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  • noun Plural form of institution.

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  • The founder of Rhode Island and nearly all of its leading spirits had been "spewed out of the Bay Colony," -- and the institutions which the Rhode Islanders set up, or rather, their seeming purpose to do without any _institutions_, constituted a standing grievance to the rigid disciplinarians of Massachusetts.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

  • Educational Institutions, I wish to refer neither to the establishments in Bâle nor to the incalculably vast number of other scholastic institutions which exist throughout the nations of the world to-day; but I wish to refer to _German institutions_ of the kind which we rejoice in here.

    On the Future of our Educational Institutions Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

  • Obama's effort to rein in banks isn't likely to hurt the largest financial institutions photo: Creative Commons/Martin H. Iran marks revolution with crackdown on protests banking system, its top central banker said on Tuesday, urging the country to work with President Barack Obama on his financial ­institutions should bear cost of taxpayers 'bailouts financial crises will be ready as soon as April, the deputy managing director of the International

    WN.com - Articles related to Gordon Brown's plan for global bank tax 'a step closer' 2010

  • Obama's effort to rein in banks isn't likely to hurt the largest financial institutions photo: Creative Commons/Martin H. Iran marks revolution with crackdown on protests banking system, its top central banker said on Tuesday, urging the country to work with President Barack Obama on his financial ­institutions should bear cost of taxpayers 'bailouts financial crises will be ready as soon as April, the deputy managing director of the International

    WN.com - Articles related to Gordon Brown's plan for global bank tax 'a step closer' 2010

  • Obama's effort to rein in banks isn't likely to hurt the largest financial institutions photo: Creative Commons/Martin H. Iran marks revolution with crackdown on protests banking system, its top central banker said on Tuesday, urging the country to work with President Barack Obama on his financial ­institutions should bear cost of taxpayers 'bailouts financial crises will be ready as soon as April, the deputy managing director of the International

    WN.com - Articles related to Gordon Brown's plan for global bank tax 'a step closer' 2010

  • Obama's effort to rein in banks isn't likely to hurt the largest financial institutions photo: Creative Commons/Martin H. Iran marks revolution with crackdown on protests banking system, its top central banker said on Tuesday, urging the country to work with President Barack Obama on his financial ­institutions should bear cost of taxpayers 'bailouts financial crises will be ready as soon as April, the deputy managing director of the International

    WN.com - Articles related to Gordon Brown's plan for global bank tax 'a step closer' 2010

  • