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In typography, kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letterforms while tracking (letter-spacing) adjusts spacing uniformly over a range of characters. [ 1] In a well kerned font, the two-dimensional ...
Availability heuristic. The availability heuristic, also known as availability bias, is a mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision. This heuristic, operating on the notion that, if something can be recalled, it must be important, or at ...
OpenTheBooks.com is an American nonprofit organization based in the Chicago suburb of Burr Ridge, Illinois.It describes itself as a transparency group devoted to posting online all the disclosed spending of every level of government across the United States. [1]
The report also revealed that in order to maintain the same buying power as in 2000, current beneficiaries would need an extra $516.70 per month. For context, the average retired worker collects ...
Analysis of more than 23,000 performance reviews shows that women at the top of their game are still put down as abrasive and opinionated—and it doesn't matter if their manager is male or female.
The good news is that inflation is dropping, with the average annual cost of living falling from 4.9% in April to 4% in May, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor. The bad ...
The alphabet agencies, or New Deal agencies, were the U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The earliest agencies were created to combat the Great Depression in the United States and were established during Roosevelt's first 100 days in office in 1933.
A compliment sandwich[ 1] praise sandwich, or feedback sandwich is a rhetorical technique to deliver criticism in a way that it is accepted by the criticized person. It is named after the metaphor of a sandwich since it has three parts: [ 2] Praise of the addressee. Expressing what the speaker dislikes about the person.