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  • LG Hitachi expects the drive, which it calls the Hy Drive, will be used in laptops alongside a traditional hard-disk drive in a laptop, said Philip Cho, senior manager of the company's overseas sales team, at the Computex trade show in Taipei.

    PC Advisor News 2010

  • A2 milk is now being sold in Hy-Vee stores in the midwest.

    A2 Milk Hits America Steve Carper 2007

  • Hy is later behoorlik uitgeken as 'n Bantoe met die naam van Hastings Ndlovu.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • Connaught: it was formerly called Hy Fiacria Aidne \ the Rt. Hon.

    Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population Seward, William Wenman 1795

  • Lord — biographer of Alberto Giacometti and Dora Maar and bon ami de tout Paris circa 1960 — is charmingly up-front about the fabulous holidays on the Riviera or the Greek islands that he wangled out of well-propertied, colorful old biddies like the freakily fabulous narcissist Marie-Laure de Noailles (40-bedroom proto-McMansion in Hyères) and the formidable Greek Errieta Perdikidi (Skyros villa: “plain and unassuming but possessed an air, an atmosphere, a character that asserted deliberation and taste”).

    Travels With Their Aunts 2007

  • Lord — biographer of Alberto Giacometti and Dora Maar and bon ami de tout Paris circa 1960 — is charmingly up-front about the fabulous holidays on the Riviera or the Greek islands that he wangled out of well-propertied, colorful old biddies like the freakily fabulous narcissist Marie-Laure de Noailles (40-bedroom proto-McMansion in Hyères) and the formidable Greek Errieta Perdikidi (Skyros villa: “plain and unassuming but possessed an air, an atmosphere, a character that asserted deliberation and taste”).

    Travels With Their Aunts 2007

  • After Ted went off to inflate the bed, I called Hy’s cell.

    The Dangerous Hour Muller, Marcia 2004

  • " Since "Hy" is Irish for -country of, " and given Howard's interest in things Celtic, Hyboria would thus be 'the country of Borea" or 'the country of the north wind.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • " Since "Hy" is Irish for -country of, " and given Howard's interest in things Celtic, Hyboria would thus be 'the country of Borea" or 'the country of the north wind.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • When the engineers at General Motors 'Advanced Technology Group designed their latest concept car, called Hy-Wire, they didn't have your average middle-aged SUV-driving suburbanite in mind.

    JOY RIDE 2008

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