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  • abbreviation rural delivery

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  • abbreviation astronomy red dwarf

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Examples

  • All Truman has to do, then, is call RD and tell him the result of the measurement.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

  • I just wanted to also add that although RD is a familiar and addictive site, please be aware that we do have lives of our own and often times they are personal issues that will require us to be away.

    RD in transition 2007

  • The reason the address 2 Monkey Run RD is used instead of 2 Forest Lane is because the post office has no problem with it and (IMO) there is less of a chance of mail getting misrouted.

    Living in Dryden: Turkey Hill and Monkey Run 2004

  • Earlysville RD is okay unless you get behind a speed demon who is going 30 mph. 29 is a litte ticky, You have to up through Airport Rd which you can get stuck behind a car who is going straight.

    Yet Another Shopping Center at cvillenews.com 2003

  • Earlysville RD is okay unless you get behind a speed demon who is going 30 mph. 29 is a litte ticky, You have to up through Airport Rd which you can get stuck behind a car who is going straight.

    Yet Another Shopping Center at cvillenews.com 2003

  • But liberalisation could discourage long-term RD&D by emphasising short-term profits.

    Chapter 10 2000

  • Yun behaved himself after he got out of jail in 1991, but was arrested again on April 15th, and is now accused of negotiating with South Koreans to obtain Russian RD-180 rocket engine technology for them.

    StrategyPage.com 2009

  • But when we ask about some production he's been doing for a new major-label girlband called RD he gets cagey.

    How Rinse FM, the radio station behind Dizzee Rascal and Katy B, keeps it salty 2011

  • The classical recipe tells him to simply measure the polarization of the photon, then call RD on the phone, and tell him how to prepare an identical state.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

  • The back of the RD was the last vestige of the golden age of illustration.

    Wednesday, August 19 – The Bleat. 2009

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