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  • We decided to use the name Fairbridge to reflect this philosophy as well as the need for long-term capital, said Mr. Raghavan, who had helped Goldman Sachs PIA purchase low-cost cast metal parts maker Sigma Electric Manufacturing Corp. for $172 million.

    Fairfax Seeks Local, Unlisted Indian Firms Shraddha Nair 2011

  • Many things were puzzling in Fairbridge, that is, puzzling to a person with a logical turn of mind.

    The Butterfly House Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • The investments in Indian companies, which will include both minority as well as controlling stakes, will be made through Fairbridge Capital Pvt. Ltd, an affiliate of Fairfax.

    Fairfax Seeks Local, Unlisted Indian Firms Shraddha Nair 2011

  • * Grocery shopping is done, not nearly as scary as Calli's for Fairbridge, but scary enough ...

    November 5th, 2004 mynxii 2004

  • Others have directly argued against the AR(1) noise model based on conventional spectral analyses of certain climatic time series (e.g., Currie and Fairbridge, 1985; Newell et al., 1989).

    Weather and Climatology: Mandelbrot's View « Climate Audit 2005

  • South of the river, Fairbridge opened its doors to me, and there I learned of the work that organisation does to make a difference in the lives of young people at risk.

    With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005

  • Police on Tuesday stopped hundreds of women from Cement Siding, just outside Bulawayo, from lynching a male teacher accused of sexually abusing girls at Fairbridge primary school, Ziana news agency reported.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • What I suggest is that you start farm schools there on the line of the Prince of Wales Fairbridge Farm School we visited on Vancouver Island which brings boys and girls of the ages, five, six and seven, out from the Old Country and trains them on the land and eight or nine years later they are Canadian citizens.

    Canada and a United Empire 1937

  • People in Fairbridge put that somewhat humiliating fact from their minds.

    The Butterfly House Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

  • Karl von Rosen was bored to the verge of physical illness by Fairbridge functions.

    The Butterfly House Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

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