The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which had the job of writing regulations to enforce the 1972 law, expanded the "waters of the United States" definition to include tributaries such as Rock Creek.

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For our purposes, the definition used by the United Nations in 1987 is as fair as any.

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It was the very first time that a binding instrument in the United Nations system contained a detailed definition of the term DISCRIMINATION .

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By definition its members are united in tragedy.

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First, the definition of basic education in the United States has evolved to the point where a high school diploma is now seen as the minimal level of education required for entrance into the work force.

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Another academic, Alberto Testa, agreed that differences existed in the definition of fascism, particularly in the United Kingdom and Italy.

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If you go by the traditional definition of two quarters of negative growth, the United States avoided entering a recession in the first quarter, but only because of high inventories.

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The United States had become majority urban as recently as 1920, and then only by the U.S. Census definition of urban as a settlement of more than 2, 500 persons.

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