Category: C

In law, legal principles derived from usage and custom, or from court decisions affirming such usages and customs, or the acts of Parliament in force at the time of the American Revolution, as distinguished from law created by enactment of American legislation. Law which has been created by the courts, through decisions of judges, rather…

An infectious disease of which there are over 120 types of viruses as causative agents. The transmitted by direct or indirect contact with fluid discharges from an infected person. It is characterized by a sore throat, running nose, chills, mild fever, and muscular aches. The usually lasts from 3 to 5 days, but no autoinfection…

The duct formed by the union of the common hepatic ducts and the cystic duct and empties into the duodenum. A duct leading to the duodenum, formed of the hepatic and cystic ducts. The duct formed by the juncture of the cystic and hepatic ducts. The duct that carries bile and pancreatic juice to the…

A parliamentary device by which the entire membership of the legislative body (one house, in Congress) sits as a committee to consider legislation. It reports back its recommendations to the legislative body.    

A National Education Association committee established in 1893 to standardize high schools, Committee of Fifteen.  

A committee appointed in 1895 by the National Education Association that reversed the findings of the Committee of Ten.  

A member appointed to function as the parliamentarian and head of a standing or special committee in the consideration of matters assigned to such committee by the governing body or its leader.  

A task group that is charged with performing some type of specific activity or task. A committee appointed for some special purpose and which automatically dissolves upon the completion of its specific task. A group of people set up for a specific purpose: to consider or investigate a matter, to report on a matter, or…

A management guideline that advises managers to commit funds for planning only when they can anticipate, in the foreseeable future, a return on planning expenses as a result of long-range planning analysis.  

Commission’s first report released to President Richard M. Nixon in 1972. The report recommended wide-scale sex education, revised abortion policy, approval of the Equal Rights Amendment, and contraceptive supplies, information, and procedures available on demand. President Nixon rejected the report and its recommendations.