How To Use Vest In A Sentence
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This came out of an investigation he was carrying out into when a ternary quartic form could be represented as the sum of five fourth powers of linear forms.
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Three healthcare assistants have been charged after an investigation into the alleged abuse of elderly hospital patients.
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But I do know there is a greater prospect he will seek a bit of equity in the distribution of investment and development of infrastructure than the present triumvirate.
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A repair job is bad enough; but an investment in managerial ego is worse.
MANAGING FOR RESULTS
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During the take-over battle the stock quotations of both enterprises rose so that an investor would have to wait several hundred years to finance the purchase price of the shares from the present level of profits.
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Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
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Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment.
Real Estate
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Much investigative journalism involves some form of subterfuge.
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If you don't invest in these shares, you're saying no to a fortune.
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Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation.
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Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
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In each case the company's contributions are deductible for tax, and income on the investments is free of tax.
Principles of Corporate Finance
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For winemakers in the Rhone, 2002 was a disastrous year, with violent storms and huge rainfall during the harvest.
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But the initial reason was unascertained and needed further investigation, particularly a toxicology report.
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Disclosure of information would compromise the proper conduct of the investigation.
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Police may now reinvestigate her unsolved murder.
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Instead they have further undermined the economy by driving capital and foreign investors out of the country.
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They point out that, for customers, obsoleting an investment is not an ‘escape’ but a ‘closed door.’
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Perhaps some time in the future bonds will be issued for foreign investors.
Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
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Applicants for government posts are always thoroughly investigated before being appointed.
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Effects of bagging on loquat fruit appearance, postharvest characteristics and quality were studied.
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The livestock scheme is run on commercial lines rather than donations.
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Investigations indicated the fire started from a temporary storehouse at the building's rear adjacent to a boiler room.
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The scrutiny is really high and people are so invested in it.
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Christopher Rees is another self-taught value investor but runs a concentrated portfolio of only ten stocks; his average annual return for the last decade is 24%.
Tap Your Inner Buffett
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Conseco has no investment bankers, legal counsel, commercial bankers, or consultants doing business with the company on its board, nor are there any interlocking directorates.
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A private detective was hired to conduct the investigation .
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A €500 million investment in upgrading long-haul aircraft is part of the turnaround.
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This day wilt thou either bring back in triumph the gory head and spoils of Aeneas, and we will avenge Lausus 'agonies; or if no force opens a way, thou wilt die with me: for I deem not, bravest, thou wilt deign to bear an alien rule and a Teucrian lord.'
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Barmbrack (currant tea bread) is a celebration of chestnuts and walnut harvests.
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A prolonged period of low investment will weaken productivity and longterm potential growth.
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We also investigated a possible DMSO effect on the frequency of polyploid and endo-reduplicated cells by chromosome counting.
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The aim, therefore, was to attract substantial foreign investment.
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Investigations are not yet complete who exactly set the coach on fire.
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Shrimp, crab, and a variety of fish are harvested from the ocean.
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This investment trust has delivered exceptional returns over the past few years by riding a wave of mergers, acquisitions and innovation.
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Immunoproteomics, a powerful tool for studying antigens at the proteomic level, allowed a comparative investigation of the immunogenicity of capsulate and non-capsulate strains of L. garvieae for vaccine development.
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Whether these positive initiatives will be enough to overcome disappointment on the limited over-all budget reduction will depend on the extent to which the investor is willing to look beyond near-term sluggishness in North American growth.
Budget '85 Special Meeting of The Empire Club of Canada
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The investigation will try to find out where the guilt for the disaster really lies.
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But researchers have had mixed success in recreating the original experiments showing both that sirtuins can extend life, and that they can be "activated" by a substance called resveratrol, which is currently found in anti-aging creams and under investigation for ailments associated with old age.
Reuters: Press Release
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Talking about the investment in the new main stand, the increased capacity, and the scope for making money rather than just haemorrhaging it, he insisted his family are in it for the long haul.
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The year-long investigation has five detectives and two police staff working on it full time.
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Aggie and her husband Pat were farming people who tilled the land, harvested the crops and raised livestock.
