Lazare Kaplan, a US based diamond manufacturing and distribution company, developed this form of inscription.

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Manhattan-based Lazare Kaplan has been peddling what the industry calls "ideal cut" stones--which absorb and disperse visibly more light than most finished diamonds--since the mid-1980s.

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"Travellers are being treated like cattle and public service is being destroyed in France, " said one commuter, stuck at the Saint Lazare station in Paris.

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Chantal and Lazare, the charming hosts, have renovated this lovely 1930s pavilion with a happy respect for the spirit of the place and for the landscape that envelops it.

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"Timbuktu in the 14th to the 16th century was an important university city where many manuscripts referring to knowledge of astronomy, economy, religion, mathematics, physics, and medicine were produced, " said Lazare Eloundou, chief of the Africa unit for UNESCO's World Heritage Center.

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