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:" It's a Brand New Ballgame for Outsourcing Real Estate " John C. Maher, National Real Estate Investor, 1 July 2005.
:" And Haward wrought me, and Brand, priest ( s ).

:" and new
* Press Trust of India :" Inscription throws new light to Hindu rule in Afghanistan "
:" Do not imagine that the anointed King must perform miracles and signs and create new things in the world or resurrect the dead and so on.
" Following the Villanova-Carlisle game, The New York Times described the new passing game this way :" The passing was more of the character of that familiar in basket ball than that which has hitherto characterized football.
On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.
:" It gave a new impetus to reconstruction in Western Europe and made a decisive contribution to the renewal of the transport system, the modernization of industrial and agricultural equipment, the resumption of normal production, the raising of productivity, and the facilitating of intra-European trade.
:" In the absence of any new management action, that is, if boat mortality rates continue to increase at the rates observed since 1992, the situation in the Atlantic and Southwest regions is dire, with no chance of meeting recovery criteria within 100 years.
They opened trading posts and engaged in the " trade :" – a term which, under the Ancien Régime, means any type of trade ( wheat, pepper ivory …), and not necessarily, or only the slave trade, although this " infamous traffic ", as it was called at the end of the 18th century, was indeed at the heart of a new economic order, controlled by powerful companies in privilege.
According to the usual precedence rules, the unary message " new " is sent first, and then " label :" and " open " are sent to the answer of " new ".
:" new economic geography " by Anthony J. Venables.
:" Some of the faction of the Sicarion ... not content with having saved themselves, again embarked on new revolutionary scheming, persuading those that received them there to assert their freedom, to esteem the Romans as no better than themselves and to look upon God as their only Lord and Master " ( quoted by Eisenman, p 180 ).
:" A new table
:" In 1768, .. Bellman had begun to compose an entirely new sort of song.
:" Answering a fan question on how ADV perceives the threat and challenge presented by fansubbers, Matt answered that while fan subtitling is hurting the industry both in the US and in Japan, ' the industry has to learn and adapt to new technology, and has to find ways to work around it.
:" After several years Tan Wilcoxon appeared from the West Indies with a new wife Rosamund and it was decided to unite Harry and Owen with their father and new “ mother ”.
:" The preponderance of twins of like sex, does indeed become a new problem, because it has been formerly believed to be due to the proportion of identical twins.
" Thalberg was impressed and began grooming the new starlet the following day :" the studio arranged to fix her teeth, made sure she lost weight, and gave her an English tutor.
First described as an insignificant " gathering of the sick and poor " after World War II in early 1950s, the perception changed to " new religious movement ", which created a substantial impact in society, and with its world wide growth, described as the largest and most diverse Buddhist group :" With 12 million members in 192 countries, SGI is the world's largest Buddhist lay group and the largest, most ethnically diverse Buddhist school in America …”.”.
:" The writer's strong aversion to the infliction of new scientific terms upon the scientific public has, however, caused him to proceed with great circumspection.
Though in his Oct. 17th 1934 Rectorial Address delivered at St Andrews University he states that :" The new Tyranny, disguised in attractive patriotic colours, is enticing youth everywhere into its service.
:" You gotta hear this new box I got, it creates the most offensive noise ..." ( to Lester Bangs )
:" The proposed new offence of treason will be narrower than the existing offence.
The London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the day in 1665 that a barber had shaved his head and that he tried on his new periwig for the first time, but in a year of plague he was uneasy about wearing it :" 3rd September 1665: Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but darst not wear it because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it.

