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  • But the foreign company assumes control and gets the shell's U.S. listing without the level of scrutiny that an initial public offering entails.

    SEC Probes China Auditors Michael Rapoport 2011

  • Even so I liked licking the last salty, meaty bits off the shell's corrugations.

    Restaurant review: Aurelia 2011

  • The shell's thick armor smoked, but elsewise took no harm.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • The shell's thick armor smoked, but elsewise took no harm.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • ABOVE: The Guggenheim, inside links to museum's site, timeline of the building's constructionABOVE: Nautilus shell's spiral of chambers, called camerae, that this cephalopod builds for itself as it grows.

    Starship & Museum Bulletin Board #1 Fresca 2010

  • I'm having trouble picking one story to write about her, so the first one I'll write about happened when she was about six-months old and we were keeping her in our garage and I went check on her one morning and found a whole case of 20 Gauge shotgun shell's on the floor with BB's all over the place and my puppy looking at me like the one that chewed up the superbowl ticket's.

    Brag (or Bitch) About your Dog 2008

  • Suddenly the once restricted internal winds break through doing so first at each pole, tearing a small hole of the shell's membrane.

    Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009

  • There are quite a few people that i've seen with my own eyes that are shell's of the people they were before they embarked on long term drug abuse.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • The abalone shell's strength comes from the way the calcium is arranged.

    Nature At The Patent Office 2008

  • One interesting behavioral characteristic of the Pacific Island endodontids is the use of the shell's umbilicus as an egg brood chamber see, for example, Solem & Climo, 1985.

    Egg brooding in land snails AYDIN 2008

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