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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A town of southeast Switzerland north of Saint Moritz. A fashionable resort, it is noted as the site of an annual international economic summit.
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- proper noun a mountain resort in Switzerland, known as the host to the World Economic Forum
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Photo: Mundie speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Friday, Jan. 30, 2009.
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I was lodged in Davos in the master bedroom, with Traci and Kim Jollow (Zimring).
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While pundits call Davos a fancy Swiss resort town that hosts a schmooze-athon for the world's biggest egos, they also comment if they've been here that it provides an unparalleled networking opportunity that can, at its best, lead to real progress in a political or business sense.
Hired in Davos Trevor Richard Dougherty 2011
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Davos is also a man who takes his religion seriously, and here lies the source of many of his doubts.
A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin « I Can’t Stop Reading! 2008
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Davos is a commoner raised to a knight, and suffers slights from the other nobles who wait on Stannis.
A Clash of Kings by George RR Martin « I Can’t Stop Reading! 2008
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Davos is a commoner raised to a knight, and suffers slights from the other nobles who wait on Stannis.
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Davos is also a man who takes his religion seriously, and here lies the source of many of his doubts.
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Not only did it create a class of “phone ladies” who brought wealth into village communities, it has grown quickly enough and been profitable enough that Mr. Yunus said this week in Davos that Telenor had decided to break its original promise to his organization and refused to turn over control to allow the program to be run on a not-for-profit basis.
Many Are Already at Work on Fulfilling Gates’s Vision - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Davos is also a man who takes his religion seriously, and here lies the source of many of his doubts.
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Davos is a commoner raised to a knight, and suffers slights from the other nobles who wait on Stannis.
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