However, I queried Mark-It and LoanX for pricing on a dozen of her portfolio companies, including Rand McNally, MD Helicopters, American LaFrance and Dura Automotive.

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Southern friends I queried all recalled frenzied bouts of baking.

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Four more the Ted Baker Halfbee flight bag, the Gucci messenger bag, the Coach Bleecker utility tote and the WILL Everett could work well for men or women though several women I queried felt the Everett was too heavy.

WSJ: Wanted: Satchel to Carry Everything

Of course, this is just a single sampling of users, and On Device gives no indication of how many of the almost almost 16, 000 iPhone owners surveyed are on each platform (I have queried the company on this point), but in the ever-upward world of technology, flatness equals death.

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I've queried many herders about the feasibility of eight reindeer -- it is possible in the right hands, but not common.

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As he nears the end of this White House run (he is leaving office at the end of the year), he had specific deficiencies in mind when I and others queried him on that score.

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