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Amid it all stands Mitt Romney, not the high-flying investment lots of Republicans yearned to put their money on, but the unspectacular Treasury bill of Republican candidates, a man whose emphasis on jobs and the economy makes him a safe enough bet at a time like this.
GOP 'Flight to Safety' Benefits Romney
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Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital.
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The company raised €10 million in May, but decided to extend the round after it was oversubscribed by potential investors.
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It suggests that the existing regime contains aspects which unduly deter investment.
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Consequently, we lag all the other industrialized countries in buildout investment, even France!! —
Comcast Appeals F.C.C. Sanction - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
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And even those who'd retired in the fullness of time were no longer secure from retrospective investigation and changed pensionable status.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Finally, for those comfortable with investing in stocks there are a wealth of options to choose from.
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Studies in the past showed that subsoiling clay soil in the spring does not improve cotton harvests.
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The cases have mainly involved small companies and hedge funds or predatory investors.
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The failure of the monsoon would destroy harvests on which 1000 million people rely.
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With a minimal investment, investors can bet whether almost the entire market will rise or fall.
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As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
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Hundreds die everyday without the seemliness of a proper investigation since there is never anyone to care.
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There is no doubt the fund management industry does not always work in the interests of investors.
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Thin capitalisation - offshore jurisdictions tend not to impose \ "thin capitalisation\" rules on companies (except for regulated entities such as banks and insurance companies), allowing them to be formed with a purely nominal equity investment.
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An epitaph is on a gravestone, and while I am sure they would be happy to oblige, that wasn’t what they were actually throwing, I don’t think ….
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These two transaction costs discourage foreign investment and borrowing.
International Finance: The markets and financial management of multinational business.
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For each of these components of primary education the investigator is concerned to improve the quality of initial training.
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Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion.
Rama Revisited
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They also investigate the origins of various heraldic monsters, such as the basilisk (based on the hooded cobra).
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Snap elections called towards the end of last year deterred investment and the recovery ground to a halt.
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It is selling assets to free up money to invest.
The Sun
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This appears to be a reasonable choice for the threefold channel, which is formed by wide vestibules and has only a short neck region.
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Newspapers have, however, reported that prosecutors are convinced the investigating magistrate in charge of a corruption and fraud inquiry involving the regional governments of the Balearic Islands and Valencia will soon officially name him as a suspect in the case.
Spain's king blocks scandal-hit son-in-law from royal duties
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The lead found in captive condors and released condors with low levels in their blood had isotope ratios similar to lead found in dead livestock and wildlife that had not been killed by hunters.
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Mr. SOARIES: Robert Tilton, Robert Tilton is a so-called televangelist who was discovered to have gotten prayer requests accompanied by money and then when an investigative reporter went behind his church he found all of those prayer requests dumped unopened.
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Investments that rely on the misfortune of others or the good will of sharks are a losing proposition in the long term, whatever the quarterly earnings report says.
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That's about four acres under cultivation - enough to produce a total harvest last year of about 10,000 bundles.
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No part of the lunar globe became visible in relief against circumfluous solar radiance on any of the plates exposed at Grenada; and what vestiges of "structure" there were, came out almost better _upon_ the moon than _beside_ her, thus stamping themselves at once as of atmospheric origin.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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Most fledgling parents or parents-to-be feel duty-bound to invest in some sort of guide to looking after a new baby, and publishers, naturally, feel duty-bound to take advantage of that by churning out one guide after another.
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The production of a visceral-specific anti-peptide antibody should permit a further investigation of its expression in smooth muscle cells.
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Dr Lotto has invented special paving slabs made of photovoltaic cells and recycled glass to harvest sunlight and to help power the structure.
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Two independent investigators have reached virtually the same conclusions.
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Bigger discounts on equity and debt issuance to get them away risks seeing investment cut, borrowing reduced and jobs lost.
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Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who chairs an investigative subcommittee that will hold a hearing on the report today, said the Obama administration should "get on with it and actually debar the worst of the tax cheats from the contractor workforce.
GAO report: Tax cheats received billions in stimulus funds
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The researchers sensibly restricted the investigation to time travellers from the future, 'given practical verifiability concerns'.
