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WPA

abbr.
Work Projects Administration
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WPA

(in the US) abbreviation for
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Work Projects Administration or Works Progress Administration
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WPA

Work Projects Administration; (earlier) Works Progress Administration.
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WPA

The WPA, or Works Project Administration, was started by the U.S. Government in 1935 as a program for economic relief during the Depression years.
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She was nominated during her participation in the conference, as a leading fellow for the cultural adaption of CBT within the psychiatric therapy section in WPA.
'The WPA calls on the PPP to acknowledge that the game is over that its attempt at railroading the judicial process has been defeated.
The chief minister directed the WPA to proactively perform as it is the best platform to protect and redress the grievances of female victims of violence.
Michigan's Legislature recognized the problem and acted swiftly to pass the WPA, being MCLA 15.361.
However, trade in naturally-shed feathers is not a crime under the WPA.
Accordingly, the closing date of the sale has been extended to 13 November 2018 and WPA has an option for to exercise an additional extension until 31 January 2019.
Thanks to New Mexico Governor Clyde Tingley, a masterful politician who wended his way into Roosevelt's good graces, New Mexico became the recipient of a significant proportion of federal WPA funding that supported thousands of otherwise unemployed men and women.
"She will be presented to court in the ongoing defilement case immediately the court confirms the next hearing date," WPA principal public relations officer Calvine Oredi said on Sunday.
The WPA was founded in 1950 and currently has 138 member societies from 118 countries, representing more than 200000 psychiatrists.
In the Exhaustive CHAID, only 3 independent variables, NFB, WPA and CFB were found statistically.
The more I think about it, the more I'm beginning to understand my first two years as the new WPA as an exercise in managing the grief of the teachers in my first-year writing program.
The Wolf Performance Arms (WPA) upper arrived first.