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Materially affected

1 SCR 40. These words indicate that the result should not be judged by the mere increase or decrease in the total number of votes secured by the returned candidate but by proof of the fact that

Recession

Recession, a re-grant. A period charaterized by a sharp slowdown an economic activity declining employment and a decrease in investment and consumer spending, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.

Reduce

anyway in size, weight, amount, value, price etc., to diminish; to lower as in rank or position, to decrease. The word is wide enough to include punishment of stoppage of increments in future, Longmal v. Superintendent of

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operant conditioning

a time the animal comes to associate the reward or punishment with the act and will increase or decrease the frequency of performing that act

VerbarRallentando

Slackening a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force ritardando

Dearness allowance

on a sliding scale and provide for an increase on rise in the cost of living and a decrease on a fall in the cost of living. 1961 (2) LLJ 352 quoted, Hindustan Times v. Their Workmen,

Neo Malthusian

who hold to the Malthusianism doctrine that permanent betterment of the general standard of living is impossible without decrease of competition by limitation of the number of births

escalator clause

provides for an increase in wages to reflect a rise in the cost of living but prohibits a decrease to reflect a drop in the cost of living

abate

and during its pendency dies…the action does not "Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure Rule 43"] 2 : to decrease in amount or value [the legacies abated proportionately] NOTE: A problem arises in estate law when the amount

Maximum

a given case or the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease the highest point or degree opposed to minimum

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