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  • China Detains 37 Wal-Mart Workers Most of the new smaller locations, roughly 80, will be the company's existing midsize Walmart Market supermarket stores, with the company opening only about 20 stores in its newest format, the convenience-store-sized Walmart Express.

    Wal-Mart Looks on Course to End Sales Slump Miguel Bustillo 2011

  • [_Detains him by touching his arm with her fan_, _and keeping it there while she is talking_.]

    An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde 1877

  • In the excellent researches of Leslie, De la Provostaye and Detains, and Balfour Stewart, the same reciprocity, as regards solid bodies, has been variously illustrated; while the labours, theoretical and experimental, of Kirchhoff have given this subject a wonderful expansion, and enriched it by applications of the highest kind.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • Syria Reportedly Detains Outspoken Blogger An outspoken Syrian blogger was reportedly arrested on Sunday on her way to a conference in neighboring Jordan on press freedom in the Arab world.

    NYT > Home Page By ROBERT MACKEY 2011

  • Israel cracks down on the press: Detains editor of Ma'an for "criticizing the State of Israel"

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Israel cracks down on the press: Detains editor of Ma'an for "criticizing the State of Israel"

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • China Detains Olympic Protesters on Everest 2 years 43 weeks ago

    Hao Hao Report - Published news wdbox 2010

  • Israel cracks down on the press: Detains editor of Ma'an for "criticizing the State of Israel"

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Israel cracks down on the press: Detains editor of Ma'an for "criticizing the State of Israel"

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Israel cracks down on the press: Detains editor of Ma'an for "criticizing the State of Israel"

    Signs of the Times 2010

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