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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Washington on the Columbia River near Kennewick. It was developed in 1943–1945 to house employees of the nearby Hanford Site, a federal research facility that made plutonium for nuclear weapons.
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A search for [west richland real estate] reveals an ad for a company in Richland, PA.
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing 2008
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His job will be in Richland, WA, not Richland, OR, so it's not as far away.
May 28th, 2009 ouchouch 2009
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Says one grandma in Richland, Texas: Thanks Fox for letting me know!
Death threats for Tea Party coloring book publisher Steven E. Levingston 2010
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Trout had been born and raised in Richland County.
Gone Fishin' 2009
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Com, there will be a independent/fan film festival this Saturday, February 7 in Richland, WA.
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Designing and manufacturing such a lens is not a trivial task, says Jordan Maclay, chief scientist at Quantum Fields, based in Richland Center, WI.
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The second site in Richland County site is currently in the permitting process.
Google Announces $600M Data Center in South Carolina | Impact Lab 2007
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Scientists at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland and at the University of Nebraska report in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that they have discovered hollow molecular structures made of pure gold -- golden buckyballs.
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My family still lives in Richland and they are not happy that I live in Mexico.
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My family still lives in Richland and they are not happy that I live in Mexico.
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