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NASA and the Orion industry team conducted the firing at the Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, facility in Promontory, Utah.
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NASA and the Orion industry team conducted the firing at the Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, facility in Promontory, Utah.
Orion Launch Abort Motor Test (with Video) - NASA Watch 2008
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Promontory, which is run by a gold-plated group of former federal banking officials, arranges for wealthy investors to put just under $100,000 in each of a slew of banks.
James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Dirty Elections Edition 2008
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A Promontory is a high piece of land, stretching out into the sea, the extremity whereof is commonly called a Cape.
A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
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May 10, 1869, and even the small station known as Promontory is at some distance from that point where the connection between the two transcontinental roads was originally made.
The Great Salt Lake Trail Henry Inman 1868
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But the base cheese, the starting point for all these embellished creations, is a cheddar-style called Promontory.
SFGate: Top News Stories Janet Fletcher 2011
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Now fenced off - the former residents moved into other Hunters View units - the hillside will be reshaped before work begins on three blocks of housing and an adjacent open space now called Promontory Park.
SFGate: Top News Stories John King 2010
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Baryth is, in all probability, the name which the native Africans gave to the cape which the Romans called the Promontory of Apollo.
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There is a scene in the chapter called "Promontory" in which Auralia has to make a crucial decision.
An Interview With Jeffrey Overstreet Tia Nevitt 2008
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There is a scene in the chapter called "Promontory" in which Auralia has to make a crucial decision.
Archive 2008-01-01 Tia Nevitt 2008
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