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  • KING: "Fairly rudimentary" was the term Vice President Cheney used in an interview I had with him a little more than a week ago when he was discussing this technology.

    CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2006 2006

  • In 2000, he assumed the title Vice President of Leasing and he was named Senior Vice President, Director of

    Glimcher Names Thomas J. Drought, Jr. Executive Vice President - Yahoo! Finance 2011

  • She comes to PBS from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting where she rose to finally hold the title Vice President,

    B&C - Advertising News 2009

  • He had come face to face with what he called Vice for the first time, and found it not at all what he had supposed it to be.

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • This is a reissue of their 2007 album on their new label Vice (it originally came out on the Hazelwood label) and like last year's excellent, career-spanning compilation

    The Big Takeover 2009

  • Fitting punishment for a man who had once been so immersed in a world of sin that he’d earned the nickname Vice from his comrades-in-debauchery.

    The Pleasure Seekers Melanie George 2003

  • Fitting punishment for a man who had once been so immersed in a world of sin that he’d earned the nickname Vice from his comrades-in-debauchery.

    The Pleasure Seekers Melanie George 2003

  • Vice is an inferior choice for young women, and when it is offered, they should choose the superior things that improve their character and increase their learning.

    Straight From the Heart 2009

  • Vice is an inferior choice for young women, and when it is offered, they should choose the superior things that improve their character and increase their learning.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • The touchstone for Inherent Vice is prettyclearly the fiction of Raymond Chandler in novels such as The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely, and it could equally be said that Chandler's own work evinces a good deal of epistemological skepticism itself, and Philip Marlowe is frequently portrayed as attempting to hack his way through "thickets" of misdirection.

    What's Going On? 2010

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  • "8. capitalized The stock buffoon in the old English moralities, or moral plays, sometimes having the name of one specific vice, as Fraud, Envy, Covetousness, sometimes of Vice in general. See iniquity'>iniquity, 4."

    -- from the Cent. Dict. definition for vice

    June 29, 2011