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early the early bird catches the worm someone who is energetic and efficient is most likely to be successful; saying recorded from the mid 17th century.
It's the second mouse that gets the cheese is a modern humorous extension.
Early English denoting the earliest stage of English Gothic church architecture, typical of the late 12th and 13th centuries and marked by the use of pointed arches and simple lancet windows without tracery.
the early man never borrows from the late man someone who has made their preparations has no need to turn to someone less efficient; the usage is generally applied to the practice of sowing seed early. The saying is recorded from the mid 17th century.
early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise proverbial saying, late 15th century, linking a healthy and sober lifestyle with material success.
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BI Incorporated Updates Voice Verification System - BI VoiceID.
PR Newswire; 12/19/2002; 700+ words
; ...BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- BI Incorporated announced today that it has added several important features to BI VoiceID, an automated voice verification...alternative for monitoring low-risk offenders. BI VoiceID offers such an alternative, at...
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BI Incorporated Releases BI Cellular(TM); System Allows for Wireless 'House Arrest' When No Phones Available.
PR Newswire; 2/10/2003; 700+ words
; ...BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- BI Incorporated unveiled an important new electronic...when no telephone service is available. BI Cellular(TM) is a wireless home detention system that combines with BI's premiere home detention equipment to...
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BI-Tech Solutions and Tek-Tools Partner to Deliver a High-Performance Storage Resource Management Solution to the UK Market.
Business Wire; 6/17/2002; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2002 BI-Tech Solutions, Europe's leading vendor...enterprise storage resource management (SRM). BI-Tech will become the first UK distributor...the Storage Profiler suite will enable BI-Tech to offer customers a range of software...
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BI-LO stands out in hotbed of competition.(Ahold USA Inc.)
Magazine article from: MMR; 3/25/2002; 700+ words
; ...C. -- Having been acquired in 1977, BI-LO Inc. is the senior chain in Royal...fastest-growing areas of the country. BI-LO also operates in some of the most fiercely...of competition has made it essential for BI-LO to differentiate itself effectively...
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BI/Query 5.0 Empowers Hummingbird's New Business Intelligence Solution
PR Newswire; 7/27/1998; 700+ words
; ...releases the newest version of its enterprise query and reporting application, Hummingbird BI/Query, its flagship business intelligence (BI) product. BI/Query (formerly Hummingbird GQL) features the industry's only graphical ad hoc query...
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BI AND CINCINNATI MICROWAVE FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE, AND MERGE GUARDIAN TECHNOLOGIES INTO BI
PR Newswire; 3/30/1992; 700+ words
; BI AND CINCINNATI MICROWAVE FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE, AND MERGE GUARDIAN TECHNOLOGIES INTO BI BOULDER, Colo., March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- BI Inc. (NASDAQ: BIAC) and Cincinnati Microwave Inc. (NASDAQ...
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BI-LO/USO Team Up to Support Troops; Supermarket to Donate Up to $50,000.
PR Newswire; 3/26/2003; 700+ words
; ...S.C., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- BI-LO supermarkets will join with the USO...April 29, Operation Goodie Bag will allow BI-LO customers and Associates to assist...the supplies approved by the USO. Every BI-LO supermarket will have a list available...
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BI-LO Boosters Donates Over $371,000.
PR Newswire; 8/15/2000; 700+ words
; ...a shopper card-based donation program, BI-LO, Inc. has announced the recipients of over $371,000. BI-LO BOOSTERS, the company's BONUSCARD...1700 BONUSCARD(R) shoppers to sign up for BI-LO BOOSTERS and their total donation for...
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BI Incorporated Announces Contracts Valued at $6.1 Million Continued Expansion of Electronic Monitoring, Misdemeanant Services And Treatment Programs Introduction of the Next Generation, State-Of-The-Art Electronic Monitoring Equipment.
PR Newswire; 4/13/2000; 700+ words
; ...BOULDER, Colo., April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- BI Incorporated (Nasdaq: BIAC), the leading...professionals the HomeGuard 200(TM), BI's next generation of electronic monitoring...Tulare County, California, has been a BI customer for the past ten years. A recent...
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Bi-Lo announces restructuring; chain will sell or close 116 stores in Southeast.
Newspaper article from: Times and Democrat (Orangeburg, SC); 5/5/2005; 700+ words
; May 5--Orangeburg's Chestnut Street Bi-Lo announced Wednesday it will remain open as part...strategy to improve operations. The parent company of Bi-Lo groceries, Bi-Lo LLC, Wednesday said it plans to sell or close 116...
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Hana-Bi
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
HANA-BI (Fireworks) Japan, 1997 Director: Takeshi...main character in Takeshi Kitano's Hana-Bi might be the hero of a generic Hollywood cops...emissaries now are calling for a payback. In Hana-Bi, the characters of Nishi and Horibe are laden...
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Unconscious as Infinite Sets: An Essay in Bi-Logic, The
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
...UNCONSCIOUS AS INFINITE SETS: AN ESSAY IN BI-LOGIC, THE In The Unconscious as Infinite Sets: An Essay in Bi-Logic , a major work published in 1975...unconscious as infinite sets: An essay in bi-logic . London: Duckworth. Bibliography...
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Shaʿbi Family
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
SHA ʿ BI FAMILY Prominent Yemeni clan. Originally...Faysal Abd al-Latif al-Sha ʿ bi were prominent in the origins of the Yemeni...assassinated. Qahtan al-Sha ʿ bi died in 1976, but other members of the family...
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bi-
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
bi- repr. L. bi- (earlier dui- = Gr. di- , Skr. dvi- ) twice, doubly, two-, in L. chiefly in adj. formations on sb. stems, as BICEPS , bicolor of two colours, also with pp. ending, as biformātus of two forms; in...
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Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya ( c. 713–801 (AH 95...in Islam to be considered the actual equal of men. Her name Rābiʿa means ‘fourth’; she was the fourth daughter...
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