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  • Last month, a venture led by Stellar Management received a two-year extension of $265 million in senior debt tied to Independence Plaza, a 1,332-unit red- brick property with unobstructed views of the Hudson River, according to Trepp LLC, a real-estate research firm that tracks commercial mortgages.

    Deal Gives Firm Breathing Room Eliot Brown 2011

  • But, unlike those demonstrations that lasted from March to May, the thousands of red- dressed protesters say they will only stay one day.

    Thai Protesters Mark One Year Anniversary of Government Crackdown 2011

  • But, unlike those demonstrations that lasted from March to May, the thousands of red- dressed protesters say they will only stay one day.

    Thai Protesters Mark One Year Anniversary of Government Crackdown 2011

  • Not long after, the closing of the American frontier generated a need for a new one: Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter somehow made the jump from fighting Apaches to fighting red- and green-skinned Martians and wooing the delectable Dejah Thoris in "A Princess of Mars" 1912.

    Attack of the Classics Tom Shippey 2011

  • That's not to say we might not get a red-, blue- and yellow-hued surprise.

    Smallville Exclusive: Up, Up and Away! 2011

  • Donna was thought to have been wearing a multicolored red-, orange-, and green-striped shirt; green slacks; a black maxicoat; a Bulova wristwatch; and an oval-shaped black agate ring.

    The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

  • Donna was thought to have been wearing a multicolored red-, orange-, and green-striped shirt; green slacks; a black maxicoat; a Bulova wristwatch; and an oval-shaped black agate ring.

    The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

  • He was going because his mother had asked him to, and Michael almost always deferred to her, this sixty-seven-year-old dynamo who made batches of translucent red- and green-pepper jelly each Christmas and taught a course in human sexuality to freshmen at Skidmore College, during which she famously put a condom on a banana—although obviously these freshmen could have clothed that banana in latex with their eyes closed.

    The Position Meg Wolitzer 2005

  • Donna was thought to have been wearing a multicolored red-, orange-, and green-striped shirt; green slacks; a black maxicoat; a Bulova wristwatch; and an oval-shaped black agate ring.

    The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

  • In waxy types true new potatoes and common U.S. red- and white-skinned varieties, neighboring cells cohere even when cooked, which gives them a solid, dense, moist texture, and holds them together in intact pieces for gratins, potato cakes, and salads.

    On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004

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