Ford is marketing its Triton truck engine, and Cadillac is touting its powerful Northstar engine.

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Notable backers include Frank Sica , the director of Northstar Realty and Carl Hamann, co-founder of ConsumerSearch.com.

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And be sure to hit the slopes of Northstar California, home to Olympic snowboard superstar Shaun White.

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And is it just me, or does anyone else think that a Northstar and Captain America co-op game is a funny, funny idea?

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The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe , has an ideal location at the base of the Northstar ski resort, five miles northwest of the lake.

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Bachelor has since moved to the Ritz Carlton at the Northstar ski resort in Lake Tahoe, but the hotel has two new dogs, a St.

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Now, with help from Topsy, Mellman and NorthStar, Twitter has found a way to extract voter sentiment from those conversations, measure it, and return a daily number.

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In one large transaction recently, NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.

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"I haven't been buying shares lately, " says Northstar's Asher.

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"Clearly when you back out the barter transactions, as well as the three-year dot-com ad contracts that are now expiring, advertising wasn't a viable business model, " says Henry Asher, president of Northstar Group, a New York-based investment manager that holds the parent company's shares.

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