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Ran
RAN France-Japan, 1985 Director:Akira Kurosawa Production:Greenwich Film Productions (Paris)/Herald Ace/Nippon Herald Films (Tokyo); in color, Dolby Stereo; running time: 160 minutes; length: 14,435 feet. Released 1985. Executive producer:Katsumi... Read more |
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Freeport-McMoRan Inc
Freeport-McMoRan Inc. 1615 Poydras StreetNew Orleans, Louisiana 70112U.S.A.(504) 582-4000Fax: (504) 585-3265 Public Company Incorporated: 1981Employees: 7,250Sales: $1.5 billionStock Exchanges: New YorkSICs: 1479 Chemical and Fertilizer Mining, Not Elsewhere Classified; 1475 Phosphate Rock;... Read more |
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Pheidippides
Pheidippides , fl. 490 BC, semilegendary Athenian courier sent to Sparta to request help when the Persians landed at Marathon. He ran 150 miles in two days. At the conclusion of the battle, he ran the 22 mi (35 km) back to Athens, where he reportedly shouted "Rejoice! We conquer!" and then died... Read more |
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William Dodd
William Dodd 1729-77, English author. At one time king's chaplain, he ran heavily into debt, forged a bond, and was sentenced to death. Dr. Johnson led a movement to obtain clemency, but Dodd was executed. His best-known work is The Beauties of Shakespeare (1752).... Read more |
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Fosse Way
Fosse Way , Roman road in England. It apparently ran from Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) NE past Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium Dobunnorum), and Leicester (Ratae Coritanorum) to Lincoln (Lindum). It intersected Watling Street.... Read more |
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Spithead
Spithead eastern part of the channel between Hampshire, England, and the Isle of Wight. In 1797 a celebrated wartime mutiny occurred in the fleet stationed at Spithead: the crews sent the officers ashore, ran the ships by committee, and won their demands for better wages and working conditions.... Read more |
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Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown (Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr.), 1938-, American political leader, b. San Francisco. The son of Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown (1905-96), governor of California (1959-67), Brown abandoned early ideas of entering the priesthood and obtained a law degree (Yale, 1964). He entered California politics... Read more |
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Fernando Cardoso
Fernando Henrique Cardoso Brazil inaugurated Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), a world-renowned sociologist, president in 1995. Cardoso's success in that office prompted a constitutional amendment to allow him to run for a second term in 1998. Fernando Henrique Cardoso's political... Read more |
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Solomon Franklin Smith
Smith, Sol[omon Franklin] (1801–69), actor and manager. He was born on a farm in Norwich, New York, but raised in nearby Solon and at the age of twelve ran away, walking three hundred miles to join his brothers in business in Boston. In 1819 he ran away from the business and made his acting... Read more |
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Edward Harrigan
Harrigan, Edward (1844–1911), actor, producer, librettist, and lyricist. Born in New York, where he originally apprenticed in the shipbuilding trade, he ran away from home and sailed to San Francisco. Although he had appeared briefly as a youngster with Campbell's Minstrels, Harrigan made his... Read more |
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Clay, Henry
...hawks’ who favoured the War of 1812. He ran for president (1824), and when the...Adams. One of the founders of the Whigs, he ran against Andrew Jackson (a bitter political enemy) in 1832. He ran for president again (1844) but was defeated... |
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Barry, Thomas
...to act as manager first at the Bowery Theatre and later again at the Park. From 1848 to 1851 he ran Boston's National Theatre and subsequently ran the Broadway in New York, the new Boston Theatre, and houses in Cincinnati and Chicago. Walter... |
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Olympic Theatre
...8 Oct. of that year as the Olympic under Mrs John Wood, who ran it until 1866. Among later productions were A Midsummer Night...s famous pantomime Humpty-Dumpty, which opened in 1868 and ran for 483 performances. In 1872 the theatre became a home of variety... |
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Run
...s Les Romanesques, which opened at the Off-Broadway Sullivan Street Playhouse in 1960, was still running in the 1990s. The musical A Chorus Line ran for 15 years and the musicals Fiddler on the Roof and Grease each ran for eight years. |
