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  • abbreviation Latin Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (Doctor of Humanities; Doctor of Humane Letters)

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  • abbreviation left hand drive

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  • SinoTech provides innovative EOR services to major oil companies in China using leading technologies, including certain patented lateral hydraulic drilling "LHD" technologies, which the Company has an exclusive right to use in China, and a molecular deposition film technology, for which the Company holds a PRC patent.

    SinoTech Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • Added 6 Lateral Hydraulic Drilling "LHD" Units During Fiscal Year 2010

    SinoTech Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2010 Financial Results - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • The Large Helical Device (LHD) project involves construction of the world's largest superconducting helical device, which employs a heliotron magnetic field originally developed in Japan.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Might be worth stopping in place a LHA/LHD of some sort.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » WW question from Jose. 2009

  • If one posits a Coalition Navy, a Combined Pacific Fleet if you will, then it is probably possible to maintain a Nimitz class carrier in addition to a Wasp class LHD.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Man, I should really check my own canon before setting these exam questions. 2009

  • That's kind of another factor in what has happened with the LHD build.

    Why are we dithering? 2008

  • F18 upgrade, C17 purchase, big honking ship/LHD proposals, submarine construction, SF organisation...

    "Strategic Cousins" 2008

  • Further to Navantia and their work on the AWD/LHD, the hot rumour out here is that the new White Paper will recommend a fourth AWD to allow production to run right up to the scheduled start of the Collins class sub replacement.

    Aussie junket? 2008

  • "We have consulted with Department of Transport legislators on this issue and the AA's opinion is that the amendment poses no threat to the ability of owners of LHD vehicles to use, sell or license their vehicles," said Handfield-Jones in a statement.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The amphibious assault vessels to be built with nuclear power, if the Senate approves this year's act, are those designated as LHA and LHD, ships with large flight decks for helicopters and vertical-take-off-and-landing airplanes, and the LPD, a smaller vessel mainly carrying landing craft and troops.

    Nuclear-Powered Amphibious Assault Ships? 2008

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