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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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lac dark-red resin, red dye. XVI (
lack(e),
lacca).—(through Du.
lak, F.
laque, or Sp., Pg.
laca, It.
lacca) Hind.
lākh :- Prakrit
lakkhā- :- Skr.
lāk⋅āc. Cf.
LAKE2.
SHELLAC.
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MILLE LACS SIZZLES; Fishing hot on top walleye lake.(SPORTS)(Dennis Anderson)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/9/2002; 700+ words
; ...Dennis Anderson; Staff Writer Mille Lacs, Minn. -- Amazing things happen every...Minnesota's premier walleye lake, Mille Lacs. Consider: - Reports of 50 or more walleyes...Some walleyes caught and released on Mille Lacs have been re-caught moments later. Some...
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Mille Lacs decision raises many questions.(SPORTS)(Dennis Anderson)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/3/2001; 700+ words
; ...s decision Thursday to narrow the Mille Lacs walleye harvest slot from 16-20 inches...The action was taken to ensure the Mille Lacs sport-angler walleye catch doesn't...pounds this year. Harvest quotas on Mille Lacs and other east-central Minnesota lakes...
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LAC MINERALS' BOARD URGES SHAREHOLDERS TO REJECT ROYAL OAK'S OFFER
PR Newswire; 7/18/1994; 700+ words
; TORONTO, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Lac Minerals Ltd. (NYSE: LAC) today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously...unsolicited offer of Royal Oak Mines Inc. to purchase all of Lac's outstanding common shares for Royal Oak securities...
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Mille Lacs walleye limit is criticized; Hearing produces opposition to treaty-related restrictions.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 3/5/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...than 16 inches long. A 15-inch Mille Lacs walleye weighs about 1 pound. The Mille Lacs Band, with the Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa in northern Minnesota...harvest up to 40,000 pounds of Mille Lacs walleye this year. That figure might...
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Mille Lacs walleye issue bubbles to surface.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 5/30/1998; ; 700+ words
; If the subject is Mille Lacs walleyes, the Minnesota Department of Natural...when DNR fisheries officials met with Mille Lacs resort owners to try to mend fences over what some in the Mille Lacs area believe have been public relations miscues...
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LAC TO OPPOSE ROYAL OAK'S APPLICATION REGARDING SHAREHOLDER PROTECTION RIGHTS PLAN
PR Newswire; 8/12/1994; 692 words
; TORONTO, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Lac Minerals Ltd. (NYSE: LAC) today said that it had been advised that Royal Oak Mines...have the effect of precluding the issue of securities of Lac under Lac's Shareholder Protection Rights Plan in connection...
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Mille Lacs Ojibwe Win Lakes Association Board Seats
Newspaper article from: Circle, The; 9/30/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...mid-August, a block of Mille Lac Ojibwe members and their allies...on the board of the Lake Mille Lacs Association (LMLA), the primary...litigation against the Mille Lacs band of Ojibwe. The organization is also the sponsor of the Mille Lacs Tea Party, an anti-Indian...
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Mille Lacs tribal member disagrees with media stereotype of
Newspaper article from: Ojibwe News, The; 9/2/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Hill Ojibwe News, The 09-02-1994 Mille Lacs tribal member disagrees with media stereotype...of the gambling casino industry on the Mille Lacs Ojibwe Indian reservation in 1991, the Mille Lacs Reservation Tribal Council immediately embarked...
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LAC RECOMMENDS REJECTION OF REVISED ROYAL OAK OFFER
PR Newswire; 8/11/1994; 700+ words
; TORONTO, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Lac Minerals Ltd. (NYSE: LAC) today announced that its Board of Directors has determined...revised offer of Royal Oak Mines Inc. to purchase all of Lac's outstanding common shares is inadequate and not in...
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LAC Minerals announces record earnings.
PR Newswire; 2/6/1989; 700+ words
; LAC MINERALS ANNOUNCES RECORD EARNINGS TORONTO, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- LAC Minerals Ltd. (NYSE: LAC) today announced record earnings and gold production for the year ended Dec. 31, 1988. Gold production increased to a record 319,407...
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LacéPéde, Bernard-Germain-Étienne De La Ville-Sur-Illon, Comte De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lac É P É de, Bernard-Germain...Seine, France, 6 October 1825) zoology. Lac é p è de was the only son of...and the former Marie de Lafond. Teh name Lac é p è de was take from a maternal...
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lac
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
lac resinous exudation from the bodies of females of a species of scale...twigs. The twigs are scraped to remove the incrustation; this crude lac material is known as stick lac. If the stick lac is crushed, the wood splinters and other foreign...
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Lac operon
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences
Lac operon The operon that controls the synthesis...metabolism of lactose in Escherichia coli . The Lac operon is a cluster of structural genes specifying...during the late 1950s and early 1960s; the Lac operon DNA was isolated in pure form in 1969...
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Fond du Lac
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fond du Lac , city (1990 pop. 37,757), seat of Fond du Lac co., E central Wis., in a resort region at the south...it became an industrial city. Marian College of Fond du Lac and a branch of the Univ. of Wisconsin are there.
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Lac
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms
Lac a great number; specifically, 100,000. Examples: lac of islands, 1881; of pagodas, 1692; of rupees, 1613; of years, 1613.
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