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n. - An alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991.

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  • For more information, contact CIS at 242-1520 or e-mail at CIS@ triad. rr.com.
  • CIS is good too, as are many other works; but they all take place against the backdrop of PMN.
  • Perhaps the CIS is simply anti illegal immigration, a difference that is no doubt lost on those who write for this site.
  • I found Rorty in CIS too quick to dismiss the advantages of a shared vocabulary, of working together to discover common truths, i.e., “metaphysics.”
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  • Something that is "cis" is something that has certain groups of atoms on the same side of the molecule, while to "siss" means to hiss.
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