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sail training
...Up to the First World War (1914–18) some American states ran sea schools in vessels lent by the US Navy for boys intent on...the race the Sail Training Association (STA) was formed and ran races, at first every other year and then annually from 1964... |
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Social Security
...their elderly relatives. Charities and state welfare boards ran out of money. States with old‐age pensions tightened eligibility requirements...Social Security enjoyed overwhelming popular support. The system ran surpluses as long as the ratio of workers to beneficiaries was... |
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Strand Theatre
...Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot opened in 1971 and despite poor reviews ran there until moved to the Garrick Theatre in 1982. Stoppard's The Real...that year, and in 1989 Much Ado about Nothing and Chekhov's Ivanov ran in repertory. |
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Warren, Earl
...and was “soft” on criminals. In 1938 Warren successfully ran for attorney general of California, a post he held until 1942...governor, Warren seemed headed for some national office. He ran as the Republican vice‐presidential candidate with Thomas... |
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Burma Road
...Map 19). Built by 200,000 Chinese labourers, it was completed in 1938, and ran from Kunming in Yunnan province to Wanting in China where it joined the road that ran from there, through Lashio, to Mandalay and Rangoon. After Japan had captured... |
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commissars
...lowliest platoon; and in every unit where they served, they ran party cells whose activist members acted as guardians over the...of-war. But it was aimed realistically at the element which ran the Soviet war-machine. There is some controversy over the... |
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ran
ran / ran/ • past of run. |
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RAN
RAN abbr. Royal Australian Navy. |
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Ran
Ran ♂ (Scottish) Short form of the various names beginning with this syllable, for example, Ranald and Ranulf. |
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also-ran
al·so-ran • n. a loser in a race or contest, esp. by a large margin. ∎ an undistinguished or unsuccessful person or thing. |
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Göran
Göran ♂ Swedish variant of Örjan. |
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Jöran
Jöran ♂ (Scandinavian) Variant of Örjanalso Jörn. |
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sparáran na scillinge
sparáran na scillinge. See CLURICAUNE. |
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Sādhāran Brahmo Samāj
Sādhāran Brahmo Samāj (reforming Hindu movement): see SEN, KESHUB CHUNDER; BRAHMO SAMĀJ. |
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Tarn Tāran
Tarn Tāran (Pañjābī, ‘means of crossing ocean of life to salvation’). A Sikh shrine. Tarn Tāran lies 20 km. south of Amritsar. Here Gurū Arjan Dev constructed a gurdwārā in honour of Gurū Rām Dās and a pool whose water reputedly cures leprosy. |
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Malan, Daniel F(rançois)
Malan, Daniel F(rançois) (1874–1959) South African statesman. Rising to prominence in the National Party in Cape Province, he was elected to Parliament in 1918. His political thinking was dominated by desire for secession from Britain and republicanism. He was Prime Minister (1948–54), and |
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run
run • verb 1. she ran across the road synonyms: sprint, race...it, barrel. 2. the robbers turned and ran synonyms: flee, run away, run off, run...out, take a powder, make tracks. 3. he ran in the marathon synonyms: compete, take... |
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behind
...tree synonyms: at the back/rear of, beyond, on the far/other side of, in back of.antonym: in front of. 2. a guard ran behind him synonyms: after, following, at the back/rear of, (hard) on the heels of, in the wake of.antonym: ahead... |
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flop
...in someone's face.antonym: succeed. • noun informal the play was a flop synonyms: failure, disaster, debacle, catastrophe, loser; informal washout, also-ran, dog, lemon, nonstarter, clinker, turkey.antonym: success. |
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juice
juice • noun 1. the juice from two lemons synonyms: liquid, fluid, sap; extract; nectar. 2. informal he ran out of juice on the last lap synonyms: energy, power, stamina, steam. |
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lickety-split
lickety-split • adverb they ran out of here lickety-splitsynonyms: at full speed, very quickly, on the double, as fast as one's legs can carry one, at a gallop, headlong, pell-mell, hell-bent for leather, like the wind, like a bat out of hell, at full tilt. |
