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netOf a particular figure or price, calculated after the deduction of specific items such as commission, discounts, interest, and taxes. The opposite is gross. net
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| Numerous studies such as What Work Requires of Schools (Department of Labor, 1991), the Falling through the Net series (Department of Commerce, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2000), Building a Workforce for the Information Economy (National Academy, 2001), and "Preparing Future Technology Users" (Granger & Lippert, 1998) posit that computer skills are increasingly required to enter the workforce. Even as computers become more central to our society, minorities are falling through the Net. Irving initiated and was the principal author of the landmark federal study, Falling Through the Net, which tracked access to telecommunications and information technologies across racial, economic, and geographic lines. |
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