:" and ball
:" A boy of the name Ellis – William Webb Ellis – a town boy and a foundationer, ... whilst playing Bigside at football in that half-year, caught the ball in his arms.
:" The bombardiers with bomb and ball
:" All the fagots ( sissies ) will be dressed in drag at the ball tonight.
" A little ditty from Dom's playing days said :" Who hits the ball and makes it go?
One account described Dunlap's throwing prowess as follows :" ndless practice made him adept as a monkey at grabbing a sizzling ground ball in either hand and firing it off from the very spot he seized it.
:" Solid under the high ball, an outstanding goal-kicker and with a siege-gun boot that would almost inevitably find touch, Hastings was defensively strong, and came into the line with an impact which perhaps owed more to his stocky frame than great pace, but which was still extremely effective and served any team he played for in any conditions.
:" Indeed, he was often at his most dangerous collecting bad ball, when his ability to accelerate from a standing start, jinking and weaving and ducking under tackles, enabled him to split defences whose wit was not as sharp as his.
:" To be wrecked on the Casquets is to be cut into ribbons ; to strike on the Ortac is to be crushed into powder ... On a straight frontage, such of that of the Ortac, neither the wave nor the cannon ball can ricochet ... if the wave carries the vessel on the rock she breaks on it, and is lost ..."
:" WHEREAS it is necessary, in this time of danger, that the militia of this colony should be well regulated and disciplined ... And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every person so as aforesaid inlisted ( except free mulattoes, negroes, and Indians ) shall be armed in the manner following, that is to say: Every soldier shall he furnished with a firelock well fixed, a bayonet fitted to the same, a double cartouch-box, and three charges of powder, and constantly appear with the same at the time and place appointed for muster and exercise, and shall also keep at his place of abode one pound of powder and four pounds of ball, and bring the same with him into the field when he shall be required ... And for the better training and exercising the militia, and rendering them more serviceable, Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every captain shall, once in three months, and oftner if thereto required by the lieutenant or chief commanding officer in the county, muster, train, and exercise his company, and the lieutenant or other chief commanding officer in the county shall cause a general muster and exercise of all the companies within his county, to be made in the months of March or April, and September or October, yearly ; and if any soldier shall, at any general or private muster, refuse to perform the command of his officer, or behave himself refractorily or mutinously, or misbehave himself at the courts martial to be held in pursuance of this act, as is herein after directed, it shall and may be lawful to and for the chief commanding officer, then present, to cause such offender to be tied neck and heels, for any time not exceeding five minutes, or inflict such corporal punishment as he shall think fit, not exceeding twenty lashes ..." An Act for the better regulating and disciplining the Militia, April 1757

:" and game
:" And to what has the formula game thus made possible been successful?
:" But Brown and Whitman didn ’ t swing at the questions, instead choosing to stick to a game of political beanball trading jabs on Whitman ’ s housekeeper, a Brown aide ’ s “ whore ” remark and even verbal miscues.
:" For a listener who last heard the New Haven Symphony in the mid-60's, in a game but scrappy performance of Britten's War Requiem, its concert on Friday evening was a happy surprise.
:" After the game, Doby quickly showered and dressed without incident in the Cleveland clubhouse.
:" f the consent of the citizens is required in order to decide that war should be declared ( and in this constitution it cannot but be the case ), nothing is more natural than that they would be very cautious in commencing such a poor game, decreeing for themselves all the calamities of war.
:" The story is told of an automaton constructed in such a way that it could play a winning game of chess, answering each move of an opponent with a countermove.
In 1844 George Walker described Cochrane's approach to the game :" Mr. Cochrane is the most brilliant player I have ever had the honour to look over or confront ; not even excepting De la Bourdonnais ; and pity it is that his very brilliancy so often mars success.
:" a filthy pawn in Mister Giolitti's game of chess, and made out of the least dignified section of the bourgeoisie "
:" Craigdarroch, An Accessory to Murder " is an expansion set for the board game Kill Doctor Lucky
The Boston Daily Globe reported on the game as follows :" Bobby Lowe broke all league records with four home runs in succession, and then tied the record for total bases by adding a single, making a total of 17 bases.
" The Globe noted that the ease with which Lowe played the game led many to understate his value to the club :" For a grand player, Lowe is seldom given the credit often dished out to his inferiors.
:" I wanted to do something that would attract people's attention as I worked on the DOA game.
:" I want people to remember DOA as a game that was very aggressive and combative.
:" Forasmuch as there is great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls from which many evils may arise which God forbid ; we command and forbid, on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city in the future.
* " Who's the Fool :" A game show featuring two contestants listening to humorous stories from Engvall, Foxworthy, and Larry the Cable Guy, then deciding whether or not the story is true.
:" Exotheism " is a fictional denomination in the Vampire: The Requiem role-playing game.
:" It was tough for me to see that every time I made a new game, people automatically assumed that a sequel was coming ," said Sakurai, in an interview with Nintendo Dream, two weeks after he resigned from HAL Laboratory.
:" The supply of game for London is going steadily up.
:" looking back at the history of the game, there is a temptation to view world-class attacking full-backs in the same way as the local bus ; you wait for ages, and then two come along at once!
:" Calder's ability to use his drive, determination and innate knowledge of the game to overcome his undoubted shortcomings-in particular he was always a bit slow for an out-and-out open-side-helped him become one of the most effective back-row operators of the modern era.
Kup is one of eight playable characters in the 1986 Commodore 64 video game Transformers: The Battle to Save the Earth. he is also mentioned in the DS version of transformers war for cybertron in the first level when the player walks near a display board he appears as a dialog box saying the occasional cybertronian greeting :" ba weep granna weep ninny bong " and is also mentioned when ironhide says " yeah but that can be Kup's problem ".
* " Old Smokey :" In addition, cadets of the TAMUK Army ROTC the “ Old Smokey ” cannon during every home game.

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