Supply-side economics Supply-side economics is a school of macroeconomic thought which emphasizes the "supply" part of supply and demand. The central concept of supply-side economics is Say's Law: "supply creates its own demand," the idea that one must sell before one can afford to buy. Therefore good economic policy encourages increased production, vice attempts to stimulate demand -- this is the fundamental dispute between classical, supply-side economics and Keynesian economics or demand side economics.
	Supporters In heraldry, supporters are figures placed on either side of the Shield and depicted holding it up. These figures may be real or imaginary animals, human figures, and in rare cases plants or inanimate objects. Often these can have local significance, such as the fisherman and the tin miner granted to Cornwall County Council, or an historical link, such as the lion of England and unicorn of Scotland on the two variations of the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom.
	Suppository A suppository is a medicine that is inserted either into the rectum, vagina or urethra where it melts. The alternative term for delivery of medicines via such routes, is as a pessary. Vaginal suppositories are used to treat gynaecology ailments, especially vaginal infections such as candidiasis, or as vaginal contraceptives.
	Suppressor A suppressor, also commonly known as a silencer, is a device attached to a firearm to reduce the amount of noise and flash generated by firing the weapon. It generally takes the form of a Cylinder-shaped Metal tube that is fitted into the barrel of the firearm, with various internal mechanisms to reduce the sound of firing by manipulating the escaping propellant gas, and sometimes by reducing the velocity of the bullet.
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	Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States is the supreme court in the United States and leads the judiciary separation of powers of the United States federal government. The Supreme Court consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with the "advice and consent" of the United States Senate.
	Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe is the central command of NATO military forces. It is located at Casteau north of the Belgium city of Mons. Initially SHAPE was headquarters of operational forces in the European theatre, but from 2003 SHAPE is the headquarters of Allied Command Operations controlling all allied operations worldwide.
	Surface In mathematics, specifically in topology, a surface is a two-dimensional manifold. The most familiar examples are those that arise as the boundaries of solid objects in ordinary three-dimensional Euclidean space, E3. On the other hand, there are also more exotic surfaces, that are so "contorted" that they cannot be embedding in three-dimensional space at all.
	Surface ship A surface ship is any type of navy ship that is confined to the surface of the sea. The term is primarily used to mean any modern vessel type that is not a submarine; although a "surface ship" may range in size from a cutter to an aircraft carrier, the weapons and tactics have some commonality, more so than for submerged vessels.
	Surface tension In physics, surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes that layer to behave as an elastic sheet. This effect allows insects to walk on water, and causes capillary action. Surface tension is caused by the attraction between the molecules of the liquid by various intermolecular forces.
	Surface-to-air missile A surface-to-air missile is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft. It is a type of anti-aircraft. Land-based SAMs can be deployed from fixed installations or mobile launchers. The smallest SAMs, developed by the Soviet Union, are capable of being carried and launched by a single person.
	Surfbird The Surfbird, Aphriza virgata, is a small stocky wader in the family Scolopacidae. This bird has a short dark bill, yellow legs and a black band at the end of the white rump. In breeding plumage, it has dark streaks on the brownish head and breast with dark spots on its white underparts; the upperparts are dark with rust colouring on the wings.
	Surfboard Surfboards were invented by the Hawaiians for riding breaking waves to the beach. See also surfing.
	Surfing Surfing is a Surface Water Sports that involves the participant being carried by a Ocean surface wave.
	Surge Surge is a citrus soft drink first introduced in Norway, under the name Urge, by the Coca-Cola Company to compete with Pepsi's Mountain Dew. However, while Mountain Dew is a yellow color, Surge is green in color. It became very popular in Norway. In 1997, Coca-Cola decided to start making it in USA under the name Surge, although in Denmark and Sweden, the name remained Urge.
	Surge protector A surge protector is an appliance designed to protect electricity from power surges and voltage spikes. Surge protectors attempt to regulate the voltage supplied to an electric device by either blocking or shorting to ground voltage above a safe threshold.
	Surgeon's knot The surgeon's knot is a simple modification to the reef knot, adding an extra twist when tying the first throw, thus adding friction which makes the knot more secure. This knot is named for the fact that it is commonly used by surgery in situations where it is important to maintain tension on a suture.
