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Seven and companies
Seven of the eight companies that turn out full lines of farm machinery say sales by their dealers since the start of August have shown gains averaging nearly 10% above last year.
Seven Japan Railways Group companies, once state-owned until 1987, cover most parts of Japan.
* Seven Sisters ( oil companies ), a group of oil companies
Seven horse trams operated in Melbourne, three lines were built by the Melbourne Tramway & Omnibus Company ( MTOC ), while the other four were built by different private companies.
However, the conflict between the two companies continued by proxy during the interval before the outbreak of the Seven Years War, with British and French forces fighting on behalf of rival claimants to the thrones of Hyderabad and the Carnatic.
The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies.
Seven major companies issued a report in 1990 saying they felt vaporware had hurt the industry's credibility.
To break the oligopoly of the ' Seven Sisters ' ( a term he coined to refer to the dominant oil companies of the mid-20th century ), Mattei initiated agreements with the poorest countries of the Middle East and countries of the former soviet bloc as well.
Mattei coined the term " Seven Sisters " to refer to the dominant oil companies of the mid-20th century.
Seven companies have sponsored the club, thus appearing on the player's shirts, over the course of its history.
It is also home to many mid-sized and smaller companies like Seven Corners Inc, and The Rough Notes Company.
Two companies would offer the first really reliable sports cars: Austin with the Seven and Morris Garages ( MG ) with the Midget.
The Seven would quickly be " rodded " by numerous companies ( as the Type 1 would be a generation later ), including Bassett and Dingle ( Hammersmith, London ); in 1928, a Cozette blower was fitted to the Seven Super Sports, while Cecil Kimber fitted an 847 cc Minor engine, and sold more Midgets in the first year than MG's entire previous production.
" The Seven Sisters, the great oil companies and the world they made ".
The Battle of Seven Oaks ( known to the Métis people as la Victoire de la Grenouillière, or the Victory of Frog Plain ; also known as the Seven Oaks Massacre ) was a violent confrontation between the Hudson's Bay Company ( HBC ) and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies on June 19, 1816, climaxing what was a long dispute in western Canada.
Seven airline companies, including Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific and Air Philippines, serve the province.
The " Seven Sisters " was a term coined in the 1950s by businessman Enrico Mattei, then-head of the Italian state oil company Eni, to describe the seven oil companies which formed the " Consortium for Iran " cartel and dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
Prior to the oil crisis of 1973, the members of the Seven Sisters controlled around 85 % of the world's petroleum reserves, but in recent decades the dominance of the companies and their successors has declined as a result of the increasing influence of the OPEC cartel and state-owned oil companies in emerging-market economies.
The head of the Italian state oil company, Enrico Mattei sought membership for the Italian oil company Eni, but was rejected by what he dubbed the " Seven Sisters "-the Anglo-Saxon companies which largely controlled the Middle East ’ s oil production after World War II.
However, in recent decades the dominance of the Seven Sisters and their successor companies has been challenged by the following trends:

Seven and were
Strong men with strong opinions, frank to the point of being refreshingly indiscreet, the Founding Seven were essentially congenial minds, and their agreements with each other were more consequential than their differences.
The Seven Founders were completely dedicated to the public service.
Seven battle flags and fourteen officers' swords were sent to Thomas' headquarters.
Seven of the prisoners were sentenced to be confined in irons for as long as it pleased the court, set to work and, if they broke jail or proclaimed heresy, to be executed if convicted.
He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.
Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.
Among these actions were the Seven Years ' War, the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, the First and Second Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, the New Zealand land wars, the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, the First and Second Boer Wars, the Fenian raids, the Irish War of Independence, its serial interventions into Afghanistan ( which were meant to maintain a friendly buffer state between British India and the Russian Empire ), and the Crimean War ( to keep the Russian Empire at a safe distance by coming to Turkey's aid ).
Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.
Following the Seven Years ' War, empty Acadian lands were settled first by New England Planters and then by immigrants brought from Yorkshire.
Carved into the temple were three phrases: ( gnōthi seautón = " know thyself ") and ( mēdén ágan = " nothing in excess "), and ( eggýa pára d ' atē = " make a pledge and mischief is nigh "), In ancient times, the origin of these phrases was attributed to one or more of the Seven Sages of Greece,
Some of the most critically acclaimed drama films in Asian cinema were produced during the 1950s, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ) and Seven Samurai ( 1954 ).
Seven legions were sent from Rome, led by Vespasian's brother-in-law Quintus Petillius Cerialis.
All of the original Seven Ecumenical Councils as recognized in whole or in part were called by an emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and all were held in the Eastern Roman Empire.
Among the stuntmen for the film were members of the Seven Little Fortunes, including Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung.
Many of the most critically acclaimed Asian films of all time were produced during this decade, including Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ), Satyajit Ray's The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) and The Music Room ( 1958 ), Kenji Mizoguchi's Ugetsu ( 1954 ) and Sansho the Bailiff ( 1954 ), Raj Kapoor's Awaara ( 1951 ), Mikio Naruse's Floating Clouds ( 1955 ), Guru Dutt's Pyaasa ( 1957 ) and Kaagaz Ke Phool ( 1959 ), and the Akira Kurosawa films Rashomon ( 1950 ), Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Throne of Blood ( 1957 ).
The first Freikorps were recruited by Frederick II of Prussia in the 18th century during the Seven Years ' War.
These included Vishnu Sarma's Panchatantra, the Hitopadesha, Vikram and The Vampire, and Syntipas ' Seven Wise Masters, which were collections of fables that were later influential throughout the Old World.
Seven people were killed in the coup, although Ríos Montt survived to found a political party ( the Guatemalan Republic Front ) and to be elected President of Congress in 1995 and again in 2000.
Group portrait of the Seven Bishops whom James ordered imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1688, but who were acquitted of charges of seditious libel.
When the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Sancroft, and six other bishops ( the Seven Bishops ) wrote to James asking him to reconsider his policies, they were arrested on charges of seditious libel, but at trial they were acquitted to the cheers of the London crowd.

