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Crossword 024
Vocabulary Building Blocks: (38 Across) boycott (Noun) 1. A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies. (Verb) 1. Refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with. 2. Refuse to use or to buy. Derived from Captain Charles Boycott, 1832-1897, an Irish landlord's agent who was the first victim when his tenants refused to work the lands and shunned him both economically and socially in protest to oppressive rents. Did You Know? (7 Down) The Toshiba Corporation developed the first one-megabit dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip in the world. The company, headquarted in Tokyo, was formed in 1939 from a merger of Shibaura Seisakusho, a heavy electrical equipment manufacturer, and Tokyo Denki, which produced consumer products. Toshiba was the first Japanese company to produce radar, fluorescent lamps, microwave ovens, broadcasting equipment, and digital computers, among other products. Printable
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