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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | Payments (usually in cash but sometimes in commodity certificates) made directly to producers in conjunction with participation in commodity support or other programs. Under the FAIR Act of 1996, participating producers receive production flexibility contract payments, which replace deficiency payments. Also, producers receive direct payments under conservation reserve contracts. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: DIRECT PAYMENTS |
| Specialty definitions using "DIRECT PAYMENTS": Blue box policies ♦ Dairy Market Loss Assistance Program ♦ Farm income ♦ Green box policies ♦ Incentive payments ♦ Loan deficiency payments ♦ Small Hog Operation Payment. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Nigeria | Niger Delta indigenes, however, remain highly skeptical of government promises, and continue to seek direct payments from the oil companies. (references) |
Finland | Price support for arable crops, milk and beef is lowered by degrees, and losses to agriculture are compensated for through an increase in direct payments. (references) | |
Finland | The shift in the emphasis of the support measures from price support to direct payments follows the trend started by the reform of 1992. The objective is to prevent oversupplies, which are very costly. (references) | |
Political Economy | SPAIN | Import Restrictions: Under the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), Spanish farm incomes are protected by direct payments and guaranteed farm prices that are higher than world prices. (references) |
SWITZERLAND | The goal of the 1999 legislation is to reduce government regulation of the market while maintaining agricultural production at current levels through import protection and direct payments linked to environmental protection. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-m-n-p-r-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: predicaments. | |
-3 letters: departments, determinacy, interspaced, predicament, predynastic, remittances, sedimentary, tryptamines. | |
-4 letters: certainest, crepitated, crepitates, cysteamine, department, detriments, discrepant, dynamiters, dysenteric, emittances, escarpment, impedances, impetrated, impetrates, imprecated, imprecates, interacted, intercaste, intercepts, interspace, martensite, miscreated, mistreated, pedantries, pederastic, pedestrian, predicates, presidency, reinstated, remittance, repayments, spermaceti, straitened, tapestried, terminated, terminates, transected, trapnested, tryptamine, tympanites. | |
-5 letters: admitters, amnestied. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 52 45 43 54 50 41 59 4D 45 4E 54 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010010 01000101 01000011 01010100 00100000 01010000 01000001 01011001 01001101 01000101 01001110 01010100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I R E C T   P A Y M E N T S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0052 0045 0043 0054 0050 0041 0059 004D 0045 004E 0054 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38435239375425035594739485453 |
| 1. Crosswords 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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