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Heidrick Struggles International Inc
Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc. Sears TowerDepartment CSP233 S. Wacker DriveSuite 4200Chicago, Illinois 60606-6303U.S.A.(312) 496-1200Fax: (312) 496-1200Web site: http://www.h-s.com Public CompanyIncorporated : 1953Employees : 750Sales : $329 million (1998)Stock Exchanges :... Read more |
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Michael English
Michael English Singer, songwriter For the Record … Healing Struggled for Re-acceptance Selected discography Sources From prodigal son to pariah and back again, Michael English has been successful in both the contemporary Christian and pop music industry. English Read more |
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International Ladies Garment Workers Union
INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION INTERNATIONAL LADIES GARMENT WORKERS UNION (ILGWU), founded in 1900, a major factor in American labor, radical, socialist, and Jewish history. The first leaders of the ILGWU, moderate Jewish socialists and labor veterans, were the victorious survivors of... Read more |
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Industrial design
Industrial Design. As industrialization accelerated and consumer goods proliferated after 1865, competition forced manufacturers to focus on product appearance. Ordinary citizens aspired to comfort, even luxury: patent furniture, lush domestic interiors, eclectic mail‐order goods. New... Read more |
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport city (1990 pop. 141,686), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on Long Island Sound; inc. 1836. Long a chief industrial city in Connecticut, it makes electrical appliances, transportation equipment, clothing, ammunition, metal products, wiring devices, machinery, helicopters, motor vehicles, and... Read more |
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Zutphen
Zutphen , city (1994 pop. 31,309), Gelderland prov., E central Netherlands, on the IJssel River. It is an administrative, industrial, and commercial center. Zutphen was chartered in 1191 and was an important Spanish stronghold during the Dutch struggle for independence (16th cent.). Philip Sidney ... Read more |
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Cities and towns
Towns URBANIZATION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION SOCIAL AND SPATIAL STRUCTURES BIBLIOGRAPHY Towns have usually accommodated great social diversity, making them places of magnificent human achievements as well as sometimes-violent struggles over resources and power. The words town and city are... Read more |
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Pearl (China)
China For the fighting in China, see Chiang Kai-Shek, China–Burma–India theatre, and China incident.1. IntroductionThe China incident, or Sino-Japanese war, which began with a minor skirmish at the Marco Polo Bridge near Peking on 7 July 1937, was the true beginning of the Second... Read more |
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Rebecca
Rebecca ( Rebekah). Wife of Isaac and one of the matriarchs of Israel. According to aggadah, while she was pregnant, whenever she passed a house of Torah study, Jacob struggled to get out, but when she passed a temple containing idols, Esau struggled to get out. She was buried in the cave of... Read more |
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Patrick Victor Martindale White
Patrick Victor Martindale White Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912-1990) was the first Australian to win the Nobel Prize for literature. He used religious experience and symbolism to show man's struggle to transcend the "dreary, every day life." Patrick White was born in London on... Read more |
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Yorkshire
...from desolation to sheep-run—Rievaulx abbey...of York, that the struggle for precedence...mechanization changed cottage industry into the harshness of...the iron and steel industry, all experiencing massive...county badly, but both industry ... |
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Wiltshire
...Salisbury plain, given over to sheep. On the western fringes...there was a domestic cloth industry, described by Defoe in his...was a centre of Alfred's struggles against the Danes. The first evidence...parts of the county. The cloth industry found ... |
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Gloucestershire
...but the Cotswold pastures had proved ideal for sheep, and a flourishing cloth industry had established itself around Stroud and Dursley...obstacle until the Great Western gave up the struggle in 1872. The Worcester to Oxford line, passing... |
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Greece
...cold and suitable only for sheep grazing. One-third of the...Economy Both agriculture and industry are important to the Greek economy...respectively, and after a prolonged struggle it was Sparta who by 404 had...comparatively minor parts in the power ... |
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Iran
...insurance, and most industries have been nationalized...revolution. The chief industries are mining, machinery...and rice, and rearing sheep and cattle, has not yet been...and a confused power-struggle, Hashemi Rafsanjani... |
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Uruguay
...plain (pampas) supporting cattle and sheep. In the centre and north-east the...processing and textiles are the principal industries.History Uruguay was inhabited by various...military junta in ARGENTINA and led a struggle for Uruguayan independence until occupied... |
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Wiltshire
...Salisbury plain, given over to sheep. On the western fringes...there was a domestic cloth industry, described by Defoe in his...was a centre of Alfred's struggles against the Danes. The first...parts of the county. The cloth industry found competition from ... |
 "The Billings Gazette (Billings, MT)")
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Sheep industry struggles
...Sweet Grass County's surge in sheep wasn't torn down until 1980...legacy, a metaphor for the industry that built it. It's taken...plying the river with flies than sheep grazing the valley. Barely 10,000 sheep remain. Virtually none of the... |
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ANGER AS EUROPE CHOPS CASH AID FOR SHEEP CULL; UPHILL STRUGGLE: Farmers'...
SCOTLAND'S hard-pressed sheep farmers hopes of a rescue plan have...was a huge blow to the struggling sheep industry. Finnie told MSPs: "My officials...important to convey this bad news to our sheep farmers now so that they do not hold... |
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Sheep sector is facing an uphill struggle
...address the problems facing the sheep sector, which has seen the...realignment of support for the industry in the hills and uplands will...resources to lend support to its sheep producers as a result of an...problem with this being paid to sheep farmers. In ... |
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SIX YEARS AGO I TOLD OF A LINK WITH SHEEP AND BSE, BUT NO ONE LISTENED; as...
...common and appears in only one sheep in 100,000. It induces trembling...The fact is that cows and sheep may still be picking up the...the likelihood that meat from sheep is also infected may double...this but it has been a massive struggle trying to interest ... |
 "The Columbian (Vancouver, WA)")
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SHEEP RANCHERS A VANISHING BREED
...nationally known in the sheep industry and served one term in...named Nick began raising sheep here in 1922 after saving...been good. For Colorado sheep ranchers, lamb prices...optimism. As those raising sheep struggle to ... |
 "The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)")
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SHEEP CHEESE IS CURDLING COMPETITION TO PROVIDE DAIRY FARMERS A NEW CASH COW
...While other dairy farmers struggle to survive, Ken Kleinpeter...secret? His cash cow is sheep. Kleinpeter is general...Chatham is the largest sheep dairy in the United States...demand, growth of the sheep cheese industry is limited by a ... |
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MAKE WAY FOR SHEEP CHEESE
...Slotter feeds a newborn sheep on the Old Chatham Sheepherding...While other dairy farmers struggle to survive, Ken Kleinpeter...secret? His cash cow is sheep. Kleinpeter is general...demand, growth of the sheep cheese industry is limited b |
 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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Struggle goes on for many Welsh farmers; David Lloyd on how production costs...
...their compensation payments to quit an industry in which the average farmer earned less...need for a drastic restructuring of an industry which some prophets of gloom regard as...300 and those farming lowland cattle and sheep holdings found themselves in a negative... |
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It's a tough job, but ewe know the sheep MOT makes sense
...estimated to lose the sheep industry pound(s)31 million...The cure is to pare the sheep's hooves to expose...like zinc sulphate. Sheep do best in arid conditions...Australia, and sometimes struggle with Scotland's wet... |
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SHEEP PLAY ROLE IN RESTORING PARK FOR TOURISTS
...It's a constant struggle to maintain the overgrown...she hopes to graze the sheep through November in several...re hopeful that using sheep will prove to be an excellent...historic ambiance." The sheep also add to the peace...lot of potential. Many ... |
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