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Who's Buying : Jeffrey Ponzo , a retail executive, is still marveling at the deal he got on his ranch-style home with a pool and tennis court in East Quogue, N.Y. The 45-year old New Yorker closed this month on the $950,000 home; a year earlier, it was listed for $1.1 million, he says.
Vacation Homes: Why It May Be Time to Buy Jessica Silver-Greenberg 2011
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Rosemary Ponzo, who arrived encased in a structure that simulated the night sky, had started working on her costume back in February.
Bringing Out The Inner Kid Marshall Heyman 2010
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Harry Markopolos, the whistleblower who tried to persuade the SEC that Bernard Madoff was running a Ponzo scheme, blasted the agency's program last year.
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Harry Markopolos, the whistleblower who tried to persuade the SEC that Bernard Madoff was running a Ponzo scheme, blasted the agency's program last year.
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For example, he points out that well known visual illusions, such as the Ponzo and Müller-Lyer illusions, continue to deceive us even when we know perfectly well that they are illusions (figure 4. 4.1_1).
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The two horizontal lines in both the Ponzo and the Müller-Lyer figures continue to look as though they are of different lengths even when we have measured them and are quite convinced that they are, in fact, the same.
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& Blough, P.M. (1991) “Pigeons see the Ponzo illusion.”
Animal Consciousness Allen, Colin 2006
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Returne wee now to the Pyrates, which at Ponzo seized on the small Barke wherein Madame Beritola was brought thither, and carried thence away, without any sight or knowledge of her.
The Decameron 2004
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Having provided her selfe of a Nurse, they altogether went aboard againe, setting sayle for Naples to visit her Parents; but it chanced quite contrary to her expectation, because by stormie windes and weather, the vessell being bound for Naples, was hurried to the Ile of Ponzo, where entring into a small Port of the Sea, they concluded to make their aboade, till a time more furtherous should favour their voyage.
The Decameron 2004
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Magistrate Judge Ronald Bush disagreed, saying if Ponzo had changed he would have stepped forward and faced the criminal charges from his past.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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