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Rocking the boat in Miami: Archdiocese offers hope to melting pot of people. (Miami, Florida Catholics) (Cover Story)
National Catholic Reporter
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January 15, 1993|
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Introduction
MIAMI -- What critics say may be the most salacious double standard practiced by the outgoing Bush administration appeared to have occurred here again in late December when 53 Cubans landed at Miami International Airport on board a hijacked airliner.
Within three days of flying into Miami from Havana, every passenger who wanted to stay in the United States was released from federal custody. Forty-eight refugees, backed by lawyers from the powerful Cuban American National Foundation, elected to stay as legal aliens. Five other Cubans were ...
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Numerals in Formosan languages.
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics
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Numeral classifiers and counting systems in Polynesian and Micronesian languages: common roots and cultural adaptations.
Magazine article from: Oceanic Linguistics
; ...Polynesian languages, numeral classifiers are typically...objects, with general numerals prevailing elsewhere...requires the use of a numeral classifier. Etymological...between some of these numeral classifiers and numerals used in the specific...
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The Subsystem of Numerals in Catalan Sign Language: Description and Examples from a Psycholinguistic Study
Magazine article from: Sign Language Studies
; ...or different digits. Some numerals were the first ones of a unit...collection; nevertheless, many of numerals of the three collections were the same. We presented the numerals as a list, one under the other...or written on cards, one numeral on each card. The lists included...
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THINKING ON PAPER: HINDU-ARABIC NUMERALS IN EUROPEAN TYPOGRAPHY
Magazine article from: Visible Language
; ...counting specialists.1 THE ROMAN NUMERAL SYSTEM ROMAN NUMERALS WERE USEFUL TO PRE-RENAISSANCE...between the amount of a roman numeral and its length is weak: for...converting to hindu-arabic numerals first.) Shifting from written...
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Numeral Beginnings
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Dec. 26 op-ed column. George Will refers to Arabic numerals as the system of numeration that developed after the cumbersome Roman numerals. Actually, the so-called Arabic numerals are Hindu numerals, as they originated in India. Although...
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MIM? A.D. 1999 Brings a Classical Question for Legions in the Arena of Roman Numerals
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...incorrectly rendered in Roman numerals the year of its arrival, according...supplanted by the modern Arabic numerals around the 16th century. It...who has done a study of Roman numerals to help decipher old publishing...a theoretically long Roman numeral is shortened to manageable...
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Taiwanese Inventor Develops Numeral Lock Housing Structure
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...of Changhua County, Taiwan, has developed a numeral lock housing structure that includes a lock housing...of the two halves is formed with at least one numeral wheel window. At least one numeral wheel is mounted in the numeral wheel window...
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SOLVE THE NUMBER MYSTERY.(Roman numerals: quiz)
Magazine article from: Appleseeds
; ...500 M = 1,000 We use 10 numerals: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...used the seven letters as numerals. The Romans wrote their numbers by combining the numerals from left to right. They started with the largest numeral and ended with the smallest...
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Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) select Arabic numerals or visual quantities corresponding to a number of sequentially completed maze trials
Magazine article from: Learning & Behavior
; ...goal of the maze was an Arabic numeral 3, which corresponded to the...were given probe series of the numerals 2 and 4, and the remaining...were given probe series of the numerals 2 through 8. These probe series...intermixed with the familiar numeral 3 series. As was true during...
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 "Iran Times International (Washington, DC)")
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Now Arabic (Western) numerals are all the rage.(Islam: Muslims and the world)
Newspaper article from: Iran Times International (Washington, DC)
; ...of what English-speakers call Arabic numerals. The Interior Ministry has given each...are from the Farsi alphabet. But the numerals are Western. The Interior Ministry didn't start this, but the use of Western numerals by the government gives them an official...
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