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A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
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case. 1. Solid frame of a door or window.
2. Wooden covering of anything, e.g. a girder.
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Strong And Simple As A "Shadow On The Ground"
Transcript from: NPR Fresh Air; 11/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...his inflections. He's a pro at making small adjustments depending on his material. And that material is very good in this case, a song Hand wrote that allows for the maximum, howling dissolution and poignancy. (Soundbite of song, "Floor to Crawl...
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Virginia Governor Denies Clemency For Sniper
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...head as he put gas in his car in Manassas, Virginia. Willett was one of three prosecutors assigned the case. Mr. WILLETT: In many murder cases in local jurisdictions such as this, the victims are often time part of the criminal element themselves...
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Cubans Warily Test Their New Freedom To Criticize
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...to produce more. MIROFF: Major changes to Cuba's one-party system are not on the discussion agenda. That was also the case in 2007, the last time Cuban leaders asked for public input. Since then, the government has made limited reforms, but Cuba...
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Wounds Of Post-Election Violence Still Raw In Kenya
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/10/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...MICHELE NORRIS, host: And I'm Michele Norris. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court wants to build a case in Kenya against the people who instigated last year's post-election violence. More than a thousand people died in ethnic...
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2 Ex-Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers Acquitted
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 11/10/2009; ; 510 words
; ...are disappointed by the outcome in this case. But the jurors have spoken." Speaking...government wins the majority of white-collar cases that it chooses to pursue. So analysts...prosecutors to hesitate in bringing a similar case against other Wall Street figures. For...
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INNOCENCE PROTECTION ACT:RUSS FEINGOLD
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 585 words
; ...amountof compensation that the federal government must pay in cases of wrongfulconviction, the IPA contains important reforms that...conviction DNA testing, conducting a systematic reviewto identify cases where such testing could be beneficial. This is no smalltask...
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INNOCENCE PROTECTION ACT:BARRY MATSON
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...testimony of the victimsbuilt a rock solid case that I prosecuted. He had two experienced...defended him vigorously. Their fee in thatone case was more than most prosecutors make in...After a lengthy pre-trial period, the case was set for trial.After many days of...
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INNOCENCE PROTECTION ACT:ANDRE DE GRUY
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...particularly in death penalty cases call in to question theconstitutionality...Those 11 are just the cases that were able to meetthe...tried a death penalty case and thedirect appeal was...Project on Mr. Brewer`s case. Our efforts not only...In addition to these cases my officehas had 2 ...
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H1N1 AND PAID SICK DAYS:DEBRA L. NESS
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...virus is nowso widespread that the CDC and World Health Organization are no longerkeeping track of the number of individual cases. Officials estimate if30 percent of the population contract the virus, it could mean approximately90 million people in the...
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H1N1 AND PAID SICK DAYS:SCOTT GOTTLIEB, MD
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 11/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...There also doesn`tseem to be a compelling public policy case for singling out this particularflu from others - many of which...domesticvaccine manufacturing facilities, which in at least two cases put us behindother countries in getting vaccine orders filled...
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Catholicism
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...celibacy the state of being single or unmarried, especially in the case of one bound by vows not to marry. —celibate, n...of the Jesuit order of priests. 2. Disparaging, lower case. casuistry or equivocation. Also Jesuitry . —Jesuitic...
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Grammar
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...RHETORICAL DEVICES . antiptosis the substitution of one grammatical case for another, e.g., use of the nominative where the vocative...words of which at least one does not agree in logic, number, case, or gender, as in Pope’s line “See Pan...
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Marriage
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...x2014;bigamist , n. —bigamous , adj. celibacy the state of being single or unmarried, especially in the case of one bound by vows not to marry. —celibate , n., adj. celibatist an advocate of celibacy. cicisbeism the practice...
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Dow, Herbert H.
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1884, Dow remained close to home for college, enrolling at Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, which later became Case Institute of Technology and finally Case Western Reserve University. His major was chemistry, and during his time...
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Kalashnikov, Mikhail
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Kazakhstan. Won National Competition In 1943, Soviet arms engineers created a new gun cartridge—the cylindrical case that holds an explosive charge along with ammunition and is inserted into a gun— and asked him to develop a prototype...
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