	Surgery Surgery is the medical specialty that treats diseases or injuries by operative manual and instrumental treatment. Surgeons may be physicians, dentists, or veterinarians who specialize in surgery. A surgery can also refer to the place where surgery is performed, or simply the office of a physician, dentist, or veterinarian.
	Surinam Cherry The Surinam Cherry is a plant in the family Myrtaceae, native to tropical America. Known as Pitanga throughout Brazil, it is a large shrub or small tree with a conical form, growing slowly to 8 meters in height. The leaves are glossy green, up to 4 cm long, and new leaves are copper-colored.
	Surinam toad Surinam toads, also called star-fingered toads, are a genus of frog within the family Pipidae. They are native to northern South America, Like other pipids, these frogs are almost exclusively aquatic. The appearance of the toad is somewhat like a leaf, or a toad that has been stepped on.
	Suriname Suriname, officially the Republiek Suriname, is a country in northern South America. Other common names are Surinam or Sranang. It was Geographical renaming Nederlands Guyana, Netherlands Guiana or Dutch Guiana. It lies in between French Guiana to the east and Guyana to the west.
	Suriname River The Suriname River is 480 km long and flows through the country of Suriname. Its sources are located in the Guiana Highlands on the border between the Wilhelminagebergte and the Eilerts de Haangebergte. . The river flows below the reservoir along Brokopondo, Berg en Dal, the migrant communities Klaaskreek and Nieuw-Lomb, Jodensavanne, Carolina, Ornamibo and Domburg, before reaching the capital Paramaribo on the left b
	Surplice A surplice comprises a liturgy vestment of the Christian Church. It has the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton material, with wide or moderately wide sleeves, reaching to the hips or to the knee. It sometimes features or embroidered bordures, but is most typically plainly hemmed.
	Surreal Surreal in general means bizarre or dreamlike. It may refer to following: * Surrealism, a diagnal movement in art and philosophy * Surreal humour, a common aspect of humour * Surreal numbers, a superset of the real numbers in mathematics * Surreal Software, a video game developer
	Surrealism Surrealism is an artistic, cultural and intellectual Cultural movement oriented toward the liberation of the mind by emphasizing the critical and imaginative faculties of the "unconscious mind" and the attainment of a dream-like state different from, "more than", and ultimately "truer" than everyday reality: the "sur-real", or "more than real".
	Surrey Surrey is a counties of England in southern England, part of the South East England Regions of England and one of the Home Counties. The county borders Berkshire, Greater London, Hampshire, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex. The county town is Guildford.
	Surveillance Surveillance is the monitoring of behavior. Systems Surveillance is the process of monitoring the behavior of people, objects or processes within systems for conformity to expected or desired norms in trusted systems for security or social control. See also, deviation analysis.
	Surveying Surveying is the technique and science of accurately determining the terrestrial or three-dimensional space position of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually, but not exclusively, associated with positions on the surface of the Earth, and are often used to establish land maps and boundaries for ownership or governmental purposes.
	Survival of the fittest Survival of the fittest is a phrase which is a shorthand for a concept relating to competition for survival or predominance. Originally applied by Herbert Spencer in his Principles of Biology of 1864, Spencer drew parallels to his ideas of economics with Charles Darwin's theories of evolution by what Darwin termed natural selection.
	Survivors Survivors was a United Kingdom television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerned the plight of a group of people who had survived an accidentally released pandemic that had killed nearly the entire population of the planet.
	Surya In Hinduism, Surya is the chief solar deity, son of Dyaus Pitar. He has hair and arms of gold. His chariot is pulled by seven horses, which represent the seven chakras.
	Susa Susa is a city in the Khuzestan province of Iran. It had an estimated population of 64,960 in 2005.
	Susan B. Anthony Susan Brownell Anthony was a prominent, independent, and well-educated United States civil rights leader and abolitionist, who joined with other women's rights leaders to secure History of women's suffrage in the United States.
	Susan Sontag Susan Sontag was a well-known United States essayist, novelist, intellectual, filmmaker and activism.
	Sushi In Japanese cuisine, sushi is a food made of vinegared rice combined with various toppings or fillings, which are most commonly seafood and can also include meat, vegetables, mushrooms, or egg . Sushi toppings may be raw, cooked, or marinated. Sushi as an English language word has come to refer to the complete dish ; this is the sense used in this article.
