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  • DOF: Clarificatory Guidelines on Duty-Free Importation of Books: (find it here)

    GBB: Dissecting the BOC’s FAQ and DOF Guidelines « BAHAY TALINHAGA 2009

  • And so it was that Adelstein showed up at a shady real estate office in Tokyo one Thursday afternoon with a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of Duty-Free whiskey to teach these gangsters how to handle a PlayStation controller.

    Yakuza 3 Video Game Reviewed By Yakuza Gangsters: 'Cigarettes And Shabu Should Be In Every Game' 2010

  • I was taking a walk earlier and was about to head down a hall which looked like it had some promising shopping--except there were two uniformed men with machine guns standing guard and a sign that advised this was the entry to the International Duty-Free area, and anyone who crossed over into it would not be allowed to return to the domestic area.

    My Thanks-- fastfwd 2009

  • And yet, as the Faithful Correspondent noted, we peons still have to take off our shoes and endure long lines at the TSA checkpoints when we fly from Detroit to Toronto because, you know, it never occurs to Osama bin-Forgotten that he could really devastate the economy of two Western powers with a wad of C-4 strategically placed in the biffy at the Duty-Free Shop.

    One Man and a Bridge 2007

  • Fionna's fans, disappointed, scattered into the Duty-Free shopping area, leaving Elizabeth standing alone in front of the door.

    License Invoked Asprin, Robert 2001

  • Because of the security order keeping information concerning the mission to "need to know," Elizabeth knew she wasn't permitted to show her MI-5 badge, so she was forced to retreat out into the Duty-Free area, her cheeks burning with embarrassment.

    License Invoked Asprin, Robert 2001

  • Over at Stansted airport, James May and his mate Oz Clarke will be taking a protracted wine tour of the terminal hostelries in a mobility cart for a new series 'Oz and James Duty-Free Adventure'.

    Documenting Reality Psychonautical 2010

  • Over at Stansted airport, James May and his mate Oz Clarke will be taking a protracted wine tour of the terminal hostelries in a mobility cart for a new series 'Oz and James Duty-Free Adventure'.

    Documenting Reality Psychonautical 2010

  • I spotted a suited city type clutching a "Bahrain Duty-Free" carrier bag next to students with fake dreadlocks, and pony-tailed 60-somethings in ponchos.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • He cites a past case in which businessman Nasir Ali sued the government in an international court over the ownership of the World Duty-Free Shops to demonstrate the trouble Kenya could find itself in over the removal of compensation clause.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

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