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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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family family bible a bible designed to be used at family prayers, typically one with space on its flyleaves for recording important family events.
the family that prays together, stays together motto devised by Al Scalpone, a professional commercial-writer, and used as the slogan of the Roman Catholic Family Rosary Crusade by Father Patrick Peyton. The Crusade began in the US in 1942, and the slogan was apparently first broadcast on 6 March 1947, during the radio programme
Family Theater of the Air. The Crusade began in Britain in 1952, and the expression has since developed many, often humorous, variant forms.
selling off the family silver parting with a valuable resource for immediate advantage. The reference is to a speech by former British Conservative Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, to the Tory Reform Group in 1985 on privatization (the selling off of nationalized industries to private companies was likened to the sale of family assets by impoverished landowners, ‘First of all the Georgian silver goes…’)
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Prince of Wales to pour last drink
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; ; 687 words
; ...will polish off the last one today sometime in the late afternoon or evening. "This place has just been my family, my surrogate family, for literally 25 years," Whitely said. "I don't have the words to describe my feelings about the way...
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Exhibit features key era at SJSU
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...that hippie stuff," said Chuck Alexander, a football standout in the '50s. "Our value system was being solidified -- family, church, brotherhood." Black and white athletes at San Jose State mingled then, but not consistently. "After the game...
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Davis deals with off-court issues
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; ; 641 words
; ...night was anything but ordinary. Davis said that unspecified family problems had been distracting him since Christmas and blamed...I've got a lot of personal issues going on off the court, family problems, and I've let them get in the way. We've talked...
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Golden State gamble
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; 700+ words
; ...forces everyone to buy health insurance, whether they think they need it or not; it provides financial aid to low-income families, to help them bear the cost; and it imposes "community rating" on insurance companies, basically requiring them to sell...
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Tone of health care debate should take high road
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; 663 words
; ...than 100 percent of the federal poverty level ($20,000 for a family of four) would receive free Medi-Cal insurance. Low-income families ($20,000 to $50,000 for a family of four) would have to pay only between 3 percent and 6 percent...
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Let the great health care debate begin
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; 660 words
; ...who earn less than the federal poverty level ($20,000 for a family of four) would receive free Medi-Cal insurance. Low-income families ($20,000 to $50,000 for a family of four) would have to pay only between 3 percent and 6 percent...
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ACMC strives to provide quality, safe births
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 1/13/2007; 632 words
; ...move forward to produce the safest and happiest outcomes for mothers and their newborns. While we extend our sympathy to the families who were featured in the newspaper article, we also look forward to a time when the high quality Labor and Delivery program...
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St. John's to link with African sect
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 483 words
; ...I-80 Exit at Jeremy Ranch. Half its parishioners come from Summit County and another half from the Salt Lake area. Two families make the trek from Ogden, he said. For information about the Anglican Mission in America, see the Web site at www.theamia...
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Uniting as one
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/13/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Latter-day Saints, agnostics and atheists have all found a personal connection that doesn't depend on whether their families greet each other at church on Sunday, or any other day, for that matter. The Murphys aren't a faith-based organization...
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An Illness No One Understands: Tourette's Syndrome.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/19/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...skateboarding, in-line skating, movies, almost any kind of music except the heavy classical variety, Nintendo games and the family's black Labrador, Jessie. He quarrels at times with his older brother, Jeffrey, and badgers his parents for more money...
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Nigerian politician, president of Nigeria (2007-). Born into a family active in Nigerian political and military affairs, he was trained...then taught chemistry and later managed (1983-89) the large family farm. Yar'Adua entered political life in the late 1970s as...
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yerba buena
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...trailing evergreen perennial ( Micromeria chamissonis ) of the family Labiatae ( mint family). It is native to W North America and especially common to...division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Lamiales, family Labiatae.
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yew
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...T. brevifolia ), the English yew, and others. Taxol prevents breakdown of cell microtubules, consequently preventing cell division. Yew is classified in the division Pinophyta , class Pinopsida, order Coniferales, family Taxaceae.
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Yokuts
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...about 18,000; in 1990 it was under 3,000. The Yokuts, or Mariposan, languages are a branch of the Penutian linguistic family (see Native American Languages ). Bibliography: See H. F. Hughes, The Valley of the Yokuts (1940).
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Marguerite Yourcenar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...set in 16th-century Flanders; and Le Labyrinthe du monde (3 vol., 1974-88), a historical memoir of her own family. Bibliography: See biography by J. Savigneau (1993); studies by P. Horn (1985) and G. Shurr (1987).
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