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Taken private, in 1985, by then CEO Nicolas Hayek, with the understanding of the Swiss Banks and the financial assistance of a group of Swiss private investors, it was renamed SMH in 1986, and ultimately Swatch Group Ltd in 1998.
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Taken private in the late 1990s in conjunction with his brother-in-law, the company is now involved in light manufacturing, property investments, financial services and architectural signage
Taken together, the house had 360 rooms, was five storeys high and was considered by many to be the greatest private house in the country.
Taken and 1985
* Vatten över huvud taget (" Water above Head Taken ") ( 1985 )
* Taken in Stride ( 1985 )
Taken and by
It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith as The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon upon Plates Taken from the Plates of Nephi.
Taken alone, they rarely cause severe complications in overdose ; statistics in England showed that benzodiazepines were responsible for 3. 8 % of all deaths by poisoning from a single drug.
Taken in Queensland, Australia circa 1900, horse drawn carriage built by A E Roberts Carriage Works.
In 1847 his first Salon success came with the exhibition of a painting Oedipus Taken down from the Tree, and in 1848 his Winnower was bought by the government.
Taken together, the Preface could connect with the first half of the poem to suggest that the poem is from the view of a dreaming narrator, or it could connect with the second half of the poem to show how a reader is to interpret the lines by connecting himself with the persona in a negative manner.
In order to clear his name, he wrote " Exact Description of Louisiana, of Its Harbors, Lands and Rivers, and Names of the Indian Tribes That Occupy It, and the Commerce and Advantages to Be Derived Therefrom for the Establishment of a Colony " in 1713 followed in 1714 by " The Route to Be Taken to Ascend the Missouri River.
Taken aback by such candid talk, the Zulu king is supposed to have called off the destructive edicts, rewarding the blunt teller-of-truths with a gift of cattle.
Taken at a sprightly pace, with a bright, slowly building big band arrangement and a joyous saxophone solo by Phil Woods, it would seem at cross purposes with the material, but Tormé gives a suitably wry reading which highlights the absurdity happening around him.
Taken literally or strictly, theocracy means rule by God or gods and refers primarily to an internal " rule of the heart ", especially in its biblical application.
The merger was also the subject of a book Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off With Chrysler, ( 2000 ) by Bill Vlasic and Bradley A. Stertz.
One study on Ashkenazi Jews stated " Taken as a whole, our results, along with those from previous studies, support the model of a Middle Eastern origin of the AJ population followed by subsequent admixture with host Europeans or populations more similar to Europeans.
Taken over by Avommore Dairies in 1986, which merged with Waterford to form Glanbia in 1997 ).
Taken by the Spanish in 1587 by the treachery of the English commander Rowland York, Zutphen was recovered by Maurice, prince of Orange, in 1591, and except for two short periods, one in 1672 and the other during the French Revolutionary Wars, it has since then remained a part of the Netherlands.
Taken 15 to 20 minutes ahead of time, these medications can also prevent asthma symptoms triggered by exercise or exposure to cold air.
Taken aback by the starkly different musical style, record label executives felt that the song would ruin Martin's career.
( Taken from Article by Christopher Alan Edwards, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, website: suvew. org / mollus )
* The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship ( 1998 ) written by Charles Bukowski and illustrated by Robert Crumb.
The Sharptown Bridge, Taken by Billy Adkins 9-20-08
Taken over in 1909 by the Rudolph Wurlitzer Company after De Kleist became mayor of North Tonawanda in 1906, Wurlitzer became one of the largest musical instrument manufacturing plants in the world.
Taken in this context, though he has sometimes been viewed as an odd or unqualified appointee to the College of Arms, it is not surprising, given the social expectations of his day, that by descent his credentials for his offices there were sound.
Taken and then
Pip Torrens first played Major Rich in " The Mystery of the Spanish Chest " ( 1991 ), and then returned to the series to play Jeremy Cloade in Taken at the Flood ( 2006 ).
Taken by illness in 1162 AD, Muhammad was succeeded by Hasan, who was then about thirty-five years of age.
He was then ordered to be taken to his house and was taken .’~ Taken from Usool as-Sunnah by Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal.
Taken from the Tahitian word tatu or tatau, and incorporating Japanese traditional irezumi (" insertion of ink ") methods, tattooing became very popular among sailors, and then caught on with bikers and others who like to have permanent artwork on their skin.
Taken together, the root is then turning, following the gravity stimuli.
Taken from the Western region of Africa in primarily the Krio and Mende populations of what is today Sierra Leone as slaves and transported to some areas of Brazil ( including Bahia ) the Gullah-Gheechee slaves were then sold to slave owners in what was then Charlestowne, South Carolina.
Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
When the then Director-General Greg Dyke announced a plan to " cut the crap " from the BBC and sent plentiful publicity material to all members of staff, Donaldson famously threw his in the bin, before writing to Dyke informing him that he has " Taken your advice-and cut the crap ".
Taken on Special Survey in 1879, he surveyed the fourth meridian to a point north of Lloydminster, Alberta / Saskatchewan, then ran in the 14th base line west to Stony Plain where it intersected the 5th meridian.
Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the Scottish Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
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Taken into the London, Midland and Scottish Railway during the Grouping of 1923, the line then passed on to the London Midland Region of British Railways on nationalisation in 1948.
Taken to safety, he is then convinced by a police informant to return to the town on the pretense that " El Gringo " is dying and wishes to have last rites.
Taken and with
Taken together with an increased emphasis on discipline in the RIC, this helped to curb the random atrocities the Black and Tans committed since March 1920 for the remainder of the war, if only because reprisals were now directed from above rather than being the result of a spontaneous desire for revenge.
Taken with Canon EF 85mm lens | Canon 85mm f / 1. 8 lens with 11 frames stacked, each frame exposed 30 seconds.
Taken orally with an appropriate MAOI, DMT produces a long lasting ( over 3 hour ), slow, deep metaphysical experience similar to that of psilocybin mushrooms, but more intense.
Taken in conjunction with the fact that a string of such parcels existed around Woensel, the original location of Eindhoven may be understood to be the " last hove on the land of Woensel ".
Taken for a Ride: How Daimler-Benz Drove Off with Chrysler.
Taken to its extreme, the " epigenetic code " could represent the total state of the cell, with the position of each molecule accounted for in an epigenomic map, a diagrammatic representation of the gene expression, DNA methylation and histone modification status of a particular genomic region.
Taken in totality though, this grand conjunction included the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, with the Earth also in alignment with the Sun and the Moon at the exact moment of the new moon and a solar eclipse ( eight celestial bodies in total ).
Taken with intravenous contrast medium.
Taken to the public arena, he is faced with two doors, behind one of which is a hungry tiger that will devour him.
Taken together, the list of suitors matches well with the captains in the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad ; however, some of the names may have been placed in the list of Helen's suitors simply because they went to Troy.
Taken together the evidence for the intercorrelations of subskills of IQ measures, the evidence for a shared set of genes associated with mathematics, reading, and g, and the evidence for shared and overlapping " what is it?
Taken as a whole, Waltham Forest comprises built-up urban districts in the south with inner-city characteristics, and more affluent residential development in the north with a variety of reservoirs, open space, small sections of Epping Forest, parks, and playing fields, which together cover a fifth of the borough.
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