1. controlling interest ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares
  2. pleading in the alternative a pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine which facts the person intends to rely on
  3. electronic counter-countermeasures electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare
  4. electronic countermeasures electronic warfare undertaken to prevent or reduce an enemy's effective use of the electromagnetic spectrum
  5. eastern United States the region of the United States lying to the north of the Ohio River and to the east of the Mississippi River
  6. pass with flying colors succeed at easily
  7. southeastern United States the southeastern region of the United States
  8. necrotizing enterocolitis an acute inflammatory disease occurring in the intestines of premature infants; necrosis of intestinal tissue may follow
  9. western United States the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River
  10. southwestern United States the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado
  11. transmission control protocol/internet protocol a set of protocols (including TCP) developed for the internet in the 1970s to get data from one network device to another
  12. midwestern United States the north central region of the United States
  13. necrotizing enteritis enteritis characterized by bloody diarrhea and severe abdominal pain
  14. northeastern United States the northeastern region of the United States
  15. leave no stone unturned search thoroughly and exhaustively
  16. Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt German field marshal in World War II who directed the conquest of Poland and led the Ardennes counteroffensive (1875-1953)
  17. collector of internal revenue someone who collects taxes for the government
  18. classical conditioning conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether or not the conditioned response occurs until eventually the neutral stimulus comes to evoke the reflex
  19. object-oriented database a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition
  20. Corylus avellana grandis small nut-bearing tree much grown in Europe