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  • If you want to sell insurance, be a nice old fashioned stody insurance company who pays your executives low six figure salaries.

    Ian Welsh: How To Reform Credit Default Swaps 2009

  • Humanity, being so cool and all, has done what none of those stody old slow types in the galaxy have done, raised non-sentient races to sentient intelligence.

    Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Uplift War - David Brin Blue Tyson 2007

  • I hate to say it, but perhaps this is why Silicon Valley has a difficult problem grasping telephony and consumer electronics, etc. because culturally and historically the Valley did not grow up on this and the grown ups are well, kind of getting old and stody in their ways?

    End of the ATA 2005

  • It is the stody of the soldier, who is torn between love and duty.

    Times Now 2010

  • It is the stody of the soldier, who is torn between love and duty.

    Times Now 2010

  • The former The O.C. Burglar Bunch 'ringleader' In Protective C.stody After Death Threats more images more imagesThe alleged ringleader of the gang accused of burgling the homes of LINDSAY LOHAN and RAC.EL BILSON has been placed in protective custody after receiving

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • But oft theyr folysshe stody retournes to theyr myschaunce

    The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

  • For by what stody myght be more holely or better socour mankynde than by suche doctrynes as he gaue.

    The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489

  • Carliner in the Centrel part of the island at the priskple Church thair hee beutifly addressed the freedmen of this island after his adress a grate many of the peple understanding what was said they got aroused & awoke to perfict sense to stody for them Selves what part of this law would rest against us, wee said in rafarence to what he said that nothing did apier at that time to bee very opressing upon us but the one thing that is wee freedmen should

    From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865, 1865

  • Also in the spirit of moving things forward, what sort of field study or greenhouse stody would best test bender’s hypothesis.

    Survivorship Bias « Climate Audit 2006

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