	Suspended Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare is an interactive fiction computer game written by Michael Berlyn and published by Infocom in 1983. It belongs to the science fiction genre, and is considered by many fans to be one of Infocom's better non-Zork-related titles. Like most Infocom titles, it was ported to most popular personal computers of the day, such as the Apple II, IBM PC compatible, Atari ST and Commodore 64.
	Suspended animation Suspended animation is the slowing of life processes by external means without termination. Breathing, heartbeat, and other involuntary functions may still occur, but they can only be detected by artificial means. Extreme cold is used to precipitate the slowing of an individual's functions; use of this process had led to the developing science of cryonics.
	Suspension bridge A suspension bridge is a type of bridge that has been made since ancient times. Simple suspension bridges, for use by pedestrians and livestock, are still constructed, based upon the ancient Inca rope bridge. Suspended from two high locations over a river or canyon, simple suspension bridges follow a shallow downward arc and are not suited for modern roads and railroads.
	Susquehanna River The Susquehanna River is a river in the northeastern United States. At approximately 410 mile long, it is the longest river on the American East Coast. The Susquehanna forms from two main branches, with the North Branch, which rises in upstate New York often regarded as an extension of the main branch.
	Sussex Sussex is a traditional counties of England in South East England England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for administrative purposes into West Sussex and East Sussex and the City of Brighton and Hove.
	Sustainable *As in timber and logging: **Sustainable forestry *As in fishing: **Sustainable fisheries *As in land use: **Sustainable agriculture *As in Sustainable tourism *As in the ability of humanity to endure in a healthy state indefinitely: **Sustainable living
	Sutherland Sutherland is a committee area of the Highland Council, Scotland, a registration county, and a Lieutenancy areas of Scotland. The population as at the United Kingdom Census 2001 was 13,466. Sutherland was formerly a County of Scotland, until 1975.
	Sutler A sutler or victualer is a civilian who sells provisions to an army in the field, in camp or in quarters. The word, like numerous other naval and military terms, came into English from Dutch language, where it appears as soetelaar or zoetelaar. It meant originally "one who does dirty work, a drudge, a scullion", and derives from zoetelen, a word cognate with "suds", "seethe" and "sodden".
	Suture Sutures are the stitches Physicians, and especially surgerys, use to hold skin, internal organs, blood vessels and all other tissues of the human body together, after they have been severed by injury or surgery. They must be strong, non-toxic and hypoallergenic, and flexible.
	Suva Suva is the capital city of Fiji. It is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in the division of Central Division, Fiji, of which it is the administrative centre. Suva became the capital of Fiji in 1877 when the geography of former main Kaivalagi settlement at Levuka on the island of Ovalau proved too restrictive.
	Svalbard Svalbard is an archipelago lying in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Europe, about midway between Norway and the North Pole. It consists of a island groups ranging from 76degree to 81 North, and 10 to 35 East. The archipelago is the northernmost part of the Kingdom of Norway.
	Swage block A swage block is a large, heavy block of steel used in smithing, with various sized holes in its face and usually with forms on the sides. The through holes are of various shapes and sizes and are used to hold the end of a piece of hot metal for further shaping, usually a bending operation.
	Swagger Swagger is the first full studio album by the Ireland-United States punk rock Musical band Flogging Molly, mixed by Steve Albini. It was released in 2000.
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	Swallow The swallows and martins are a group of passerine birds in the family Hirundinidae which are characterised by their adaptation to aerial feeding. Swallow is also used in Europe as a synonym for the Barn Swallow. This family comprises two subfamilies: Pseudochelidoninae and Hirundininae.
	Swallow-tailed Kite The Swallow-tailed Kite is an elanid kite which breeds from the southeastern United States to eastern Peru and northern Argentina. Most North America and Central American breeders bird migration in South America. It was formerly named Falco forficatus.
	Swamp A swamp is a wetland that features permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water, generally with a substantial number of hummocks, or dry-land protrusions. Swamps are usually regarded as including a large amount of woody vegetation. When a wetland area does not include such vegetation, it is usually termed a marsh.
	Swamp Chestnut Oak The Swamp Chestnut Oak is a species of oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Quercus Quercus section Quercus, native to bottomlands and wetlands in the southern and central United States, from New Jersey south to northern Florida, and west to Missouri and eastern Texas; it is rare north of the Ohio River.
	Swamp dewberry The Swamp Dewberry or Bristly Dewberry is a rubus. It reaches a height of from 0.2 m to 1 m tall and is in leaf all year. It grows in moist or sometimes dry soils, ditches, swales or open woods in eastern North America, from Ontario to the Maritime Provinces and south to South Carolina.
