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secretary bird
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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sec·re·tar·y bird
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a slender, long-legged African bird of prey (Sagittarius serpentarius) that feeds on snakes, having a crest likened to a quill pen stuck behind the ear.
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'I owe a lot to Tucson,' rocker says: Bittersweet memories of Old Pueblo inspire Secretary Bird's Mike Semple.
Newspaper article from: AZ Daily Star (Tucson, AZ); 3/29/2007; 700+ words
; ...Semple's three-piece rock act, Secretary Bird, will perform Friday night at...primarily by Semple, the songs on "Secretary Bird" were inspired in part by...Concert is Friday --What: Secretary Bird CD release party with Mostly...
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Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph; 3/6/2003; ; 455 words
; ...great managing director is a great secretary - it's a devil of a job, but someone...peel off the mundane exterior of the secretary's world and show us the exotic creatures...nerdish filing clerk and from pregnant secretary to tatty little temp. Some of the...range of comic voices. We learn what ...
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Secretary health-Bird flu.
News Wire article from: PPI - Pakistan Press International; 2/3/2008; 387 words
; ...This was stated by Provincial Secretary health Tariq Ayub while speaking...measures for the prevention of bird flu in the province. We would...Livestock Department about bird flu. Doctors at hospitals...ready for the treatment of bird flu if reported, Secretary...deputed to examine incoming ...
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SEN. CONRAD QUESTIONS HEALTH SECRETARY ON BIRD FLU PREPAREDNESS
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 3/1/2006; 519 words
; ...Conrad today questioned U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services...the growing threat of avian "bird" flu and the Administration...World Health Organization, bird flu, officially known as H5N1, has spread to birds in Asia, Africa and Europe...S. sees its own case of bird flu. Health ...
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Ag Secretary Says Bird Flu Easily Found
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/7/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Dateline: WASHINGTON Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns, left, accompanied...tell within four hours if a bird is possibly infected with bird flu _ but it still will take...Mike Johanns said Tuesday. Bird flu hasn't yet reached North...but testing of migrating wild birds has begun in an ...
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Health secretary warns about bird flu; Michael Leavitt says that the likelihood of a flu pandemic in the future is 'very high'
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 10/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Monday...s plan of action against bird flu and that a draft of a comprehensive...first line of defense against bird flu, and encouraged strengthening...developed a vaccine based on bird flu samples from Vietnam...said they found the disease ...
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U.S. health secretary: Second bird flu vaccine in the works
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/6/2006; ; 464 words
; ...to protect people from bird flu because the virus that is spreading among birds in Asia and Europe has...million doses of an earlier bird flu vaccine, but it...Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said Monday...least 174 human cases of bird flu, including 94 deaths...contact ...
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U.S. Health Secretary: Second bird flu vaccine in the works
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/6/2006; ; 230 words
; ...2006 Dateline: ATLANTA Federal health officials have authorized development of a second bird flu vaccine, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced Monday. The government has been developing a vaccine based on a sample...
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The secretary bird, Swansea grand theatre
Newspaper article from: South Wales Evening Post; 8/9/2007; 518 words
; It is easy to see why this play by William Douglas Home - brother of Tory Prime Minister Alec - was such a critical and commercial success during its heyday in the Swinging Sixties. Very much a counterpoint to the perceived permissiveness of the decade, this is best described as a comedy of morals.
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Secretary Johanns Asks for Bird Flu Funding
News Wire article from: AP Online; 12/21/2005; ; 390 words
; ...prepare for the possibility of a bird flu outbreak, Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said Wednesday...considering $3.8 billion for bird flu preparedness in a defense...Johanns told the AP. The secretary also indicated the government...
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Secretary Bird
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Secretary Bird The secretary bird ( Sagittarius serpentarius ) is the...falcons, and the osprey. The secretary bird is native to sub-Saharan Africa...their principal foods. Secretary birds are large birds, standing as tall...
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secretary bird
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
secretary bird common name for a long-legged African bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, related...century male secretary. The bird hunts on foot, zigzagging toward...and other reptiles. Secretary birds are classified in the phylum Chordata...
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Migratory Bird Conservation Act of 1929
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...for use as migratory bird reservations, and necessary...frequented by migratory birds and under the administration of the Secretary of the Interior, including...established the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission...sanctuaries for migratory birds and water fowl, upon the recommendation ...
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Bird, Rose Elizabeth
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
BIRD, ROSE ELIZABETH Rose Elizabeth Bird served as the first woman on the California...appellate courts in the United States. Bird became a controversial figure during...Brown appointed Bird to his cabinet as secretary of agriculture. She spent most of...
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Bird, J(ames) Malcolm (1886-1964)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Bird, J(ames) Malcolm (1886...occurred in 1922. He was then secretary of a committee investigating...Scientific American on which Bird was an associate editor. The...Conan Doyle 's recommendation, Bird was sent to Europe to collect...
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