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An inventor in Finland has devised a new method of keeping dogs safe from wolves: little protective vests.
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Kaysersberg; finally, in one of the vestries is the epitaph, in german verses, of the celebrated printer John Mentelin of
Historical Sketch of the Cathedral of Strasburg
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This South Wales operation uses hand-raking and sieving to harvest the molluscs.
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When a firm buys a new machine, it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost.
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On - the - spot investigation, network discussion exchanges, begin creations and compose a research paper and introspect.
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After several years of investigations, the Boys Ranch was indicted on criminal Medicaid fraud and grand theft charges last April.
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First, investors have moved back into equities from their previously cautious positions in less risky bonds.
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To make best use of existing technology investment and implement future-proof design and platform functionality.
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Her trousers were of spotted sealskin, her vest of red fox.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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I asked him to send Koli so that he could drive me back to Jessore so I could get my investors - I would rent an autorickshaw to bring them to the site if I had to.
Kristin Boekhoff: Ecopreneur: Never Let Them See You Sweat
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The U.S. attorney in the district can impanel a grand jury if they feel that there is evidence warranting a criminal investigation.
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The investor decides on the currency most likely to appreciate against sterling and puts money on deposit in that currency.
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Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation.
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Prayer, and receive the Sacrament every day; because they do not subject and submit themselves wholly and entirely to him that hath Light, nor deny and conquer themselves, nor give up themselves totally to God, with a perfect divesting and disinteresting of themselves: In a word, till the Soul be purified in the Fire of Inward Pain, it will never get to a State of
The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.
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She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities.
Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
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After first-round draft pick Sylvester Morris ended a 20-day holdout by signing a seven-year deal, the team didn't want to waste any time getting him on the field.
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At harvest time all the villagers lend a hand.
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For bond investors it's a bleak picture.
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British air accident investigators were being sent to help with the inquiry.
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The investigation into the air crash would inevitably apportion blame to certain members of the crew.
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Tax cuts will leave more in people 's pockets to spend and $1 trillion of infrastructure investment will reinforce demand for labour for a decade.
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And when I see how many people are being sucked into gold investments from all those cheesy radio and TV ads (with their overt or sometimes explicit survivalist overtones), I see another bubble being blown that at some sad point will go blooey.
Fox Business News, Where Green Arrows Turn Brown Eyes Blue: James Wolcott
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Non-governmental organizations were formed to oppose the pumping, and in 2001 the federal government launched an investigation into the company on the grounds it was violating constitutional prohibitions on demineralizing water.
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The party last night maintained its refusal to reopen the investigation.
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If you opt for a fish dish for your main meal, diver harvested scallops wrapped in bacon with hollandaise sauce is sure to get the mouth watering.
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Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
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Being charged in this investigation has affected him greatly and his good name has been slurred.
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The last vestiges of doubt were erased in little more than a nanosecond.
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An accumulation of debt has caused investors to worry that Portugal will not be able to pay back the money.
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The Lions deserve the sweet victory in light of their sustained investment in good players.
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The international investment bank has warned investors of the potential risk exposure arising from equities.
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How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation.
Redgauntlet
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A Muslim group here in Washington, D.C., now revealing what it knows about the investigation, and what it describes as a disturbing farewell video left before they headed off.
CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2009
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June 26th, 2009 6: 31 am csis violate canadians individuals civils rights. my civils rights was violated 21 years ago. nothing was done about this. csis believe that l am God. lt will take years to explain. this has been top secret for decades. l would like an investigation and compensation outside csis.
CSIS Doesn’t Protect Canadians : Law is Cool
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It is also the first provider to offer a with-profits investment option.
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As plants do not possess a mechanism to degrade lignins, lignification represents a significant, non-recoverable investment of carbon and energy.
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Some are unhappy at the possibility of a highly geared offer that could damage the value of their investments.
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The investigators have recommended the removal of dual control joysticks for all non-training flights.
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For example, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators and interplanetary spacecraft all cost too much for single investigators.
