Distress Termination — A thinning of an employee base that takes place when a company s benefits plan has insufficient funds to cover the expenses associated with paying the employees earned benefits. This frequently occurs when a company can no longer stay in business … Investment dictionary
Voluntary Plan Termination — The discontinuance of a defined benefit plan by an employer. A voluntary plan termination may occur by the plan administrator only if all of the requirements for a standard termination or distress termination are followed. The U.S. Code of… … Investment dictionary
Employee Retirement Income Security Act — The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) (USStatute|93|406|88|829|1974|09|02) is an American federal statute that establishes minimum standards for pension plans in private industry and provides for extensive rules on the… … Wikipedia
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation — (United States) Agency overview Formed September 2, 1974 … Wikipedia
Mechanical ventilation — In architecture and climate control, mechanical or forced ventilation is the use of powered equipment, e.g. fans and blowers, to move air see ventilation (architecture). Mechanical ventilation Intervention … Wikipedia
international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… … Universalium
ABORTION — is defined as the artificial termination of a woman s pregnancy. In the Biblical Period A monetary penalty was imposed for causing abortion of a woman s fetus in the course of a quarrel, and the penalty of death if the woman s own death… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
USS America (CV-66) — The third USS America (CV 66), formerly CVA 66, was a Kitty Hawk class supercarrier of the United States Navy that served from 1965 to 1996.Construction and shakedownOriginally ordered as an Enterprise class nuclear carrier, the ballooning costs… … Wikipedia
pregnancy — /preg neuhn see/, n., pl. pregnancies. the state, condition, or quality of being pregnant. [1520 30; PREGN(ANT) + ANCY] * * * Process of human gestation that takes place in the female s body as a fetus develops, from fertilization to birth (see… … Universalium
Occupational health psychology — Psychology … Wikipedia
mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… … Universalium
