Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
FLEXICURITY
Etymology
Noun
flexicurity (uncountable)
A welfare state model with a proactive labour market policy, combining easy hiring and firing (flexibility for employers) and high benefits for the unemployed (security for the employees).
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CARE
(noun) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; “he wrote the manual on car care”
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