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  • Cartopia, Kelly Rodgers and Kelley Roy note how the city's winking approach extends to nomenclature, since permanently parked catering trucks are dubbed "Stationary Mobile Units."

    Thestar.com - Home Page Kenneth Kidd 2011

  • Sarah says she was "whoopin 'and hollerin'" while watching Bristol's performance last week and wonders "How does she do that?" and then demonstrates a dance move best described as a Stationary Shimmy: arms outretched, almost imperceptible shoulder motion, and vocalizing "woo woo"; it's a move that says "no one will ever make an opposition commercial out of this moment."

    'Dancing with Stars': quick steps, Sarah Palin -- and Great Booing Debate Lisa de Moraes 2010

  • In a suit filed in a California federal court, the International Union of Operating Engineers, Stationary Engineers Local 39, alleged that Bank of New York Mellon Corp. didn't follow federal pension-fund guidelines when it traded currencies for the union.

    California Union Sues BNY Mellon Over Currency Trades Carrick Mollenkamp 2011

  • They owned and operated a stationary store in the Fruitvale District of Oakland until they had the opportunity to buy the Grand Avenue Stationary Store which they operated until retirement.

    Becky London – A Short Biography of Jack London's Daughter 2010

  • Stationary 2 letters of Recognition from late Pres Reagan and this current President G. Bush in Recognition of his service to our Country.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • More Heard: Australia Central Bank's Stationary Swerve BOJ Surprise Sends Yen Tumbling Japanese Yields Drop After BOJ Move The BOJ acted under pressure from the government to do more to promote growth and take the steam out of the high yen, which his stymied the critical export sector.

    Bank of Japan Cuts Key Rate Megumi Fujikawa 2010

  • The next time I saw Dr. Chatterjee, I asked him to write the Permanent and Stationary report, which would allow me to leave San Francisco and still be eligible for medical care elsewhere.

    Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011

  • Stationary also used to mean stationery; both terms derive from the Latin stationarius, stationery arriving indirectly by stationer + - y.

    Stationary stationery 2009

  • Emergency home telephone numbers for civil servants to be alerted out of hours are included in the file, ranging from senior Ministry of Defence staff to the officials at Her Majesty's Stationary Office.

    Gems from National Archives unearthed after the 30-year rule 2011

  • Stationary means immobile or apparently immobile, not moving, fixed in a station, or not changing in quantity, course, or condition.

    Stationary stationery 2009

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