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item and offered
If the loan is not paid ( or extended, if applicable ) within the time period, the pawned item will be offered for sale by the pawnbroker.
Apart from the evening meal with his cousin, where every item was shared by two or more people, the only opportunity for poison to have been administered appeared to be in a cup of coffee, offered by Harriet Vane.
* Legal assurance the accredited certification organization has ensured that the item that was successfully tested is identical to that which is being offered for sale,
The final trader in possession of the item prior to the Big Deal is usually offered first choice of the three doors in exchange for giving up the item.
In return the Woiwurrung offered woven baskets of examples of their weaponry and two Possum-skin cloaks, a highly treasured item.
The main item of trade offered by the Indians was buffalo robes, see Early history of the Arkansas Valley in Colorado.
The original item of value being offered may be either tangible or intangible.
The second item, usually money, is most often seen by the seller as being of equal or greater value than that being offered for sale.
A person or organization expressing an interest in acquiring the offered item of value is referred to as a potential buyer, prospective customer or prospect.
* Simple Simon is the cheapest item offered on the menu of the Bluth ´ s Original Frozen Banana stand in the TV show Arrested Development.
When a student enrolled in a statutory college takes a class offered by an endowed college, the endowed college is reimbursed in a budget item called an " accessory instruction fee.
Some of these items are offered for sale because the owner does not want or need the item to minimize their possessions or to raise funds.
Not every funeral provider owned a flower car ; they were an added luxury item offered as an extra-cost option for extravagant funerals.
In a Dutch auction, the item being sold is initially offered at a very high price, well in excess of the amount the seller expects to receive.
The fraudster accepts payment from the auction winner, but either never delivers the promised goods, or delivers an item that is less valuable than the one offered — for example, a counterfeit, refurbished, or used item.
A warranty of malfunctioning is an agreement offered by a seller ( or a producer ) to a consumer to replace or repair a faulty item, or to partially or fully reimburse the consumer in the
A model kit of Voyager was offered by Aurora Model Company for several years, and has become a sought-after collectors ' item since then.
In some cases, such as ratchets, the customer may be offered a repair kit with which to repair the item or an already refurbished item.
" The polite response is " bitte schön " or " bitte sehr ", essentially a request ( bitte, intensified by schön or sehr meaning " very ") that the recipient take or keep the item or favor offered ; in this respect it is roughly equivalent to " you are very welcome the item or favor offered ", in that both replies represent ratification of the recipient's accepting the item or favor.

item and news
The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.
A news item described the launching of a ship: `` Completing the ceremony, the beautiful movie star smashed a bottle of champagne over her stern as she slid gracefully down the ways into the sea ''.
Although prior to the catastrophic collapse of the towers, the phrase " a good day to bury bad news " ( not actually used by Moore ) has since been used to refer to other instances of attempting to hide one item of news behind a more publicised issue.
Of this trend, it has been said that the concept of a pure accident is no longer permitted in a news item.
* Grinder's Switch Gazzette: This skit featured Minnie Pearl as a newspaper worker who often insisted that her mute secretary, Miss Honeydew, take down an " important " news item which was always nonsense.
On 11 January 2008, Jay Kay himself posted a news item in which he thanked everyone who wished him the best for his birthday, and announced that the writing process for the new album had just begun.
According to the news item, eleven tracks had already been written for the new album, with more to come.
On 4 August 1933, the Courier published as a full news item the assertion of a London man, George Spicer, that a few weeks earlier while motoring around the Loch, he and his wife had seen " the nearest approach to a dragon or pre-historic animal that I have ever seen in my life ", trundling across the road toward the Loch carrying " an animal " in its mouth.
In the first season, the Muppet Newsman read out news items that occasionally featured the guest star for that week playing a character that was somehow involved in the item.
The news media reported on the experiments widely, and it was a front-page item on many newspapers around the world ( see science by press conference ).
As with English, most uncountable nouns are grammatically treated as singular, though some are plural, such as les mathématiques (" mathematics "), and some nouns that are uncountable in English are countable in French, such as une information (" a piece of information "), or une nouvelle (" a piece of news, a news item ").
* BBC news item re.
According to a July 13, 2010, news item by journalist Elizabeth Weise, a 2008 outbreak of Salmonella in the U. S. was traced back to the peppers used in salsa.
The theme of an innocent man being falsely imprisoned for espionage and finally vindicated might have been influenced by the Dreyfus Affair, which was a prominent worldwide news item a few years before the book was written.
* BBC news item about the sale to Wakefield Council
He believed Biggs should not be released after returning to the UK in 2001 and he often appeared in the media to comment on any news item connected with the robbery before his death on 24 August 2005 at the age of 81.
Announcements of similar losses are becoming a common item in news reports.
The monologue was written by Marriott Edgar, who based the story on a news item about a boy who was eaten by a lion in the zoo.
The text in the ticker can then be clicked to reveal more about the news item.

