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ScentofViolets, that “corporate chieftan” had taken more risks and created more wealth (and more jobs) than you have ir ever will.
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Knowing the obsession PAWS' chieftan, Allison Lamond, has for safety, Maria thought and rethought every potentiality, every possible safeguard.
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ScentofViolets, that “corporate chieftan” had taken more risks and created more wealth (and more jobs) than you have ir ever will.
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Financial sector donors are fleeing Obama for the open arms of Republican Mitt Romney, himself a former private equity fund chieftan.
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An attendant informed him that the time of the great sacrifice was at hand, so the chieftan made to walk out of his hut; shrunken skull bones clack-clacked around his neck, a cape of skin behind him, towed to the ground by hardened eyeballs.
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Finally, when all the whooping and hollering and grunting and yelling and screaming grew to its thunderous crescendo, the chieftan stood up, shook his femur mace above his head and cried out to the heavens the ancient words that had been passed onto him by his ancestors, and their ancestors before them.
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Shaka was born in 1787, the illegitimate son of Senzangakhona, a Zulu chieftan, and Nandi, a woman from the eLangheni tribe.
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Shaka was born in 1787, the illegitimate son of Senzangakhona, a Zulu chieftan, and Nandi, a woman from the eLangheni tribe.
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Shaka was born in 1787, the illegitimate son of Senzangakhona, a Zulu chieftan, and Nandi, a woman from the eLangheni tribe.
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What's next, tribal chieftain free penile pump implants and free breast implant surgery for selected tribal chieftan wives?
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