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  • Rainer Grohe, the executive director of Galileo Joint Undertaking, is taking a tough line in public, telling Le Monde that governments should not have to pay the full balance, but Thales, one of the lead contractors, is countering that many of the potential commercial applications for Galileo depend on political decisions that have not yet been made.

    The CAP of the sky? Richard 2006

  • Lynch is featured in a PBS Frontline documentary entitled The Undertaking, and his multi-generational funeral-industry family is a common story in a profession many take on after growing up around it.

    canada.com Top Stories 2010

  • Death prevented her from executing her great Designs; but some of her best and wisest Subjects, and boldest Seamen, had enter'd so deeply into the Plan, and laid it so nearly to their Hearts, that what she had intended in the Settlement of Virginia was in a good Measure effected in the Reign of King James the 1st, tho 'the Undertaking was a great* Difficulty upon his timerous Councils, because the Spaniards, of whom he stood in servile Awe, did not approve of it.

    A New and Accurate Account of the Provinces of South-Carolina and Georgia: With Many Curious and Useful Observations on the Trade, Navigation and Plantations of Great-Britain, Compared with Her Most Powerful Maritime Neighbours in Antient and Modern Times 1732

  • As part of that Nov. 15 application, however, each applicant city must pledge to sign an "Undertaking" document, in which the city pledges to sign the Host City Contract "without reserve or amendment," should it be awarded the Games in July.

    City Council's Miller Wants to See Bloomberg Olympics Deal for 2012 2005

  • She did stop by long enough, though, to say a few words about the upcoming book (which I'll post next week), and to talk about a favorite book from Michigan (where she went to grad school and wrote The Historian): The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch, a professional poet and working undertaker in his small Michigan town.

    Books of the States 2009

  • "JUMP INTO FALL" EXHIBIT, glass-fused sculpture and jewelry by David and Dale Barnes and acrylics by Jackie Liedl. 11 a. m.-5 p.m. daily, through Nov. 1, Artists 'Undertaking, 309 Mill St.,

    Prince William County community calendar, Oct. 7 to 14, 2010 Post 2010

  • "JUMP INTO FALL," fused-glass sculptures and jewelry by David and Dale Barnes and local scenes and acrylics by Jackie Liedl. 11 a. m.-5 p.m. daily, through Monday, Artists 'Undertaking, 309 Mill St.,

    Prince William County community events, Oct. 28-Nov. 4, 2010 Post 2010

  • "JUMP INTO FALL" EXHIBIT, glass-fused sculpture and jewelry by David and Dale Barnes and acrylics by Jackie Liedl. 11 a. m.-5 p.m. daily, through Nov. 1, Artists 'Undertaking, 309 Mill St.,

    Prince William County community calendar, Oct. 14-21, 2010 Post 2010

  • To shore up its finances, the finance ministry is considering a proposal wherein the Specified Undertaking of the Unit Trust of India may be asked to borrow against its holdings in blue chips such as Larsen & Toubro, Axis Bank and ITC Ltd. The funds so raised can be used by the undertaking to purchase government stake in some public sector undertakings.

    Deals India: Morning News Roundup DEALS INDIA STAFF 2011

  • Undertaking research that will advance our understanding of the causes and best methods of preventing childhood trauma

    Injury Prevention for Children and Adolescents 2010

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