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Fujitsu Scan of a palm's vein pattern About 4,000 business programs at 1,800 universities, including most top-ranked institutions, require the GMAT for admission.
Business Schools 2008
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The palm's trunk is over 18 metres (58.5 feet) high and its leaves are an extraordinary five metres (16.25 feet) in diameter, which could make them the largest ever known among flowering plants.
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Like the human heart, the palm's hardens with age; thus, harvesting of too-young açaí trees is a temptation and a hazard to the health of the Amazon forest.
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Secrecy, though, surrounded the palm's taxonomic name.
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There lay Ingegerd, her face not a palm's breadth from his.
Bridge of the Separator Turtledove, Harry 2005
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The dwarf palm's fronds seemed to nod in agreement.
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The dwarf palm's fronds seemed to nod in agreement.
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He rubbed his hands on the rough, ringed surfaces that occupied a half a palm's width circle before and slightly above each ear.
The Saturn Game Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1981
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I want every palm's width of that ship's surface searched and all the ground around it!
The Zero Stone Norton, Andre 1968
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In color it was dark blue, which and it had a border of the same metal thread, a palm's width deep, which weighed it down, swinging about my ankles.
Sorceress of the Witch World Norton, Andre 1968
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