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* In primitive conditions, given the unsually demanding task (compared to other mammals) of raising human babies, paternal investment in offspring is required.
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A lengthy police investigation failed to produce any evidence on which the suspect could be convicted.
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I don't usually watch this soap but on Monday the characters very neatly recapped the last two years of their lives and allowed me to enjoy the high drama without having invested anything at all.
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Similar struggles exist in east Malaysia, where the land rights of indigenous groups are bitterly disputed with loggers eager to harvest the timber for export.
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All of the information collated here is part of a wider investigation currently being pursued by a number of media outlets.
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Code Unknown is therefore a movie that requires a considerable investment of attention.
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We had to decide whether to increase investment or take time out and reduce our exposure.
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A common goal of population genetic investigations is to explain the fate of genetic polymorphism within a species.
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Both require a minimum investment of £1, give instant access and include gifts.
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It claimed the refinery was losing 10m a month and was in danger of permanent closure unless new investment could be found.
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Walking along the beach, he saw a tall, heavyset man throwing something into the water, and altered his course to investigate further.
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The New York Police Department's hate crimes unit is investigating 22 Swastika's inscrolled throughout a high school in Manhattan.
CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2007
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He was left in limbo by Scottish Labour's Executive, which refused to endorse his candidacy until Fife police concluded their investigations into the case.
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Often the founders or their descendants, they tend to take a longer-term view than purely financial investors and are more concerned with issues such as reputation.
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The Scandinavian countries have a short harvest season and a long, flat winter.
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They also deprive Australian livestock of food by scouring the cultivated rangelands, which also facilitates erosion.
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Analysts had expected it to earn 36 cents a share, the average estimate of four analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
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Custody differs from fund management, where assets are actively invested in stocks and bonds.
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Critics argue the process may cause earth tremors and want investment in green energy.
The Sun
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The effect of interest arbitrage is to make it irrelevant where a person invests or borrows.
International Finance: The markets and financial management of multinational business.
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Any money made is reinvested to build the business.
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It was a busy day for those oil stocks traded heavily by friskier private investors.
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The supply line is the top line of the triangle and represents the overbought side of the market, when investors are going out taking profits with them.
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If you strike it rich, you'll probably "reinvest" your profits in another turn of the wheel.
Investing, After The Bubble Making It Back
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Sometimes crime investigation is so difficult, like the real stumper for Fort Worth, Texas, detectives.
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His desire to enjoy life while he is still able suggests that rental property may be the wrong investment for him.
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Take time to shop around; get to know your local wine merchant or investigate your local supermarket.
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The objective was to demonstrate proper fertilization and harvesting practices to improve hay quality.
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No one in this world is going to invest time here unless they see the country demilitarise and demobilise.
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The rise and fall of this company is a cautionary tale for anyone investing in the property market.
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The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed.
The Skeptic's Field Guide
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They were bagged up to be taken away by Trading Standards officers for investigation.
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First, peoples' idea affects their propensity to save and consume and invest, and difference attitude on risk, which are impacted on the economic situation.
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The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs.
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A high percentage of their investmetns were tax shelters andthey are featured in the 2003 and 2005 Senate reports on abusive tax shelter promotion.
Updates On The Clintons' Tax Returns
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First, we reconsider the definitions of consumption, saving and investment and discuss the distinction between consumption and investment.
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It only entered administration because of a lack of funding and investment.
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It then sends that information in machine-readable form to itsalgorithmic subscribers, which can parse it further, using the resulting datato inform their own investing decisions.
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Then, the bubble burst and thousands of investors were ruined.
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The investment banking arm has delivered strong profits growth in recent years by pushing both its clients' and its own capital into commodities and currency speculation.
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Provision for diminution in value of foreign investment are the number of ready?
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In the mean time they pass for the mandatories of the popular sovereign, with full power in all directions, because he has delegated his omnipotence to them, and the sole power, because their investiture is the most recent; under this sanction, they stalk around somewhat like supernumeraries at the Opera, dressed in purple and gold, representing
The French Revolution - Volume 2
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And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet.
Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
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That is why investors keep a close eye on Hong Kong airfreight volumes, which serve as a barometer of global trade activity and growth prospects.
