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  • This strange new profession has only recently begun to be formally documented in the work of anthropologists such as Robert Abadie in his book The Professional Guinea Pig.

    The unacceptable face of medical research Ben Goldacre 2010

  • The worst misbehaving comes from Blair (Leighton Meester), who divides her time between worrying about Chuck spilling their hookup secret and working to separate her father (John Shea) from his boyfriend (William Abadie).

    Critic's Corner Wednesday 2007

  • Instead, Abadie detected a peculiar relationship between the levels of political freedom a nation affords and the severity of terrorism.

    Boing Boing 2004

  • This is true not only for events of international terrorism, as previous studies have shown, but perhaps more surprisingly also for the overall level of terrorism, both of domestic and of foreign origin, Abadie said.

    Boing Boing 2004

  • A study of the Spanish Basque country shows terrorism reduced the Basque region's per capita GDP by 10 per cent, with the gap between expected and actual per capita GDP appearing to increase in response to spikes in terrorist activity (Abadie and Gardeazabal, 2001).

    The Costs of Terrorism - and the Benefits of Cooperating to Combat Terrorism 2003

  • Abadie-Reynal used geophysical prospecting to map the eastern bridgehead before it was flooded in 1999.

    Troubled Waters 2000

  • Abadie, is a handsome modern structure, but preserves two towers of the chateau of the counts of Angoulême, on the site of which it is built.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • After a meeting in which seventy architects took part Abadie was charged with its construction, in Byzantine style.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • McMillan's shirts which they had found among the effects of another, and entirely unsuspected, boy named Abadie.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • It has already been noted (Chapter I) that Abbey is not always what it seems; but in some cases it is local, from Fr, abbaye, of which the Provençal form Abadie was introduced by the Huguenots.

    The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909

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