item and story
* The librarian can use the catalogue to find out whether the library owns an item with a particular title or author, or that contains a short story, chapter, song, or poem with a particular title, or to compile a list of books by a particular author or on a particular subject.
One example he uses to indicate his meaning behind symbol misuse is the story of a man who, when told a particular food item was whale blubber, could barely keep from throwing it up.
" This theft of a cup, Smaug's knowledge of every item in the hoard, and the dragon's ensuing rampage all echo the story of Beowulf, on which Tolkien was a noted expert and which he described as one of his " most valued sources " for The Hobbit.
This storythe only item in the entire canon not of Danish origin — was included on the list of children's culture items, alongside LEGO building blocks.
A story appeared in the United Auto Workers ' magazine Solidarity and a small item followed it in The New Yorker Magazine.
Developed by Capcom, the game would become the main inspiration behind their later release Resident Evil, which also borrowed various other elements from the game, such as its mansion setting, " opening door " load screen, death animations, multiple endings depending on which characters survive, dual character paths, individual character skills, limited item management, story told through diary entries and frescos, emphasis on atmosphere, and horrific imagery.
A story is a single article, news item or feature, usually concerning a single event, issue, theme, or profile of a person.
* In the " X-Men Legends " the " Mask of Xorn " is the final item a player can get playing the story mode and gives a character the capacity of performing mutant attacks without spending mutant energy
Each individual item has a story to tell and can provide insights into a continual movement for the advancement of healthcare.
The story begins in a village whose most precious item, a giant blade, is worshipped as a holy symbol.
The last item of a broadcast, which was often a funny story, would usually be preceded by " For what it's worth.
Each story was recounted in flashback, as Johnny listed each line item from his expense account.
Mowgli takes a jeweled item away as a souvenir, not realizing the trouble it will cause in the second half of the story, and Kaa departs.
The entire story functions symbolically ; often a pattern relates each literal item to a corresponding abstract idea or principle.
For instance, editors may seek to provide a balance of different types of coverage, so that if there is an excess of foreign news for instance, the least important foreign story may have to make way for an item concerned with the domestic news.
Lane's side of the story is that a few weeks after the last comment Kilgallen published about the assassination ( an item in her September 3, 1965 Voice of Broadway column about Marina Oswald Porter and her incriminating photograph of Lee holding a rifle and socialist literature ), Kilgallen told him by phone that she planned to visit Dallas again.
To complete puzzles, players must either push pillars to construct negotiable paths between elevated areas, climb up and rappel down cliffs, or obtain a special item to progress through the story and game world.
Gordon's life story can be found in Lord George Gordon, by Yirmeyahu Bindman, 1992, ISBN 1-56062-056-0, LOC 90-86061, which has a 15 item Bibliography and a brief Glossary of Jewish religious terms used in the 203 + page book.
A silly season news item is called rötmånadshistoria in Sweden and mätäkuun juttu in Finland, both literally meaning " rotting-month story ".
The story ends comically with the old man's and William's " finds " being mixed up, where the old man describes things such as William's soap dish as being " a most rare item of great value " to a hall full of people.
The one serious item in the show, it stays faithful to the story with the addition of a twist at the last line that hints it is being sung by ( the adult ) Conradin himself.
The earliest use of this device as a twist ending in a murder mystery was in " The Three Apples ", a medieval Arabian Nights tale, where the protagonist Ja ' far ibn Yahya discovers by chance a key item towards the end of the story that reveals the culprit behind the murder to be his own slave all along.
One evening, Buranelli had as the final item a story about an actress going into a Los Angeles hotel with a great dane.

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