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was and seen
He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.
Carmer himself was nowhere to be seen.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
As early as the 6th century B.C. the earth was seen to be spherical.
Years were to pass before these plans came off the paper, and Wright was justified in thinking, as the projects failed, that much of what he had to show his country and the world would never be seen except by visitors to Taliesin.
Mama said she was one of the prettiest ladies she had ever seen.
The sneers at Hearst changed to concern when it was seen that he had strong support in many parts of the country.
Victor had been stirred by my account of him in Makers And Finders, for Stephens was one of the lost writers whom Melville had seen in his childhood and whom I was bent on resurrecting.
But he, as I can now retort, was the man who could see so short a distance ahead that after a visit to Russia he gave voice to the famous exclamation: `` I have seen the future and it works ''.
But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.
Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.
It was what anyone who had ever seen her had always expected her to do.
It was only hours since I had last seen them, but they had changed and I had changed.
Once covertly looking at Simms Purdew, the only man in the world whom he hated, he had seen the heavy, slack, bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel, obscene banter, and had seen the pale-blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment, and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature.
It was the most important-looking cradle he had ever seen.
Mrs. Hewlitt led the birthcontrol league, Mrs. Ryerson was arthritis, and way in the distance could be seen the slate roof of Ethel Littleton's house, a roof that signified gout.
The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.
Despite the successful rehabilitation of over a half million disabled persons in the first eleven years after 1943, the existing program was still seen to be inadequate to cope with the nation's backlog of an estimated two million disabled.

was and cost-cutting
The offseason after their second World Series title, the Marlins made a questionable cost-cutting move as Derrek Lee was traded to Chicago Cubs for Hee Seop Choi and pitcher Mike Nannini.
This was never very profitable, and in 1965, several managers suggested that the unprofitable centers be closed in a cost-cutting measure.
The September 2008 redesign ( discussed here on the Tribune < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s web site ) was controversial and is largely regarded as an effort in cost-cutting.
The larger multi-masted schooners were somewhat unmanageable and the rig was largely a cost-cutting measure introduced towards the end of the days of sail.
This was a major step in the development of limited animation — though despite the abuse of the form that would arise in the future because of cost-cutting, Gerald McBoing-Boing was meant as an artistic exercise rather than merely a way of producing cheap cartoons.
Limited animation was originally founded as an artistic device, though it was soon used widely as a cost-cutting measure rather than an aesthetic method.
In 2007, it was announced that the BBC would sell its landmark Television Centre as part of a cost-cutting programme.
In September 1992, the Padres announced that they would not seek to re-sign Santiago, in what was seen as a cost-cutting measure.
Another cost-cutting move the city was considering as of late 2010 was establishing a third tier for city employees.
UPA pioneered the technique of limited animation, and though this style of animation came to be widely abused during the 1960s and 1970s as a cost-cutting measure, it was originally intended as a stylistic alternative to the growing trend ( particularly at Disney ) of recreating cinematic realism in animated films.
However, it was implemented as a cost-cutting measure rather than an artistic choice.
The expanding nozzle was later abandoned in a cost-cutting phase, and today the SSME suffers a 25 % loss of performance at low altitude as a result.
In interviews, Norman Lear stated that the idea for the piano song introduction was a cost-cutting measure.
Rendell's cost-cutting policies brought him strong opposition from labor unions ; however, he was re-elected in 1995, defeating Republican Joe Rocks with 80 % of the vote.
Support for the Apple IIe to Apple IIGS upgrade was removed, and some cost-cutting measures had some chips soldered in place rather than socketed.
This, combined with cost-cutting initiatives in local government and a housing benefit scheme that was more generous to housing associations than local authorities, led to many councils transferring their housing stock to housing associations.
In a cost-cutting drive, editorial production of several of these sections was outsourced in 2008.
Running the chariot races at public expense was probably a cost-cutting and labor-reducing measure, making it easier to channel the proper funds into the racing organizations.
Near the end of World War II, last-ditch ersatz models were being made in various cost-cutting feature variations with the goal of cheaply bolstering the Imperial Armed Forces ; for example, the ovoid bulb-shaped bolt of earlier runs were replaced by a smaller and utilitarian cylindrical shape, the handguard on the barrel was omitted, and crude fixed sights were fitted.
* Ubisoft recently announced that it would no longer include paper manuals with their Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 games, claiming that this cost-cutting measure was for the purposes of being environmentally friendly.
However, unbeknownst to them, Lead Belly was released in August for good time ( and because of cost-cutting due to the Depression ) and not because of the Lomaxes ' recording, which the Governor may not have listened to.
The original plan had been for a completely new route to be built between Wednesbury and Moxley, but this was abandoned in favour of widening the existing route as part of cost-cutting measures.

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