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  • If they really stuck to a person's recorded driving history, the one they get from each of our vehicles, I am sure the Allotment could be a much smaller.

    My Citizen Commuter Permit William "Papa" Meloney 2007

  • Allotment, which is dispersed by the Texas Education Agency.

    Brownsville Herald : By COREY RYAN/Valley Morning Star 2010

  • Where she’s known as LottieBrook, she has a group called Lottie’s Lot, and a room called Lottie’s Allotment, which is rather bare at the moment, stop by and bring something to sit on.

    Clubbing in Habbo 2007

  • Turn him into a brown python strap and make your own replica watch:) 13 minutes ago, -1 / +0 "Allotment"?

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2008

  • I even wrote a book, The Half Hour Allotment, a few years ago, about how to keep an allotment going if you have little time.

    How we nearly lost the plot Lia Leendertz 2010

  • Allotment holders save £1,400 a year by growing their own fruit and veg

    This week: Peter and Hazelmary Bull, Brian Cowen, Piers Morgan 2011

  • Once the rules are finalized, this will replace the Unlisted Public Companies Preferential Allotment Rules of 2003, the official said.

    New Rules for Private Firms to Curb Black Money Sangeeta Singh of Mint 2011

  • Congress later achieved part of AAA's goals through the 1935 Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act until enactment of the second AAA in February 1938.

    FDR's New Deal v. Obamanomics 2009

  • The land consolidation fund addresses a legacy of the General Allotment Act of 1887 (the “Dawes Act”), which divided tribal lands into parcels between 40 and 160 acres in size, allotted them to individual Indians and sold off all remaining unallotted Indian lands.

    Secretary Salazar Urges Congress to Approve Settlement of Cobell Lawsuit on Native American Trust Management 2009

  • All else had failed to liberate the Indians from their land: genocide, treaty-making and treaty-breaking, sub-standard education, disruption of Indian religion and culture, and the last and most oppressive of such measures, the Dawes Allotment Act. Assimilation into the dominant society, if by assimilation we mean the adoption of certain technologies and techniques, had already been underway for some hundred years.

    Tim Giago: Good or Bad? Indian Reorganization Act Turns 75 2009

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