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Charles Loring Brace
Brace, Charles Loring (1826-1890) Founder in 1853 of the New York Children's Aid Society (CAS) Read more |
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Comets
Comets Comets are objects—relatively small compared to planets—that are composed of dust and ices of various compounds. Comets orbit the Sun in elongated elliptical (eccentric, elongated circle) or parabolic orbits. Accordingly, these objects spend the majority of time in the outer... Read more |
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blastopore
blastopore A mouth-like opening of the archenteron on the surface of an embryo in the gastrula stage. In many animals the blastopore becomes the anus, although in some it closes up at the end of gastrulation and may appear again at or near the same site. The blastopore is formed by an inward... Read more |
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Casper
Casper: Recreation Sightseeing A sightseeing tour of Casper would start where the town started—at the convergence of the multiple travel routes to the West. The National Historic Trails Interpretive Center accurately portrays the experiences of emigrants who traversed the... Read more |
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periodic table
periodic table chart of the elements arranged according to the periodic law discovered by Dmitri I. Mendeleev and revised by Henry G. J. Moseley . In the periodic table the elements are arranged in columns and rows according to increasing atomic number (see the table entitled Periodic Table... Read more |
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Yiddish Art Theatre
Yiddish Art Theatre (New York). Founded in 1918 by Maurice Schwartz at the Irving Place Theatre, it eventually moved to a fine, new theatre built for it on Second Avenue. Yiddish theatre historian Nahma Sandrow, noting Schwartz's insistent pragmatism, observed that the organization was “as... Read more |
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Cambrex Corp
Cambrex Corporation One Meadowlands PlazaEast Rutherford, New Jersey 07073U.S.A.Telephone: (201) 804-3000Fax: (201) 804-9852Web site: http://www.cambrex.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1981 as CasChem, Inc.Employees: 1,852Sales: $484.2 million (2000)Stock Exchanges: New YorkTicker Symbol:... Read more |
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Edouard Claparede
Claparède, ÉdouardWORKS BY CLAPARÈDEÉdouard Claparède (1873–1940), Swiss psychologist, was born in Geneva. His choice of a career was decisively influenced by his cousin, Theodore Flournoy, also a psychologist, and his uncle, Édouard Claparède, a zoologist. After attending secondary school in... Read more |
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Palmdale
Palmdale city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. Established from two communities that were settled in the 1870s and 80s, Palmdale took... Read more |
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Montebello (United States)
Montebello city (1990 pop. 59,564), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a growing residential and industrial suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1920. A wide variety of products are manufactured in Montebello, and there are oil wells.... Read more |
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THE PRIVATE-BANKING BOOM; Where the Money Is; As Ranks of the Rich Grow, the...
...problems of the wealthy. Our society...growth in most banking areas, including...But one banking business...hotter: private banking. Also known...financial industry eager to...economic boom in the ... |
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Private banking offers increasing opportunities.
...private banking industry, it is the...offering private banking services...cyclical booms and busts...investment banking. Second...market for private banking ... |
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BUSINESS ANALYSIS: Ahead of the curve: How the super rich made money despite...
...fortunes of the wealthy. But, even...their number, grow by 3 per cent...joined the ranks of HNWIs...technology boom - saw this...times for the wealthy since the...sophistication that the wealthy employ to...A whole ... |
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Malls hit a privatizing Vietnam; Economic reforms have yielded an annual...
...in Asia. The boom reflects what...worry that the wealthiest Vietnamese are...their incomes grow most rapidly...labor-intensive industries as footwear and...offshore and ranks as the country...changing." The banking system is ... |