics in use in Canada.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toponymie

Spanish

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Record 32 1989-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
DEF

Avance où le recouvrement total du capital et des intérêts impayés devient douteux.

Spanish

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Record 33 1989-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Banking
CONT

There can be no hope of sound economic development and efficient allocation of funds if certain institutions are granted fiscal privileges that have been refused to banks, or if some institutions are allowed to participate in the payment system on an equal footing with banks, but without having to bear the cost of maintaining unproductive reserves with the central bank.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Banque
CONT

On ne peut espérer un développement économique harmonieux et une allocation efficace des fonds en donnant à certaines institutions des privilèges fiscaux que l'on refuse aux banques ou en permettant à des institutions de participer au système des paiements au même titre que les banques, mais sans qu'elles aient à supporter, comme les banques, le coût des réserves stériles à la banque centrale.

Spanish

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Record 34 1988-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Loans

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prêts et emprunts
DEF

Prêt où le recouvrement total du capital et les intérêts impayés devient douteux.

OBS

Terme basé sur «avance non productif d'intérêt» trouvé dans BT-185, 1988.

Spanish

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Record 35 1982-09-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Productivity and Profitability

French

Domaine(s)
  • Productivité et rentabilité

Spanish

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Record 36 1981-10-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois

Spanish

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Record 37 1981-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation

Spanish

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Record 38 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

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Record 39 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mineralogy

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minéralogie

Spanish

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Record 40 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction (Généralités)

Spanish

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Record 41 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière

Spanish

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Record 42 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Accounting

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comptabilité

Spanish

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