	Swamp Milkweed Swamp Milkweed is a species of milkweed. External links* from the Natural Resources Conservation Service database
	Swamp Rabbit The Swamp Rabbit is a large cottontail rabbit found in the swamps and wetlands of the U.S. Southern states.
	Swamp Sparrow The Swamp Sparrow, Melospiza georgiana, is a medium-sized American sparrow. Adults have streaked rusty and black upperparts with a grey breast, light belly and a white throat. They have a rust-coloured cap and wings. Their face is grey with a dark line through the eye. They have a short bill and fairly long legs.
	Swamp White Oak The Swamp White Oak, is a species of oak in the List of Quercus species#Section Quercus Quercus section Quercus, native to eastern North America from southernmost Quebec and southern Maine west to southern Minnesota, and south to northern Alabama and North Carolina.
	Swamp Willow Swamp Willow is a shrubby willow native to boglands in subarctic and arctic Europe and Asia, with a few small isolated populations further south in mountain bogs in the Alps. The leaf resemble Bilberry. Hence the name in Finnish and Swedish languages which translates as "Bog Bilberry Willow".
	Swan Swans are large water birds of the family Anatidae, which also includes goose and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely related geese in the subfamily Anserinae. Swans usually mate for life, though "divorce" does sometimes occur, particularly following nesting failure.
	Swansea Swansea is a City status in the United Kingdom in Wales and subdivisions of Wales. The city of Swansea is situated on the South Wales coast immediately to the east of the Gower Peninsula and is the second largest city in Wales. It grew to its present importance during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, becoming a centre of heavy industry.
	Swanson Swanson is a brand of frozen dinners, broths, and canned poultry. The frozen dinner business is currently owned by Pinnacle Foods, while the broth business is currently owned by the Campbell Soup Company. Current frozen dinner products sold under the brand include pot pies, Hungry-Man, and American Recipe TV Dinners, and the current broth lineup includes chicken broth and beef broth.
	Swarm The term swarm is applied to fish, birds and insects and describes a behavior of an aggregation of animals of similar size and body orientation, generally cruising in the same direction. Swarmings is a more specific term, referring to the reproductive action of an entire Colony of bees; see Queen bee and Honeybee life cycle.
	Swash Swash, in geography, is the water that washes up on shore after an incoming Ocean surface wave has broken. This action will cause sand and other light particles to be transported up the beach.
	Swashbuckler Swashbuckler is a term that came about in the 16th century and was applied to rough, noisy and boastful sword. It came about due to the popularity of the fighting style using a side-sword with a buckler in the off-hand, which was filled with much "swashing and making a noise on the buckler"
	Swastika he swastika is an equilateral cross with its arms bent at Angle#Types of angles in either left-facing or right-facing direction. The swastika is a sacred symbol in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The Hindu version is often decorated with a dot in each quadrant.
	SWAT SWAT is a specialized unit in many United States police departments, which is trained to perform dangerous operations. These can include serving high-risk arrest warrants, performing hostage rescue, preventing terrorist attacks, and engaging heavily-armed criminals. SWAT teams are equipped with specialized firearms including submachine guns, shotguns, carbines, tear gas, Hand grenade#Stun grenades, and high-powered rifles for marksman.
	Swatch Swatch is a brand of quartz watches produced by The Swatch Group Ltd. Swatch was originally intended to re-capture entry level market share lost by Swiss manufacturers during the aggressive growth of Japanese companies such as Seiko in the 1960s and 1970s. The name "Swatch" is often misconstrued as a contraction of the words "Swiss Watch", but Nicolas Hayek, the Chairman of the Swatch Group, affirms that the original contraction was "Second Watch" -- the new watch was introduced with a new concept of watches as casua
	Swaziland The Kingdom of Swaziland is a small, landlocked country in Southern Africa , situated on the eastern slope of the Drakensberg, embedded between South Africa in the west and Mozambique in the east. The country is named after the Swazi, a Bantu tribe.
	Sweater A sweater is a relatively heavy garment intended to cover the torso and arms of the human body and typically to be worn over a shirt, blouse, T-shirt or other top. Sweaters tend to be, and in earlier times always were, made from wool; however, they can be made of cotton, synthetic fiber, or some combination thereof.