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  • We rarely have any contact with local police, but a few weeks ago as we passed a little sub-station on our way to the ranch we were flagged over in our 1983 Chevy truck.

    keeping car registered NOB 2009

  • Investigators say forensic evidence links Melaku to five shootings last October and November, including at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting office, a Marine Corps recruiting sub-station and near the Pentagon.

    Va. man charged in D.C.-area military shootings 2011

  • Investigators say forensic evidence links Melaku to five shootings last October and November, including at a U.S. Coast Guard recruiting office, a Marine Corps recruiting sub-station and near the Pentagon.

    Va. man charged in D.C.-area military shootings 2011

  • Multinational power and automation technology company ABB today said it has secured a $71 million order from Steel Authority of India Ltd for supply of a high-voltage sub-station package to the steel major's Bhilai plant, in Chhattisgarh.

    Deals India: Morning News Roundup By DEALS INDIA STAFF 2011

  • The reserve headquarters is at Kuri near the river mouth with a sub-station upstream.

    Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras 2008

  • Naval sub-station, before deploying them to Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Dr. Paul Toffel: Health-Care Reform: An Original And Simple Proposal 2009

  • Closer to 'civilization' the Venezuelan government has sited a remote electricity sub-station to convey high-voltage electricity from the Guri hydroelectric dam all the way to Venezuela's southern border with Brazil.

    Copenhagen Climate Change Summit? 2009

  • Going down the right field line beneath the #4 tracks, the stadium abuts a subway electric sub-station beyond which is a narrow parking garage, so it's not too many steps to walk around the parking garage.

    Archive 2009-07-01 The Brillig Blogger 2009

  • Whether or not you want to call this power plant a "switching sub-station", bombing it remains a crime under international law.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Wm. Hazlitt - Gaza's power comes principally from powers stations in Israel not from inside Gaza so the station to which you refer is in all probability a switching sub-station.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

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