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  • noun United States biochemist (1891-1987)

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Examples

  • Northrop is the Pentagon 's third-largest supplier, with key roles in the Navy' s aircraft carrier and submarine programs, as well as destroyers and amphibious assault ships.

    Northrop Takes Step in Possible Shipbuilding Spinoff Kevin Kingsbury 2010

  • Northrop is still struggling with its shipbuilding unit, the only business where its profit declined.

    Defense Cuts Start to Pinch John Shipman 2010

  • Northrop is supposed to reimburse the Navy when the insurance claim is settled, but if Northrup is paid by the Navy in advance, that might not happen:

    Think Progress » Cochran Delivers $500 Million In “Emergency” Pork To Cash Rich Defense Contractor 2006

  • I was telling lumpybeast about zortified and mpoetess's Small Fries, and she misheard me as saying "Small Frye", as in Northrop Frye.

    August 22nd, 2006 lumpybeast 2006

  • The spectrum that Northrop is requesting for government use is now used by television broadcasters, although they are expected to abandon it when they adopt newer digital technology.

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Northrop: Need More U.S. Spectrum 2003

  • And I hope you will be with us when, once again, Canada's -- and the CBC's -- biggest problem will simply be to grapple, in Northrop Frye's wonderful phrase, with the "exasperated proprietary affection" of a country that has truly got itself together.

    CBC in the Face of Change 1991

  • Professor Northrop is the author of Crystalline Enzymes, published in 1939.

    John H. Northrop - Biography 1964

  • Mark Sanford admits affair, resigns as chairman of Republican Governors Association Chesapeake Police Seek Two Men in Beating of Chanello's Pizza Employee High-ethanol fuel probe expands; at least 12 local stations received tainted gas After 1996 acquittals, NN police officer still fights for his name Northrop inspector filed false reports on welds on up to 13 Navy ships

    unknown title 2009

  • Chesapeake Police Seek Two Men in Beating of Chanello's Pizza Employee High-ethanol fuel probe expands; at least 12 local stations received tainted gas After 1996 acquittals, NN police officer still fights for his name Northrop inspector filed false reports on welds on up to 13 Navy ships

    unknown title 2009

  • Chesapeake Police Seek Two Men in Beating of Chanello's Pizza Employee High-ethanol fuel probe expands; at least 12 local stations received tainted gas After 1996 acquittals, NN police officer still fights for his name Northrop inspector filed false reports on welds on up to 13 Navy ships

    unknown title 2009

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