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Dacca
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Dacca Bangladesh: see Dhaka .
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
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Dacca Dyeing declares 10 pc dividend, THE INDEPENDENT
The Independent (Bangladesh); 1/2/2002; 268 words
; 00-00-0000 The 23rd Annual General Meeting of The Dacca Dyeing and Manufacturing Co Ltd was held recently at a city hotel, says a press release. The meeting was presided over by Saifuddin ...
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Dacca dyeing declares 5 per cent dividend, THE INDEPENDENT
The Independent (Bangladesh); 1/2/2004; 323 words
; The Independent (Bangladesh) 01-02-2004 The 25th Annual General Meeting of The Dacca Dyeing and Manufacturing Co Ltd was held on at the Company's Factory premises at Tongi in Gazipur recently. The meeting was presided ...
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FLOOD AID FOR BANGLADESH, NEW ECHO OFFICE IN DACCA.
European Report; 10/24/1998; 222 words
; ... Crescent Societies. ECHO, which acts under the aegis of Commissioner Emma Bonino, opened on October 16 a Regional Office in Dacca, as the hub for the new Disaster Preparedness Programme (DIPECHO) for South-East Asia and Bangladesh. The office will also monitor ...
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dego dacca: Like a White Man (#418).(Sami ways of knowing)
ReVision; 6/22/1998; Kremer, Jurgen W.; 8214 words
; ... remember how it all started. Yet. I am small. Fascinated with maps and books. I feel the smoothness of the paper as I cross the ... sale. On sale for non-Sami people. A white person like me. Dacca. Tambour chamanique, collection du Prince Roland Bonaparte ... tradtional ecological knowledge, and the critique of ...
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Cricket: From Dacca to Dhaka, a voyage round Bangladesh Cricket Diary: Stephen Brenkley
The Independent - London; 7/2/2000; 863 words
; ... first home Test will be played, has already staged seven Tests between 1955 and 1969. The country was then East Pakistan and Dacca, as it used to be called, was the site of Pak-istan's inaugural home Test. Bangladesh was part of the Indian province of Bengal ...
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WAYS & MEANS
The Washington Post; 12/6/1987; Magda Krance; 548 words
; ... Round-trip coach fare from New York to Dacca costs about $3,000. A visa is required ... than land travel. An overnight ferry from Dacca to Barisal takes 12 hours. First-class ... Parjatan Corp., Old Airport Building, Tezgaon, Dacca 15. There is also an office at the Dacca ...
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Politics trapped in evil, THE INDEPENDENT
The Independent (Bangladesh); 8/2/2000; Monaem Sarker; 2519 words
; ... First Annual Council Meeting of the party, held at Dacca in July, 1953.11. The subject was elected an M.L ... instigating an unruly mob to attack the Jail Wardens of the Dacca Central Jail and break the Jail Barrack in April ... his prejudicial activities and was detained in the Dacca Central Jail. He was ...
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LIFE'S NOT ALL PLANE SAILING.(the world's best and worst airports)(Brief Article)
Business Asia; 6/1/2000; Fischer, Tim; 858 words
; ... airports -- and doesn't like what he sees FROM DACCA to Lima, Dalian to London, over the next ... the non-travelling airport visitor. Go to Dacca, Bangladesh, and you will see thousands ... unpopular politician or bureaucrat: fly into Dacca Airport and assume the watching hordes ...
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Tannery wastes in Bangladesh:.
Haznews; 12/1/1998; 99 words
; A recent seminar in Dacca, Bangladesh, has supported the need for all the tanneries in the country ... receive the kind of attention it deserves . Within the Hazaribagh area of Dacca, tanneries generate 7.7 million litres of liquid and 88 tonnes of solid ...
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Zoning Revision Is Vital I s ...
The Washington Post; 4/24/2005; Letters To The Editor; 956 words
; ... Dunkirk Area Concerned Citizens Association (DACCA) has advocated strong growth control measures ... Crafting good laws is vital and hard. DACCA works with a number of groups and seeks ... concerns for the good of Calvert County. DACCA can be reached at PO Box 887, Dunkirk ...
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spinning
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... which was then wound on it. With these simple tools were spun extremely fine yarns. In India the delicate threads for the famed Dacca muslin were produced by revolving needle-thin pieces of bamboo in a coconut shell. The primitive Gurkha wheel was used to spin ...
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