How To Use Taipan In A Sentence
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Indonesia: aulia: A maid who arrived in Surabaya from Taiwan is the 1st suspected Indonesian swine flu carrier according to #metrotv (via @wolwol) fujitasenpai: RT @BrandingComm: Rebranding Idea: instead of “Swine Flu” how about “Hamdemic”, “Aporkalypse” or “Snoutbreak”? antonnyliem: Dimsum@ taipan.
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The old-fashioned taipan luxuriated in his ignorance of the Chinese language and of everything that was connected with China.
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In a single strike, a taipan can inject 60 mg of venom - enough to quickly paralyse a small marsupial but also more than enough to wipe out several human adults.
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Dubbed the "brown taipan," he stands out as an ethnic Filipino tycoon.
Manuel Villar's Run for President
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Mark Hutchinson, reptile and amphibian curator at the South Australian Museum, caught the immature female taipan while it was crossing a dirt track.
Archive 2007-03-01
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As for clothing, most male taipans brought their shirts, pyjamas and underwear from London, and then had them copied by native shirtmakers in Shanghai.
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The taipan, is the world's most poisonous snake and also lives in this unforgiving land.
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In addition, to meet particular needs, we also provide guests with special room types, such as Serene Room , Lady's Suite and Executive Taipan Room .
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In addition, to meet particular needs, we also provide guests with special room types, such as Serene Room , Lady's Suite and Executive Taipan Room .
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The Hong Kong-based retailing taipan disagreed so much that he has made an offer of 250p a share to take the company back into private hands.
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He was a taipan, one of the big business heads in Shanghai.
Clockwork Angel
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Even Australia's most dangerous snake, the taipan, carries enough venom to kill 30 adults, but its bite is not actually very painful, and it can take several hours for an untreated victim to die.
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Maggie Keswick's family had been merchants in China for 150 years and, by marrying into the Jardine family, became taipans of the Jardine Matheson company - a corporation which virtually ran Hong Kong.
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Addendum and details Oxyuranus temporalis - the new taipan species
Archive 2007-03-01
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Money was only part of the recompense for a taipan or griffin, the assistant to a taipan.
The Last Empress
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According to the January, 1935 edition of Fortune Magazine, the average salary of taipans working in large foreign hongs was $75,000 per year.
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For example, Australian snakes such as the taipan and the brown snake use two active enzymes in their venom that are also present in human blood: factor X and factor V.
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This marks the third species of taipan known, and the first in 125 years.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Just this February, Dr. Fry and his colleagues filed a patent for a molecule found in the venom of the inland taipan that may help treat congestive heart failure.
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In the paper A new species of taipan (Elapidae: Oxyuranus) from central Australia, researchers P. Doughty, B. Maryan, S.C. Donnellan and M.N. Hutchinson (in Zootaxa 1422: 45-58: 2007) described Oxyuranus temporalis.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Heir apparent to Chinese-Filipino taipan John Gokongwei and the driving force behind the rapid expansion of Cebu Pacific, Lance Gokongwei is causing a big splash in the Philippines and across Southeast Asia as he secures more and more routes for the low-cost carrier.
The Southeast Asia Power List
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He provided the Commonwealth Serum Laboratory with snake venom, including that of the taipan, for antivenom production.
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RESEARCHERS have found a new species of taipan snake slithering in the outback.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Sources say he is frequently sought out for advice and counsel by real taipans, some of Hong Kong's most powerful businessmen.