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  • n  application of a skill learned in one situation to a different but similar situation
  • n  the accumulated and undivided profits of a corporation after provision has been made for dividends and reserves

  • This carry-over is critically small more than a million bales less than that for 1922.
  • Thus the carry-over from this year's crop should be small when the next crop is planted; and prices are expected in consequence to remain high.
  • Still, the concern is significant because some studies do suggest a carry-over effect between past CRP levels and future heart disease.

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