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boom
boom. 1. A spar used to extend the foot of a sail, or to which the foot is attached. In square-rigged ships, studding sails are set on studding-sail booms extended from the ends of the yardarms. Such booms (including booms temporarily rigged at deck level to extend the clews of the lower sails)... Read more |
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Galata
GALATA District of Istanbul on the north bank of the Golden Horn. A Genoese settlement in the Byzantine era, Galata was officially incorporated into the city of Constantinople (now Istanbul) only in 1840. It continued through the nineteenth century to be the section of Constantinople where... Read more |
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Grande Prairie
Grande Prairie , city (1991 pop. 28,271), W Alta., Canada, NW of Edmonton. It is the chief business center for the Peace River valley farming area. The discovery of oil and natural gas in the region in the late 1970s led to a short boom which dramatically increased the city's population. The... Read more |
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Business forecasting
BUSINESS FORECASTING BUSINESS FORECASTING is an estimate or prediction of future developments in business such as sales, expenditures, and profits. Given the wide swings in economic activity and the drastic effects these fluctuations can have on profit margins, it is not surprising that business... Read more |
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Recessions
Business CyclesI. GeneralArthur F. BurnsBIBLIOGRAPHYII. Mathematical ModelsTrygve HaavelmoBIBLIOGRAPHYI GENERALEconomic change is a law of life. Nowadays, we commonly associate economic instability with business booms and recessions, and we have become accustomed to speaking of these vicissitudes in... Read more |
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Ethel Merman
Ethel Merman 1908-84, American musical comedy star, b. Astoria, N.Y., originally named Ethel Zimmerman. Merman's theater debut was in George and Ira Gershwin 's Girl Crazy (1930). Noted for her brassy, booming voice, she appeared on Broadway in Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Madam (also the... Read more |
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Standard Oil Company
Standard Oil Company Sources Background.In the 1850s a new industry emerged when refiners discovered that refined petroleum (which up until that point had been bought chiefly for its supposed medicinal properties) made an ideal fuel for lamps. (It would not become... Read more |
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spinnaker
spinnaker. 1. A three-cornered lightweight sail which is normally set forward of a yacht's mast, with or without a boom, to increase sail area with the wind aft of the beam.The name of the sail seems to have come from the time it was first hoisted in a race in June 1865 aboard the yacht Niobe,... Read more |
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gallows
gallows. 1. A raised wooden frame consisting of two uprights and a cross-piece on which the skid booms of a square-rigged ship rested. See also booms. 2. A temporary wooden structure, also known as a boom crutch, erected on the counter of small fore-and-aft-rigged sailing craft on which the main... Read more |
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Dot-Com
DOT-COM At the most basic level, "dot-com" is simply a colloquial term born of the suffix appended to Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), as in www.companyname.com. But the term has come to stand for a variety of phenomena. By the early 2000s it stood for Internet-based businesses, the business craze... Read more |
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Cafe in Mumbai is defiantly returning to normal Business is booming at a...
...defiantly returning to normal Business is booming at a terrorist targetByline...bang of an exploding grenade. The gunmen never entered...unmistakable. The attackers' grenade had blasted a fist...tables down from the grenade hole. "It's no different... |
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Pirates, Inc.: Inside the booming Somali business.(WORLD)
...with a Kalashnikov rifle, a grenade, and outsized hope. They...Ocean. The brains behind this business - which raked in an estimated...captured by cameras. Piracy is booming off the coast of Somalia...industry, worthy of a Harvard Business Review profile. The face of... |
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Somali pirates find booming business
...boat hijacked this week by pirates firing rocket-propelled grenades and a Dubai-flagged cargo ship seized while carrying food...armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank rocket launchers and grenades, according to the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia. Somalia... |
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Merchants of death: in a booming business, small-arms brokers make a killing.
...the nearly 1,500 documents they found detailing Minin's business in drugs, oil and lumber. And guns. Lots of guns. Among...purchase from Cherny of Kalashnikov rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, night-vision goggles and other equipment, as well as five... |
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Iraqis Buying and Hoarding Guns, Grenades
...questions about his arms business. After much coaxing...describes his trade as "booming." "I get numerous...pistol, a rifle or a grenade, and it's same day...rocket-propelled grenades and other similar weapons...rocket-propelled grenades) grenades and howitzers," said... |
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Brewpubs quench Bogota's thirst for normalcy; Business is booming a year...
...when rebels tossed hand grenades, killing one person...defiance didn't last. Business slumped.And now comes...later, the microbrewery business in Bogota is booming - more so than anywhere...entrepreneur. His first business, a paintball field...proved his undoing. The grenade attacks ... |
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Armored car dealers stalk a booming market Status symbols for the...
...growth industry, with booming markets in Iraq, Afghanistan...Balkans added to the business, the war in Iraq has...by rocket-propelled grenades occur regularly in Iraq...cars are a referral business. They do not advertise...Bondian mystique to the business.The best publicity... |
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Political Statement: Booming Business
Designers are in an explosive mood. Surplus hand grenades are turning up as candle lamps, in basic military metal or plated with silver or gold. "Grenades are such interesting-looking shapes," says New York designer Piet Houtenbos, "but... |
 "The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)")
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COMPANY ENJOYS BOOMING BUSINESS [Corrected 09/28/05]
...said of why he got into the business. "It's just not in my...munitions, from aerial bombs to grenades and mortar rounds. It also...Yet they're still a small business, one reason UXB chose Blacksburg...historically underutilized business zone," based on a combination...These "HUBZones" help small ... |
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Black Watch load up with some deadly souvenirs; Market is booming in trophies...
...enough working parts to put one back into business condition," he said. "The Iraqi conscripts...prized item is the rocket-propelled grenade launcher, a shoulder-fired weapon...Alexander, runs a landscape gardening business back in Perth. He's proud of us and... |
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