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NEXUS – connection or series of connections linking
two or more groups.

NICOTINE – is the main psychoactive substance in
tobacco. People who use tobacco can develop
tolerance for and become physically dependent on
nicotine.

NIGHT TIME – refers to the hours of darkness, taken
as the time period from one-half hour before
sunset to one-half hour after sunrise.

NIGHT-TIME ECONOMY – used to describe bars,
pubs, nightclubs and fast-food outlets, often
clustered in town and city centers.

NOMINAL PARTY – one who is joined as plaintiff or
defendant, not because he has any real interest in
the subject matter or because any relief is
demanded as against him, but merely because the
technical rules of pleading require his presence on
the record.

NON-INDEX CRIMES – are violations of special laws
and others crimes such as crimes against morals
and order (prostitution vagrancy alarm and scandal
assault resistance to authority. Corruption of public
officials, gambling, slander and libel, threat and
coercion, and trespassing), crimes against chastity
(abduction, seduction, lascivious acts), other
crimes against property (estafa and falsification,
malicious mischief, damage to property).

NON-JACKETED BULLETS – are usually made of an
alloy comprised of lead, tin and antimony which is
slightly harder than pure lead.

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