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| Half
Duplex |
A term that refers to sending
a block of characters at a time, only in one direction.
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| Hard
Bargaining |
A term used to refer to adversarial,
competitive bargaining that assumes that the opponent is an enemy to be
defeated, rather than a partner to be worked with cooperatively. |
| Hard
Disk/Drive |
A storage medium that houses all
of the electronic information and software programs on your computer.
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| Hardware |
The electronic components, boards,
peripherals, and computer equipment that make up a computer system.
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| Headline |
The title of an article or press
release.
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| Health
and Safety |
Regulations concerning employee
health and wellbeing at the jobsite. In the United States, these regulations
are enforced by Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA).
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| Health
and Wellness Program |
Preventive educational programs
that can be informational and/or direct-service oriented. |
| Health
Promotion |
Setting better health as a goal,
usually through prevention rather than treatment and managing the process
of making our communities, places of work, and homes healthier places.
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| Healthier
Communities Movement |
Over 2,000 communities both national
and international that have determined what it takes to create community
health.
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| Hearings |
Committee sessions for taking
testimony from witnesses. Committees will sometimes use their subpoena power
to summon reluctant witnesses. The vast majority of hearings are open to
the public.
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| Hertz
(Hz) |
A unit of measurement for electrical
vibration, one Hz is equal to one cycle per second, and replaces the earlier
term "cycle per second (cps)."
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| Heterosexism |
Prejudice and oppression against
gays and lesbians based on their sexual orientation. |
| Heuristics |
A method of analyzing outcome
through comparison to previously recognized patterns.
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| Hierarchy
of Needs |
Psychologist Abraham Maslow's
theory that human needs are arranged in an order or hierarchy based on their
importance. The need hierarchy includes physiological, safety, social/love
and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization needs.
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| High-Speed |
A common phrase used to mean very,
very, very fast.
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| Hijack |
When a member takes over another
member's bill in process, amends different language into it, and uses it
as their own vehicle-only the bill number remains the same as the original
bill
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| Historical
Cost |
An accounting principle requiring
all financial statement items to be based on original cost.
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| History
List |
A drop-down menu in a Web browser
containing logs of the latest document titles and URLs visited during the
last Web session.
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| Hit |
The most misused term in Net vocabulary,
a hit can refer to any one of a few different things. If you perform a search,
the results are called hits. If you load a Web page, you've hit the site.
Technically, a hit is a request made to the Web server. If you look at a
Web page that contains ten GIF files, one person visiting one page will
make 11 hits on the server: one for the page, and ten for the graphics on
the page.
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| Hold |
An informal practice by which
a Senator informs his or her floor leader that he or she does not wish a
particular bill or other measure to reach the floor for consideration. The
Majority Leader does not need to follow the Senator's wishes, but is on
notice that the opposing Senator may filibuster any motion to proceed to
consider the measure.
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| Hold-Harmless
Clause |
A provision added to legislation
to ensure that recipients of federal funds do not receive less in a future
year than they did in the current year if a new formula for allocating funds
authorized in the legislation would result in a reduction to the recipients.
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| Holding
Period |
The time during which an asset
is owned. The required holding period for the treatment of gain or loss
on the sale or exchange of almost every capital asset as long-term capital
gain or loss is "more than one year."
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| Home
Page |
A home page serves as the site's
introduction, starting point, and guide.
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| Honorarium |
Payment for recognition of professional
services.
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| Hooks |
Those elements of a persuasive
message that attract the attention and build the interest of target audience
members. |
| Hopper |
A box on the House clerk's desk
where members deposit bills and resolutions to have them introduced.
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| Horizontal
Merger |
A merger that occurs when organizations
with similar missions, goals or interests unite to form a new structure. |
| Host |
A computer that functions as the
beginning and end point of data transfers.
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| Host
Name |
The unique name by which a computer
is known on a network. It is used to identify the host in e-mail, Usenet
news, or other forms of electronic information interchange.
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| Hostile
Work Environment |
The situation in which offensive
conduct is so severe that it makes it almost impossible for the individual
to perform his or her job. The theory of hostile work environment is often
the foundation for a claim of sexual harassment, but can also refer to attitudes
and behaviors in addition to sexually offensive conduct. |
| Hoteling |
Flexible office practice used
to support mobile and remote workers. A pool of offices are set aside to
be reserved by employees who do not require an office space to be assigned
to them on a full-time basis.
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| Hour
Rule |
A provision in the rules of the
House that permits one hour of debate time for each member on amendments
debated in the House of Representatives sitting as the House. Therefore,
the House normally amends bills while sitting as the Committee of the Whole,
where the five-minute rule on amendments operates. |
| House
Calendar |
A listing for action by the House
of public bills reported by the House committees that do not directly or
indirectly appropriate money or raise revenue when favorably reported by
House committees.
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| Household
Level |
Removing all but one name per
household. |
| Housing/Mortgage
Assistance |
Includes services such as collaboration
and advocacy for home buyers, as well as special mortgage rates and down-payment
assistance for employees who are purchasing a home.
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| Hover |
The act of positioning your cursor
on top of a selection on your computer screen or on a Web page until a comment
or a new menu appears.
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| HTML |
Hypertext Markup Language. HTML
is a language that uses tags to structure text into headings, paragraphs,
lists, and links. It essentially tells a Web browser how to display text
and images. |
| HTML
- Hypertext Markup Language |
HTML files are text files that
contain formatting tags that control how information (text and graphics)
is displayed on the computer monitor also control how other audio and video
files are executed. In the past one had to use HTML tags to create Web pages.
Today, with the "What You See is What You Get" HTML editors (such as DreamWeaver
and FrontPage) the proper HTML is created automatically. |
| HTML
Email |
Email messages that include text
formatting and images, much like you would see on a typical Web site. |
| HTTP |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The
protocol used to transmit and receive all data over the World Wide Web.
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| Hub |
A piece of hardware is used to
network computers together (usually over an Ethernet connection). It serves
as a common wiring point so that information can flow through one central
location to any other computer on the network.
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| Huddle
Room |
A non-scheduable meeting space
for three to four people. This space may be used for brief meeting or can
be assigned for the length of a project. Usually utilized by those who are
housed in open workstations.
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| Human
Interest |
One type of feature about real
life drama.
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| Human
Resource Management |
Includes how the organization
treats and nourishes the development of volunteers, board members, and employees.
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| Hyperlink |
The easy-to-spot underlined words
or phrases you click in Web documents to jump to another screen or page.
Hyperlinks contain HTML-coded references that point to other Web pages,
which your browser then jumps to.
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| Hypermedia |
Hypermedia integrates text, images,
video, and sound into its documents.
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Glossary information provided by the Nonprofit Good Practice Guide, a project of the Philanthropic and Nonprofit Knowledge Management Initiative (PNKM) at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership.
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