- Industry: Printing & publishing
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McGraw Hill Financial, Inc. is an American publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, publishing, and business services.
A member of a series of saturated aliphatic hydrocarbons having the empirical formula C<sub>n</sub>H<sub>2n+2</sub>. Also known as paraffin; paraffinic hydrocarbon.
Industry:Chemistry
C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>CH<sub>2</sub>OH An alcohol that melts at 15.3_C, boils at 205.8_C, and is soluble in water and readily soluble in alcohol and ether; valued for the esters it forms with acetic, benzoic, and sebacic acids and used in the soap, perfume, and flavor industries. Also known as phenylmethanol.
Industry:Chemistry
A functionalist approach that proposes that modernization and development will gradually improve the lives of people in peripheral nations.
Industry:Sociology
The far-reaching process by which a society moves from traditional or less developed institutions to those characteristic of more developed societies.
Industry:Sociology
A subordinate group whose members have significantly less control or power over their own lives than the members of a dominant or majority group have over theirs.
Industry:Sociology
Sociological investigation that stresses study of small groups and often uses laboratory experimental studies.
Industry:Sociology
A densely populated area containing two or more cities and their surrounding suburbs.
Industry:Sociology
The process by which the principles of the fast-food restaurant have come to dominate certain sectors of society, both in the United States and throughout the world.
Industry:Sociology
