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He even spent some years with the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, the primary rules setter for the profession.

And of course, you could run up a hell of a debt after your primary schooling taking accreditation at the Academy up north, but that was different.

His fellow-workmen, without delay, wound a piece of rope around each bleeding member, and the man recovered after primary amputation of each stump.

Laedo assumed its orbital speed was controlled artificially, rather than dictated by the equally artificial gravity of its primary.

By associating various mathematical problems with his constructive exercises, the teacher can frequently cause the pupil to transfer in some degree his primary interest in manual training to the associated work in arithmetic.

Digen had felt just this so often at the brink of attrition, at the gathering of a fourth primary abort, at the lip of sudden death.

Bronchitis both acute and chronic, chronic pneumonia and phthisis, acute pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia, may all leave after them a bronchiectasis whose position is determined by the primary lesion.

The clan, the central power behind House Metalline, was the primary producer of weapons-quality steel in the kingdom of Silvanesti.

The primary type were simply lumps of nickel-iron with a monomolecular surface layer sensitized to collect up to three days worth of images, and provided with a tiny internal drive unit that would explode on order from the ship or any attempt to block or interfere with the free movement of the device.

The Moon Moorn did not remain forever excluded from the sun by its giant primary.

With Sexton trailing badly in the primary polls and his message of government overspending falling on deaf ears, Gabrielle Ashe wrote him a note suggesting a radical new campaign angle.

The tech mouthed fear-words, palmed a primary switch on the weatherboard.

Our primary purpose throughout being practical, it is impossible to devote unlimited time and space to proceeding formally through the known forms of life in order to marshal all the proofs or a tithe of them, that all individuals are invented and tolerated by Nature for parenthood or its service.

It tidied its parroty plumage and aligned its antigravity primaries with fussy movements, then lifted its tail to splatter the ledge beneath the post.

He has overlapped as fully as seems possible the tertiary, secondary, and primary performative levels of theatricality, social roles, and discourse, and amid the resulting confusion he has insisted that we make the distinctions necessary to judgment.