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Anyone know anything about it? gyrfalcon on March 13, 2009 - 12: 54pm. thersites on March 13, 2009 - 1: 57pm.
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Cazart on March 20, 2009 - 2: 29pm. thersites on March 20, 2009 - 5: 53pm.
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This was in the 80s, so I don't know if regulations have changed, but since he has always been cautious and truly conservative I know the bank avoided all the leverage crap and is solid this year, able to loan out money to farmers and other small businesses just like usual. thersites on April 10, 2009 - 9: 31am.
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Dust off your short-term memory and test your drug war knowledge with some tidbits from This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America. thersites on July 10, 2009 - 12: 32pm. anandine on July 10, 2009 - 12: 33pm.
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Substitute the correct phrase "We think we know" for his use of the incorrect "we know" and I think a flaw in his argument is revealed. gyrfalcon on May 1, 2009 - 8: 36am. thersites on May 1, 2009 - 8: 38am.
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In Gates 'proposed budget, the F-22, VH-71, the Navy's DDG-1000 Destroyer, Airborne Laser Missile Defense (a laser mounted on a Boeing 747), and the Army's Future Combat Systems program are all targeted for modification or elimination. thersites on April 6, 2009 - 11: 18pm.
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In the French press, Sarkozy was reported to have smoothed the disagreement between Obama and Hu Jintao. thersites on April 2, 2009 - 3: 52pm. flubber on April 2, 2009 - 6: 29pm.
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Substitute the correct phrase "We think we know" for his use of the incorrect "we know" and I think a flaw in his argument is revealed. gyrfalcon on May 1, 2009 - 8: 36am. thersites on May 1, 2009 - 8: 38am.
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Dr. Anderson considers this monkey as identical with _Semnopithecus priamus_, but Kellaart, as I have before stated, is very positive on the point of difference, calling _S. priamus_ emphatically the crested monkey, and alleging that _thersites_ has no crest, and it is probable he had opportunities of observing the two animals in life; he says he had a young specimen of _priamus_, which distinctly showed the crest, and a young _thersites_ of the same age which showed no sign of it.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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_thersites_; in the original they are wrongly numbered -- the former should be 2 and not 3, and the latter 3 and not 2.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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