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  2. Closeout (sale) - Wikipedia

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    Closeout (sale) A closeout or clearance sale ( closing down sale in the United Kingdom [1]) is a discount sale of inventory either by retail or wholesale. It may be that a product is not selling well, or that the retailer is closing because of relocation, a fire (a fire sale ), over-ordering, or especially because of bankruptcy. [2]

  3. English literature - Wikipedia

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    The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066.

  4. Escapist fiction - Wikipedia

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    Literature. Escapist fiction is fiction that provides escapism by immersing readers in a "new world" created by the author. [1] This "new world" aims to compensate for the arbitrariness and the unpredictability of the real one. [1] Typically, an author of escapist fiction offers structure, rationality and resolution to real world problems ...

  5. Market clearing - Wikipedia

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    The market clears when the price reaches a point where demand and supply are in equilibrium, enabling individuals to buy or sell whatever they desire at that cost. When supply and demand are equal, a market clearing takes place. The market must experience a shortage or a surplus to reach this state. A shortage indicates that buyers are ...

  6. Literary realism - Wikipedia

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    Literary realism. Literary realism is a literary genre, part of the broader realism in arts, that attempts to represent subject-matter truthfully, avoiding speculative fiction and supernatural elements. It originated with the realist art movement that began with mid- nineteenth-century French literature ( Stendhal) and Russian literature ...

  7. Highland Clearances - Wikipedia

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    Definition. The definition of "clearance" (as it relates to the Highland Clearances) is debatable. The term was not in common use during much of the clearances; landowners, their factors and other estate staff tended, until the 1840s, to use the word "removal" to refer to the eviction of tenants. However, by 1843, "clearance" had become a ...

  8. Stock clearance - Wikipedia

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    Stock clearance. is an activity by a company where ownership of products and materials moves on to another legal entity. These products and materials in stock clearance will not form the basis of a company's key activities. As such, they are often end-of-line, surplus, returned, or bankrupt. A company will often pursue a non-profit-making ...

  9. List of U.S. security clearance terms - Wikipedia

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    Investigations. The following investigations are used in clearance determinations: [12] ANACI (Access National Agency Check with Inquiries) – Initial Confidential, Secret, L, LX; only used for civilian employees. NACLC (National Agency Check with Law and Credit) – Initial Confidential, Secret, L, LX; reinvestigations.