FedEx's Prospects May Take Cue From Hong Kong
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However, the officer in charge of the investigation said it was the only way to gather compelling evidence.
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The methodology is applicable to the investigation of parentage for all progeny developed from parental mating without subsequent generations of inbreeding.
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It could start with a leaky eavestrough that ices up somebody else's walkway.
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They're monuments to dead climbers - not gravestones per se but carefully constructed shrines.
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A federal investigator was on campus within 48 hours after news broke about the scandal.
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We hope that potential investors will take the bait.
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If at all, the Euro increases trust in sane long term policy just like the EU institutions in general for Italy, thus reducing investment risk which leads to more growth.
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There were about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest.
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He also looks a shrewd investment.
The Sun
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Methods This investigation was conducted among 310 medical students using 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire(16PF) and Eysenck Personality Questionnaire(EPQ).
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I’ve also read mesopotamian myths that have survived including the Avesta from the Zoroastrians which serves as a foundation of Judaism combined of course with the cult of Amun (the egyptian cult of the one god).
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They would help the communities learn which of their organizational traditions are most useful for stand control, for coordinating woodcutting in specific places, and perhaps for distributing the fruits of harvesting the forest.
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Massive investment in research and development; Put in place an industrial policy that prepares for the future and reduces the risks of delocalization; Support small and medium-sized businesses through the creation of regional participation funds and by reserving for them a percentage of public contracts; Give priority to business investment by lowering tax where the profit is reinvested and increasing it where it is distributed to shareholders.
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This money would re-enter into circulation as financial institutions invest it in other capitalistic ventures.
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T. Golan Stockholm, SwedenAmerica needs to invest in long-term counterterrorist measures like cultural understanding.
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Add to this mix the prospects of an economy supercharged by €12 billion when the special saving investments accounts start to mature in under two years' time, and the economic winds seem to blowing fair for stocks.
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It is the produce of a single wine harvest in a specific year.
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A huge amount of energy was invested by D' Alema and his party in trying, by one means or another, to force this change through, in the hope that Berlusconi would find it to his advantage, too.
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Caring for livestock or tending the land seems an idyllic lifestyle.
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Her resignation came amid investor fury after she overpaid wildly for a Brazilian iron ore mine.
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The corporation is guaranteed this amount, and the investment banker takes the risk of selling issue.
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But our investigators were able to buy a large batch of the unlicensed synthetic chemical within minutes.
The Sun
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So will the investment in capital goods and engineering skills needed to modernise outmoded factories.
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His eyes and forehead were enlarged; the bearded chin, and his mouth, which she'd thought so fine, almost vestigial.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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The phone companies have invested in technologies and strategic alliances designed to enter the business.
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The continuity of such investment is key to the generation of consistently improving operating results in increasingly competitive markets.
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They were interspersed with rows of vines, whose high branches must have made the harvest very hard work.
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Your best bet is investing in a comfortable pillow which properly supports your head and neck.
The Sun
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But foreign inward investment is not automatically a good thing.
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Kane sits on the group's bancassurance committee, representing insurance and investments, and he works alongside executive director Peter Ayliffe, who is responsible for retail banking.
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What a charming possession of himself, that he could be in such a brangle, as I may call it, and which might have had fatal consequences; yet be so wholly, and so soon, divested of the subject; and so infinitely agreeable upon half a score others, as they offered from one or other as we sat at tea!
Sir Charles Grandison
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Gladiator breathed deeply, taking off his red vest briefly and fanning himself with it.
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When the results of the fraud investigation were announced last week, the staff came up smelling of roses.
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In recent years, the Fiat group has been making large investments in Maserati, which it controls through its Ferrari subsidiary.
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The effects of the structures of the compounds on the insect glutamate potentials were investigated by using electrophysiological intracellular microelectrode recording technique.
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Flooding and floating affecting the appearances and the effect of latex paint and film were investigated.
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Funding is a special challenge now, because governments in many countries are disinvesting in higher education.
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It is a sombre painting with the only bright colour provided by the clergymen's vestments and by the headscarves of the women.