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Reciprocal Tariff Act
The Reciprocal Tariff Act is the popular name for the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934, which let the president cut tariffs by up to 50 percent.
Reciprocal teaching
Reciprocal teaching is an instructional strategy in which students take turns leading small-group dialogue about a text, using predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing to improve reading comprehension.
Reciprocity (social psychology)
Reciprocity (social psychology): the norm of reciprocity, Gouldner's 1960 formulation, obligation to repay gifts and favors, Regan's Coca-Cola experiment, and direct and indirect reciprocity.
Reciprocity Treaty of 1875
Reciprocity Treaty of 1875, US-Hawaii Treaty of Reciprocity: bilateral commercial reciprocity pact signed January 30, 1875 by Hamilton Fish and Elisha H. Allen, admitting Hawaiian sugar duty-free into the US, fueling a sugar boom and Pearl Harbor's 1887 cession.
Recklessness (law)
Recklessness (law): a fault standard of consciously disregarding a substantial, unjustifiable risk, sitting between knowledge and negligence in the Model Penal Code hierarchy; in England and Wales defined subjectively since R v G (2003), and in tort an interstitial standard marking the boundary of malice.
Reckoning (TV series)
Reckoning (2019-2020) is a 10-episode Australian psychological thriller by David Hubbard and David Eick for Playmaker/Sony Pictures Television, starring Aden Young and Sam Trammell, set in California, released on Netflix May 1, 2020; ended after one season.
Recogni
Recogni is a San Jose and Munich AI inference chip startup founded in 2017, which moved from autonomous driving to data-center generative-AI inference as Tensordyne.
Recognition memory test
A recognition memory test is a behavioral paradigm in which a person studies a list of items and later judges each as old or new, measuring episodic memory accuracy.
Recognition of foreign adoption orders
Recognition of foreign adoption orders is the set of private-international-law rules by which one state gives legal effect to an adoption finalized in another, so the parent-child relationship survives the border.
Recognition of foreign divorces
Recognition of foreign divorces is the body of rules by which a state gives legal effect to a divorce granted by another country's courts or authorities.
Recognition of foreign divorces in Commonwealth jurisdictions
Recognition of foreign divorces in Commonwealth jurisdictions is how Commonwealth courts treat divorces granted abroad, mainly through domicile, residence tests, and the 1970 Hague Convention.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe
Recognition of same-sex unions in Europe covers marriage, registered partnerships, civil unions, and cohabitation statuses. Denmark pioneered registered partnerships in 1989; the Netherlands led on marriage in 2001; the ECtHR (Fedotova) and CJEU (Coman, C-713/23) drive cross-border recognition.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Italy
Recognition of same-sex unions in Italy: civil unions (unioni civili) under the Cirinnà law 76/2016, in force 5 June 2016, following Constitutional Court judgment 138/2010 and ECtHR Oliari v. Italy (2015); no same-sex marriage, adoption excluded, 2,936 unions in 2024.
Recognition of same-sex unions in Liechtenstein
Recognition of same-sex unions in Liechtenstein: registered partnerships since September 1, 2011 (68.8% referendum approval) and same-sex marriage under the amended Marriage Act from January 1, 2025, making Liechtenstein the last German-speaking country with marriage for all.
Recognition of same-sex unions in the Czech Republic
Same-sex unions in the Czech Republic (registrované partnerství, now partnerství) are recognized via registered partnership from 2006 and a Civil Code partnership from 1 January 2025, largely equal to marriage but without same-sex marriage itself.
Recognition of talaq in secular courts
Recognition of talaq in secular courts is the process by which civil judiciaries decide whether a unilateral Islamic divorce pronounced abroad dissolved a marriage for their own law.
Recognizance
Recognizance: a recorded court obligation in Anglo-American law binding a person (recognizor) to perform an act, usually to appear in court, on pain of a money forfeiture; basis of bail and release on one's own recognizance.
Reconcentración
The Reconcentración was the forced relocation of Cuba's rural population into Spanish-held towns, ordered by Valeriano Weyler in 1896, causing an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 deaths.
Reconciliation (accounting)
Reconciliation in accounting is the process of comparing internal records against external statements, such as a bank statement, to identify and correct differences and confirm balances agree.
Reconciliation (United States Congress)
Budget reconciliation is the expedited congressional process created by the 1974 Budget Act (Section 310) to enact tax and spending law with a simple Senate majority, constrained by the Byrd rule and used for laws such as the 2017 tax act and P.L. 119-21.
Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance is a military task of gathering information on enemy forces or terrain through visual observation or other detection means, and one of the three elements of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance.
Reconquest of Angola
The Portuguese reconquest of Luanda was the August 1648 recapture of the city from the Dutch West India Company by Salvador Correia de Sa's Brazilian-Portuguese expedition.
Reconquest of Buenos Aires
The Reconquest of Buenos Aires (Reconquista de Buenos Aires) was the recapture of the city from a British occupying force led by William Carr Beresford on 12 August 1806.
Reconquest of Constantinople by Michael VIII
The reconquest of Constantinople by Michael VIII was the capture of the Latin Empire's capital by the Empire of Nicaea on 25 July 1261, ending Latin rule since 1204.
Reconquest of Egypt by Artaxerxes III
The reconquest of Egypt by Artaxerxes III (اردشیر سوم) was the Achaemenid Persian campaign of 343 BC that overthrew pharaoh Nectanebo II and restored Persian rule over Egypt.
Reconquest of Nubia by Mentuhotep II
The reconquest of Nubia by Mentuhotep II (r. c. 2055–2004 BC) was a series of campaigns re-establishing Egyptian control over Lower Nubia, reaching as far south as Buhen.
Reconquista
Reconquista: the 8th–15th-century expansion of the Christian Iberian kingdoms against Muslim al-Andalus, ended by Granada's fall in 1492; also the contested 19th-century nationalist term for it, used by Francoists and the far right.
Reconstruction Amendments
The Reconstruction Amendments are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments (1865-1870), also called the Civil War Amendments, which abolished slavery, established birthright citizenship with due process and equal protection, and barred racial voting discrimination.
Reconstruction and Development Coalition
Reconstruction and Development Coalition (ائتلاف الإعمار والتنمية), Iraqi electoral alliance founded May 2025 by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani; won first place with 46 of 329 seats in the November 2025 election and joined the Shia Coordination Framework.
Reconstruction and Development Programme
The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) was the socio-economic policy framework adopted by South Africa's ANC-led government in 1994, best known for building millions of state-subsidized houses still called RDP houses.