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  • As part of the golden triangle, Sir Gus remains in close contact with Christo pher Geidt, the queen's private secretary and a former United Nations adviser to the Balkans.

    'Golden Triangle' Squared Away Details to Ease Negotiation Process 2010

  • Lessee -- Homer with "beast" pher for the opponents of the Lapiths,Cheiron called "most just of the Kentauroi," and wine their undoing, but no description or origin.

    The Origins of Centaurs Gregory Feeley 2005

  • Apparently, she'd received a call that morning from the photogra-pher she'd booked for the wedding with the news he'd broken a leg in a water-skiing accident and would not be able to do their wedding after all.

    A Secret Vengeance Lee, Miranda 2001

  • It's not something where he's just an economist or he's just a political philosopher -- pher or just a moralist.

    Friedrich Hayek: A Biography 2001

  • Anything was better than trying to pher what had happened in the Circle chamber.

    Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999

  • Aunt Betty was the first person to tell me 1 had a photographic mem. ory; her comment made me believe 1 would grow up to be a photogr pher.

    the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

  • So, I became a part-time phuoso-pher and a full-time space propulsion engineer.

    Eve's Rib Chandler, Bryn 1989

  • For a while they thought he might want to be a philoso-pher, but his general interests were of specifics and not of abstruse speculations.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Prejudice, tradition, antiquity, and public opinion must be subjected by the philoso - pher to a rational analysis and experience, “peculiarly and personally his own.”

    ENLIGHTENMENT HELLMUT O. PAPPE 1968

  • In the meantime the development of historiography had produced problems still more profound — problems that were calculated to tax the mind of the philoso - pher — and the discussion of these reached great in - tensity in the 1890's, though its influence amongst practicing historians tended to come later.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

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