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Crescent moon
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Crescent moon (Arab.,
al-qamar). Religious emblem of Islam, derived from the Quranic (e.g. 36. 39) recognition of the waxing and waning of the moon as a sign of God's unchanging purpose and control.
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Crescent Operating Announces Agreements for the Sale of Investments and the Infusion of New Capital.
Business Wire; 6/29/2001; 700+ words
; ...Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 2001 Crescent Operating, Inc. ("Crescent Operating" or the "Company") (OTCBB:COPI...definitive agreement ("Sale Agreement") with Crescent Real Estate Equities Company ("Crescent REIT...
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Crescent Delivers Full-Service Property Web Sites to Its Office Customers.
Business Wire; 10/16/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 2002 Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (NYSE...company has begun rolling out online Crescent Customer Centers, full-service property...buildings under its management or ownership. Crescent began the roll-out process with The...
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Crescent Operating, Inc. Announces Settlement Agreement With Crescent Real Estate Equities Company.
Business Wire; 2/14/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2002 Crescent Operating, Inc. (OTCBB: COPI.OB) ("Crescent Operating" or the "Company") announced...an agreement (the "Agreement") with Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (NYSE:CEI...
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Crescent Announces Strategic Transformation to Pure Play Office REIT.
Business Wire; 3/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...Earnings Results FORT WORTH, Texas -- Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (NYSE...November 1, 2006. Based on that review, Crescent has designed a plan that will simplify...Properties and assets to be sold include Crescent Resort Development and Desert Mountain...
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Crescent Financial Corporation and Centennial Bank Announce Approval of Merger.
PR Newswire; 7/24/2003; 700+ words
; The following is a joint press release issued today by Crescent Financial Corporation and Centennial Bank: Crescent Financial Corporation, Cary, NC ("Crescent") and Centennial Bank, Southern Pines, NC ("Centennial") announced...
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Crescent Announces Ownership in Broadband Office, Inc.; Crescent Receives Equity Interest and Royalty Income in Exchange For Access to Office Properties.
Business Wire; 10/7/1999; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 7, 1999-- Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (NYSE...office properties across the country. Crescent received its equity interest and representation...for granting Broadband Office access to Crescent's office property portfolio. In addition...
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Crescent Operating Signs Purchase Agreement for Healthcare Assets.
Business Wire; 2/16/2000; 700+ words
; ( BW)(TX-CRESCENT-OPERATING)(COPI) Crescent Operating Signs Purchase Agreement for Healthcare Assets...WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 16, 2000 Crescent Operating, Inc. (NASDAQ:COPI) (&uot;Crescent...
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Crescent expedites internet-enabled applications for visual basic developers.
Business Wire; 10/23/1995; 700+ words
; ...Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) today announced Crescent Internet ToolPakx, a new product designed...utilities. Unlike other Internet tools, Crescent Internet ToolPak shields users from low...operate seamlessly within Visual Basic, Crescent Internet ToolPak is event-driven...
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Crescent Announces Two Investments in California; Crescent Picks up Co-Development Office Opportunity and Additional Mezzanine Investment.
Business Wire; 6/20/2005; 700+ words
; FORT WORTH, TX -- Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (NYSE...in California. In Orange County, Crescent has committed to co-develop a 260...Hines. In a separate transaction, Crescent invested $20 million in a mezzanine...
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Crescent Announces Management Re-Organization.
Business Wire; 9/28/1999; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 28, 1999-- Crescent Real Estate Equities Company (NYSE...reorganization is to more efficiently execute Crescent's operating strategies, to better...President and Chief Executive Officer of Crescent stated, "As part of refining our strategic...
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Fertile Crescent
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Fertile Crescent The term Fertile Crescent refers to part of the ancient Near East that has been considered...Early World . As originally designated by Breasted, the Fertile Crescent is an arc or semicircle that included the relatively well...
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Fertile Crescent Unity Plans
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
FERTILE CRESCENT UNITY PLANS Post – World War...area of Arab Asia known as the Fertile Crescent. This followed the dismemberment of...Palestine, and Transjordan). The Fertile Crescent was a conceptual broad arc from Basra...
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Red Crescent Society
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
RED CRESCENT SOCIETY Name of the International Red...Ottoman officials requested that a red crescent, instead of a red cross, be used to...accepted by the society in 1929. The Red Crescent Society is part of the International...
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crescent
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
crescent. 1. Building or series of buildings of which...promenade. The earliest examples are the Royal Crescent, Bath (1767–75), by Wood the Younger , and the semicircular Crescent at Buxton, Derbys. (1780–90...
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crescent-and-mushroom
Book article from: A Dictionary of Earth Sciences
crescent-and-mushroom A two-dimensional outcrop pattern, produced by the superposition of two fold systems, whose forms resemble alternating crescents and mushrooms. The pattern is sometimes called ‘dome-crescent-mushroom’. See INTERFERENCE PATTERN .
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