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cruiser
cruiser Warship – smaller, lighter and faster than a
battleship – ranging in size from 7500 to 21,000 tonnes. After World War I, arms limitation treaties restricted its guns to 200mm (8in). Since World War II, cruisers have replaced battleships as the major warships of a modern navy.
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Cruiser Provides Operations Update.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 9/27/2005; 700+ words
; ...27, 2005 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) -- Cruiser Oil & Gas Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:COG) ("Cruiser" or the "Company") provides the following operations update; Blackstone Area Cruiser's first well in Blackstone, Alberta has...
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Cruiser cruise set for Nov. 22
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 10/12/2003; 700+ words
; ...nothing like a PT Cruiser owner," Marinelli...preview of concept PT Cruisers, historical Chrysler...power of various PT Cruisers at the drag strip, including the PT Cruiser GT model with a...as well as PT Cruisers equipped with the...
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Cruiser Provides Yearend Operations Update.
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 12/23/2005; 700+ words
; ...Dec 23, 2005 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) -- Cruiser Oil & Gas Ltd. ("Cruiser" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:COG...following operations update; Blackstone Area Cruiser's first well in Blackstone, Alberta, resulted...
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Turbo Cruisers roar into River Front
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 9/20/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...The new Turbo Cruiser also looks a bit...different from the other Cruisers, designer Kenneth...000 Chrysler PT Cruisers have been sold worldwide. The Turbo Cruiser will be assembled...plant where all Cruisers are manufactured...
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PT Cruiser aims at new niche
Magazine article from: Automotive Industries; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...categorize?" To some, the Chrysler PT Cruiser brings to mind classic American "woody...London taxi Whatever image it evokes, the Cruiser is turning heads and leading many industy...year away from production. If the PT Cruiser lives up to expectations, it co yield...
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Connectware announces Cruiser 2.0/3.0 which offers significant enhancements for user productivity -- product currently in beta testing --.
Business Wire; 3/5/1996; 700+ words
; ...Connectware Inc., an AMP company, announced Cruiser 2.0 and 3.0, enhanced versions of its...Designed for the "Virtual Office" worker, Cruiser 2.0 is a 16-bit software application and Cruiser 3.0 is a 32-bit application that takes...
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PT Cruiser was everywhere at automotive trade show.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 11/10/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...now offers several PT Cruiser packages. These include...snowboard carriers for PT Cruisers are offered through...Consider the Vavoom Setzer Cruiser, which was created...The Paddy and Rescue Cruisers by Energy Release Products...fun. They show what a Cruiser might look like as a...
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POLICE CRUISERS GOING RETRO TREND IS RETURN TO BLACK AND WHITE IN EFFORT TO STAND OUT REGION IN EFFORT TO STAND OUT, CRUISERS RETURNING TO BLACK AND WHITE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/9/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...traditional black and white cruisers made popular by the Los Angeles...official looking, but the cruisers either blended in too much...that there wasn't ever a cruiser in their neighborhood. They...reflective lettering. "The old cruisers were causing a lot of confusion...
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City cruisers needed a push in the snow // Unchained melody of spinning tires
Newspaper article from: Sunday News Lancaster, PA; 12/8/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...get chains on their cruisers in early afternoon...News photographed a cruiser leaving the garage with...officer said the city's cruisers had all-season radials...said he found only one cruiser with studded snow tires...employee said some of the cruisers had studded tires and...
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FJ Cruiser joins Toyota's lineup as affordable, off-road-friendly offering
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 6/21/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...showrooms this spring is the 2007 FJ Cruiser. Priced between Toyota's stalwart RAV4 and Highlander models, the FJ Cruiser has been designed to appeal, in eye...According to reviewer Ann M. Job, the FJ Cruiser's overall length and width rival...
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Cruisers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
Cruisers. Successor to...frigate, the cruiser inherited the...sustained program of cruiser construction...successes of American cruisers (most famously...which limited cruiser size and armament. The six battle cruisers were scrapped...
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cruiser
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
...usually known as cruisers. The one essential...detached for duty as a cruiser was a good sailing...armour, and light cruisers with virtually no...1922 limited the cruiser to 10,000 tons...heavily armoured cruisers of 10,000 tons...all-gun heavy cruiser, Salem , in 1947...
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auxiliary cruisers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
...intercepted by British armed merchant cruisers she outfought them and actually...of them brought the British cruiser Cornwall , which sank her on...largest of the German auxiliary cruisers, sank several ships en route...encountering the Australian cruiser Sydney off the West Australian...
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Confederate cruisers
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Confederate cruisers in U.S. history, warships constituting the South's...for adjudication. But in the course of the war some 18 cruisers, known as Confederate cruisers, were engaged in this activity. Only eight achieved results...
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armed merchant cruisers
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
armed merchant cruisers, British and Dominion liners, varying in size from 6,267 tons to...November 1940; and of the ships which engaged the German auxiliary cruiser Thor at different times during her first cruise, two were outfought...
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