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Neil Jordan
JORDAN, Neil Nationality:Irish. Born:Sligo County, Ireland, 25 February 1950. Education:Read History and literature at University College, Dublin. Career:Formed Irish Writers' Co-op, 1974; had his first collection of short stories, Night in... Read more |
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Mandatory
MANDATORY Peremptory; obligatory; required; that which must be subscribed to or obeyed. Mandatory statutes are those that require, as opposed to permit, a particular course of action. Their language is characterized by such directive terms as "shall" as opposed to "may." A mandatory provision is... Read more |
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Westminster Assembly
Westminster Assembly, 1643. Set up by the Long Parliament to reform the English church, it consisted of 30 members of both houses and 121 ministers of varying opinions. Though most members favoured presbyterianism, a forceful minority of independents, to Scottish astonishment, opposed it. The Scots,... Read more |
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Directory
Directory group of five men who held the executive power in France according to the constitution of the year III (1795) of the French Revolution . They were chosen by the new legislature, by the Council of Five Hundred and the Council of Ancients; each year one director, chosen by lot, was to be... Read more |
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Flint Ink Corp
Flint Ink Corporation 4600 Arrowhead DriveAnn Arbor, Michigan 48105U.S.A.Telephone: (734)622-6000Fax: (734)622-6060Web site: http://www.flintink.com Private CompanyIncorporated: 1920 as Howard Flint Ink CompanyEmployees: 3,500Sales: $1.2 billion (1999 est.)NAIC: 32591 Printing Ink... Read more |
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Hannah Glasse
Hannah Glasse , fl. 1747, writer of a popular English cookbook, Art of Cookery (1747). She is also credited with writing The Compleat Confectioner and The Servant's Directory, both published in 1770.... Read more |
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Standard Poors Corp
STANDARD & POOR'S STANDARD & POOR'S (S&P) was created by the 1941 merger and incorporation of Poor's, a financial publishing company founded by Henry Varnum Poor in 1867, and Standard Statistics Bureau, a publisher of daily indexes for ninety stocks that its founder, Luther Lee Blake,... Read more |
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pathway
Pathways The name of a number of esoteric and New Age periodicals. Among them are Pathways, a British directory which provides a concise listing of New Age and psi events, organizations, periodicals, and meetings in England. It is published quarterly at 16 Great Ormond St., London, WC1N 3RB,... Read more |
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando 1924-2004, American film actor, often described as the greatest of his generation, b. Omaha, Nebr. Regarded as the foremost practitioner of "method" acting as taught by American disciples of Constantin Stanislavsky at New York's Actor's Studio, the young Brando combined a rough... Read more |
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Brumaire
Brumaire , second month of the French Revolutionary calendar . The coup of 18 (actually 18-19) Brumaire (Nov. 9-10, 1799), engineered chiefly by Sieyès, overthrew the Directory and established the Consulate under Napoleon. It nearly failed because of Napoleon's inept conduct at the... Read more |
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1988 L.A. lists just released by Los Angeles Business Journal.
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PORTS OF INDIANA SELECTED FOR INTERNATIONAL HONORS
...three of the top 50 awards...Port of Los Angeles and Halifax...advertising, directory and website...AdPort of Los Angeles - "This...Cuyahoga County Port Authority...members, ... |