Seven and selected
Glenn was a combat aviator in the Marine Corps and one of the Mercury Seven, who were the elite U. S. military test pilots selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) to operate the experimental Mercury spacecraft and become the first American astronauts.
Seven years later, in 1776, an expedition led by Juan Bautista de Anza selected the site for the Presidio of San Francisco, which Jose Joaquin Moraga would soon establish.
* Scott Carpenter, one of the original Mercury Seven NASA astronauts selected in 1959 for Project Mercury
One of the Seven Principles was declaration of an " Open Process " whereby OSF staff would create Request for Proposals for source technologies to be selected by OSF, in a vendor neutral process.
The Betty Boop series continues to be a favorite of many critics, and the 1933 Betty Boop cartoon Snow White ( not to be confused with Disney's 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ) was selected for preservation by the U. S. Library of Congress in the National Film Registry in 1994.
Seven students were selected to serve as Supreme Court of Canada Clerks in 2001-2, three in 2002-3, six in 2003-4, five in 2004-5, eight in both 2005-6 and 2006-7, six in 2007-8, five in 2008-2009, six in 2009-2010, five in 2010-2011, seven in 2011-2012, and six in 2012-2013 ; there are only 27 such clerkships offered each year.
* Deke Slayton-Donald Kent " Deke " Slayton ; selected as one of the first Mercury Seven Astronauts.
Foreseeing this development, Smith had provided a means for selected priesthood holders to reorganize his church at an appropriate future time: a " Quorum of Seven.
Seven players, originally selected for the 1985 Ashes tour, had signed for the Hughes-led " rebel " team and withdrew from the squad.
As the sole commercial television station in the region, GLV's program lineup included local output such as news and children's programs, combined with programs selected from Melbourne's commercial stations-the Seven Network ( HSV-7 ), Nine Network ( GTV-9 ) and from 1964, Network Ten ( ATV-0, later ATV-10 ).
Roy and HG were not selected by Channel Seven to cover the Beijing Olympics because of security concerns and the belief by Channel Seven management that the style of their coverage-going to air live following a day's events-would not have suited Australian audiences given Australia's time zones.
Seven substitutes are permitted to be selected, from which three can be used in the duration of the game.
Mercury Seven was the group of seven Mercury astronauts selected by NASA on April 9, 1959.
Illustrations included in selected editions of Countee Cullen's Caroling Dusk ; * James Weldon Johnson's God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse ; and Alain Locke's New Negro.
Hogestyn was among the 30 selected, and his first starring role was on the prime time series Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.
Following the CBBT's opening in 1964, it was selected by the American Society of Civil Engineers ( ASCE ) as " One of the Seven Engineering Wonders of the Modern World " in a worldwide competition that included more than one hundred major projects.
" The building was selected in 2003 by the Preservation League of New York State as one of its " Seven to Save " endangered properties ( view newsletter ).
Their popularity and recognition of their work increased significantly after 2006, when one of their songs was selected as an insert song in the final episode of the award-winning anime Eureka Seven, probably because one of their former members Jun Kitagawa collaborated with " Eureka 7 " scriptwriter Dai Sato on the soundtrack of Macross Plus.
Hurst had been selected as the World Series Most Valuable Player until the Mets rallied to win the game with three runs, forcing a decisive Game Seven.
Like Mansell, Patrese was having problems with the gearbox in his Williams, and when it selected neutral midway through Turn Seven, it caused him to spin out of second place.
He was voted the Seagram's Seven Crowns of Sports Offensive Lineman of the Year Award in both 1978 and 1980 and was the winner of the NFLPA-Coca-Cola Offensive Lineman of the Year Award ( selected by a vote of NFL players ) for four straight years ( 1978 – 81 ).
Seven finalists are selected for this award.

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