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  • After releasing her follow-up, Danca Ma Mi, with Narada, she moved over to the South African label Sheer to distribute her latest, Morabeza.

    Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Music as Preservation and Cultural Force 2009

  • "Sheer" -- the trend for translucent fabrics -- came in third place, followed by "shirt dresses," and "sustainable style," reflecting a growing trend of clothing made of recycled fabrics.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Founder of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, a nonprofit organization working on Alzheimer's issues, and she's spokesperson for the new make-up system called Sheer Cover.

    CNN Transcript Nov 15, 2003 2003

  • He says the water billing system (known as Sheer Water System) that was his company inherited from the previous managers, City Water, has been a root cause of all the problems.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

  • "Sheer" may seem like an adjective appropriate for lingerie and makeup, but

    Blisstree 2010

  • "Sheer" may seem like an adjective appropriate for lingerie and makeup, but

    Blisstree 2010

  • The beauty entrepreneur, who with John Frieda was responsible for introducing the tress-taming trailblazer Frizz-Ease and color-specific hair care products such as Sheer Blonde, was heavily influenced by the music industry and the Internet when developing the color cosmetics line.

    The latest WWD Headlines 2008

  • As for fear, I think a performance of Kevin Drumm's "Sheer Hellish Miasma" could be pretty scary with the right PA system.

    Taking sides: Who should be performing the Stewart/Colbert rally? Click Track 2010

  • Sheer down, screaming, seventy feet he fell, smashing to the earth with an audible thud and crunch, his body rebounding slightly and settling down again.

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • Geoff Dyer is the author of three previous novels, and five nonfiction books, including But Beautiful, which was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize, and Out of Sheer Rage, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

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