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At 25.2 inches from right foot to left index finger, the carving is "amongst the largest ivory fi gures ever made" in Renaissance and Baroque times, writes ivory expert Eike Schmidt, head of the Minneapolis Institute of Art's Department of Decorative Arts, Textiles & Sculpture, in an essay commissioned for a catalogue on the work.
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According to a DynCorp spokesperson, releasing government audit reports would make public cost-per-employee figures that could help competitors undercut DynCorp in future bids.
David Isenberg: Outsourcing War and Peace: Part 4 David Isenberg 2011
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One of the doctors on the UK committee that set our guidelines in 1987, Richard Smith, recently admitted the fi gures came from a pooling of experience rather than precise calculations.
A is for Alcohol 2009
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One of the doctors on the UK committee that set our guidelines in 1987, Richard Smith, recently admitted the fi gures came from a pooling of experience rather than precise calculations.
A is for Alcohol 2009
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Despite her acid remarks about the British viewing public, she knew the large viewing fi gures lay with Mr. and Mrs. Average.
Death of a Scriptwriter Beaton, M. C. 1998
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It was not actually snowing, but a vicious wind was blowing little blizzards across their vision from the snowy fi elds on either side of the road, where occasionally the humped fi gures of sheep could be seen.
Death of a Scriptwriter Beaton, M. C. 1998
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He knocked on the glass, but the still fi gures did not stir.
Death of a Scriptwriter Beaton, M. C. 1998
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F.gures quite similar to those of Sommerlad are given by C.F. Bastable in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_, s.v. "Money."
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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The following description is taken from a most interesting essay entitled _Vibration F.gures_, by F. Bligh Bond, F.R.I.B.A., who has drawn a number of remarkable figures by the use of pendulums.
Thought-Forms Annie Wood Besant 1890
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According to a DynCorp spokesperson, releasing government audit reports would make public cost-per-employee figures that could help competitors undercut DynCorp in future bids.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com David Isenberg 2011
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