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loser
loser • noun synonyms: runner-up, also-ran, the defeated, the vanquished, failure, born loser; inf. flop, dud, washout, lemon. |
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sand
sand • noun she ran across the sand synonyms: beach, sands, shore, seashore; (sand) dunes; literary strand. |
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thrill
...tingle; fun, enjoyment, amusement, delight, joy; informal buzz, high, rush, kick, charge. 2. a thrill of excitement ran through her synonyms: wave, shiver, rush, surge, flash, blaze, tremor, quiver, flutter, shudder, frisson. • verb... |
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cover
...overlay, dusting, film, sheet, veneer, crust, skin, cloak, mantle, veil, pall, shroud. 5. panicking onlookers ran for cover synonyms: shelter, protection, refuge, sanctuary, haven, hiding place. 6. there is considerable game cover... |
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funk
funk • noun he was in a funk because his wife ran out on him synonyms: a (state of) depression, a bad mood, a low, the dumps, the doldrums, a blue funk. |
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Buttered Popcorn: 'Ran's survey says
...save the world. Do they? Of course!`Ran says?I really, really hope this works...Comic Dave Chappelle helps out, too.`Ran says?This will be something to check out...Anthony Hopkins in a dark, actioncomedy.`Ran says?Curiosity has me with this one... |
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Shulamit Ran Leads Masses To New Music
...115-$130 (312) 435-6666 Shulamit Ran has been writing music almost from the moment...in the classical music world has heard of Ran, who at 43 is entering her fourth year...Couperin" and the Brahms Second Symphony. Ran will discuss "Legends" at a Meet the Music... |
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Visualization of a Ran-GTP gradient in interphase and mitotic Xenopus egg...
Because of the chromosomal localization of the Ran--guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) RCC1...chromosome condensation 1) and the cytoplasmic localization of Ran-GAP (Ran--guanosine triphosphatase--activating protein... |
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Here comes Mr. Ran. (altruism signified by an allegorical character) (Column)
...authenticated, eyewitness sighting of Mr. Ran happened last July. Perhaps I've seen...white. My wife and I decided that Mr. Ran came in two parts that day, because two...required to get those nuts loose. Mr. Ran changes shapes a lot, so being in two bodies... |
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Antisense expression of an Arabidopsis ran binding protein renders transgenic...
We cloned a cDNA encoding an Arabidopsis Ran binding protein, AtRanBP1c, and generated transgenic Arabidopsis...AtRanBP1c gene to understand the in vivo functions of the Ran/Ran/RanBP signal pathway. The transgenic plants showed enhanced... |
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Requirement of guanosine triphosphate-bound Ran for a signal-mediated nuclear...
...for the guanosine triphosphatase (GTPase) Ran in NES-mediated export. Nuclear injection of a Ran mutant ([Th.sup.24] [right arrow] Asn...export but not import, whereas depletion of the Ran nucleotide exchange factor RCC1 blocked protein... |
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Elevations in Ran/TC4 Confer Costimulatory Functions to Tumor Cells.
Gene transfer-mediated elevations in Ran/TC4 expression confer costimulatory functions...the Netherlands Cancer Institute analyzed Ran/TC4 as a protein regulating T-cell costimulation ("Functional Analysis of Ran/TC4 as a Protein Regulating T-Cell Costimulation... |
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Systems analysis of Ran transport. (Reports).(Statistical Data Included)
...be approximated if the steady-state flux of Ran is known, because at least one molecule of Ran is translocated in each direction for each complete...to estimate the steady-state flux rate for Ran in intact cells and to identify factors that... |
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Understanding the relations between RAN letter subtest components and word...
...1994), and rapid automatized naming (RAN) ability (Denckla & Rudel, 1976; Wolf...phonological awareness tasks, has resulted in RAN's being nominated as the second core deficit...many differing skills, so the nature of RAN, the hypothesized second core deficit in... |
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'Dybbuk' opera fulfills a dream for composer Shulamit Ran.(Time Out)
...a lifetime - will come to fruition tonight for Shulamit Ran. Ran, who has won just about every honor available to a composer...and Lee Freeman Sr. Composer-in-Residence Program. Ran, who has held composer-in-residence appointments at... |
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