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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Japan, a generic name for edible roots, such as yams, potatoes, sweet-potatoes, and taro. Used alone without a qualifying prefix, it is especially applied in Japan and in Korea to the taro, Caladium Colocasia, which is also called in Japan sato-imo. See Colocasia, taro, and
gabi .
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- noun the United Nations agency concerned with international maritime activities
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Examples
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This imo is the problem with individually purchased health insurance, the individual is too easily weeded out so that only the healthy can afford insurance.
Health Insurance Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The best solution, imo, is to allow landlords to declare housing smoke-free, with the ability to evict based on breaking that rule.
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The most important point imo is that we need some path to legalization – otherwise, no matter what health care system we devise, we will have a subset living in the shadows, only coming out for emergency care.
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The way to deal with that, imo, is as much transparency as prudently possible.
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BASEketball is simple good ol 'fashioned fun - not as classic a spoof as both Airplane movies (in imo) but good fun nonetheless.
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One of the beauties of Pixar imo is that they leave the film as is, not needing a sequel to possibly tarnish a film's reputation by simply adding to the plot of the original.
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The only way Mccain will win imo is if clinton supporters put em over the top but I wonder, if this include's them then not even that will be enough (I pray).
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Any adult sf/f author that gets on the YA bandwagon because that's where the money is, imo is selling out.
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McSame, imo, is not the right person for the country at this time.
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I just don't believe he was thrown in there for the sake of it and yes, imo, is a definite sign of things to come (great things, hence, why in the Ironman movie, S.H.I.E.L.D. was constantly brought up - what, three-four times?).
The Future of Iron Man: Alcoholic Tony Stark, War Machine, and Beyond! « FirstShowing.net 2008
Tyanna commented on the word imo
in my opinion, must have this for online commentary :-)
February 5, 2012