General philosophy

General philosophy

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budget

Philosophy; General philosophy

A statement of a government's planned or expected financial position for a specified period of time (usually one year) based on estimates of the expenditures to be made by the government's main ...

Count-Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1707-1788) One of the greatest French scientists of the eighteenth century. He wrote a Natural History in 24 volumes which was an encyclopedia of the science of his time, including a "theory of the ...

Bund

Philosophy; General philosophy

The General Jewish Workers' Union of Lithuania, Poland and Russia was organized in 1897 at the inaugural congress the Jewish Social-Democratic groups in Vilna. It was an association mainly of ...

Sidney Percival Bunting

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1873-1936) Bunting was a founder member and principal architect of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). Bunting was born in London in 1873, the great grandson of Jabez Bunting, the Wesleyan ...

Sonia Bunting

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1922-2001) Born Sonia Isaacman in Johannesburg in 1922, she joined the Communist Party in 1942 and gave up her university studies to do full-time political work. After the banning of the Communist ...

bureaucracy

Philosophy; General philosophy

An organization (civil servants) characterized by hierarchical, centralized authority with clearly stated procedure for carrying out its tasks.

Thomas Francis Burgers

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1834-1881) President of the Transvaal (South Africa) Republic. He was educated for the Church at Ultrecht University but he was suspended for heresy when he began to practice in the Transvaal. He ...