Excerpted from At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays by Anne Fadiman.
Bonds available on ORB include issues by familiar names such as Rolls-Royce as well as by smaller entities such as PHP, a health care facilities firm, and Places for People, a housing trust.
Forest elephants are distinguished from the more familiar savanna elephants by their smaller size and straighter tusks.
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Of course, they say that misery loves company, and Whitman is surrounded by familiar faces with whom she can share the doldrums.
Now, Ford says she's coming back to the perfect situation in New York, surrounded by familiar faces from her Detroit days in coach Bill Laimbeer and some former teammates.
But the behavior of rats in the odorized box wasn't significantly different in either group, suggesting the familiar scents left by the odorizing rat suppressed conditioned fear responses, researchers said.
Any thought that due process puts beyond the reach of the criminal law all individual associational relationships, unless accompanied by the commission of specific acts of criminality, is dispelled by familiar concepts of the law of conspiracy and complicity.
Of course, by now most of us are familiar with similar plans expressed by many of the fast food and other companies throughout the nation.
We can tell you that the information included in the 2005 article was based upon a preliminary investigation we undertook on behalf of a pension sponsor, assisted by an health insurance industry insider familiar with law enforcement subpoenas received by health insurers at that time.
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In Britain Dixons has been followed by similarly familiar firms such as W.H.
The search begins with a short, free survey: Entrepreneurs can nominate themselves or be nominated by those familiar with their companies.
And Mr Schily is not put off by the familiar mantra that xenophobia is not to be blamed on the foreigners concerned.
Unless the collector is represented by a familiar face who can gain early access, he stands little chance of snagging his trophy.
Both allow a take on the universe that is different from the one provided by more familiar methods using light and radio waves.
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He said it was similar to the human navigational process, where we build up a "mental map" of our surroundings by recognising familiar sights.
Frame your industry in a context that is familiar to your audience by relating your products to other aspects of the lifestyle which define your industry, especially those which are popular.
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Lusa is sulking inside, hurt and angry after yet another row with her husband, when her nostrils are tickled by the familiar scent of honeysuckle, drifting in through an open window.
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Google will not discuss its proprietary scanning technology, but, rather than investing in page-turning equipment, the company employs people to operate the machines, I was told by someone familiar with the process.
The overall picture is by now familiar to anyone interested in the news: Google, Amazon, Starbucks and many other multinationals are using different jurisdictions and complex accounting rules to avoid paying corporation tax.
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Recorded in 1953 by his familiar all-star trio, the song is beautiful, the pace luxurious, and the scenery that it conjures up is New York in the first full days of cold, with the leaves changing and the city settling-in for the end of the year.
It is fed in part by some of the familiar pejoratives associated with tech geekery (Denton as anti-social robot, for example), and also by his own publications, which, in the interest of his vaunted transparency, occasionally turn their pitiless gaze on the boss himself, for comic effect.
That's when the net's familiar domains will be joined by a slew of novel names.
Familiar homelands are already disrupted by unusual occurrences that fall outside the lived experience of community elders.
After you draft a handbook, make sure you have it reviewed by an attorney familiar with employment law.
The proposal was obtained by The Associated Press and confirmed by two people familiar with the internal discussions.
The first week of the season offers a mix of familiar and rarely seen works by Balanchine and Robbins.
Along the way, he finds freedom by leaving the familiar for the unknown.
Only in a brief postscript do we learn that pithecanthropus now goes by the more familiar name homo erectus.
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The radicalization of young Muslims in the West, in particular children of the well-off, is by now a familiar story.
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