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environmental impact statement

A detailed analysis of the probable environmental consequences of proposed federal legislation, major federal actions, or large-scale construction making use of federal funds, likely to have significant effects on environmental quality; such a statement is required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. §4321 et seq.).
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Crum (A Coptic Dictionary [Oxford: Clarendon Press], 494a), who identifies parallels, including a strongly Faiyumicizing one using the form esi (Crum, 88b, at eise "hang").
(4.) On the significance of the dais eise in Homer, see Nagy 127-41 and Said.
Ich glaube, dass diss das Eigentum der seltnen Menschen ist, dass sie geben konnen, ohne zu empfangen, dass sie sich auch 'am Eise warmen' konnen.
Many studies have shown that intrinsic motivation has positive consequences for performance and persistence, whereas extrinsic motivation may have negative effects on intrinsic motivation (Deci & Ryan, 1985; Rigby, Deci, Patrick, & Ryan, 1991, see Eise nberger & Cameron, 1996 for a review).
Even if people do not regularly believe in a higher power, they often talk to one during the bargaining stage-please don't let this happen, let something eise happen.
The enormous rows with Hilary vanish, as do Ida Eise, Lois White, Johnny Weeks, Bessie Christie--the teachers at the Elam Art School who are of interest as part of the bohemian life in Auckland in the late 1930s as well as by virtue of being important New Zealand artists.
He has written works that include a trilogy about Friesland's seventeenth-century poet, Gysbert Japiks; a biographical novel about Friesland's eighteenth-century genius astronomer, Eise Eisenga; a novel about Friesland's capital city, Ljouwert; and now a novel about a Frisian island.
TWO HUNDRED thirteen years ago Eise Eisinga saw the solar system move on the ceiling of his living room.
Eise, president of TUV America Inc., joined SPE in 1975.
Hoewel Pretorius ook meld dat afwykings van hierdie eise nie noodwendig lei tot 'n waardeoordeel oor die fiksie nie, is dit duidelik uit die res van sy artikel dat hy tog meer positief oordeel oor romans wat digby hierdie eise hou (en nie die sin kan sien van fiksie wat nie daarby hou nie) en uitdruklik sy irritasie uitspreek met 'n roman soos Ingrid Winterbach se Niggie wat nie daarby hou nie.

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