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- initialism computer hardware
floating-point unit
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Bond formed a coalition with the new Fishermen's Protective Union ( '' 'FPU' ''), led by William Ford Coaker.
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CONGO: Construction contract award for planned $400,000,000 floating production unit (FPU), HYUNDAI HEAVY INDUSTRIES (HHI) [South Korea] Order #: 090505.
TV doc on copper mining in D.R. Congo nominated for investigative reporting award 2009
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At the gift shop, I want to get something with the FPU logo, a big red U surrounding a fish.
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In 1913, the FPU held eight seats in Newfoundland's House of Assembly.
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Through Coaker's FPU, fishers and their families challenged the "merchant system," which was the maritme equivalent of sharecropping.
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There's not even a pamphlet about the FPU, just stuffed puffins and other generic Newfoundland gifts.
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After so manee kitteh lolpix, teh cyootness ob dah pandah tuk mii toadalee unnawares NAWT unnerwares, FPU oar ovverwies.
IZE SORRY I ENDANJURED U - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The FPU formed a political party, and in 1912 ran on a platform of radical social change.
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One of the other things I learned while I was at FPU was that “evangelicals” are not a monolithic block at all.
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We heard a story about some bad blood between the Ryans and our friend William Coaker of the FPU, who of course were on opposite sides of the political spectrum.
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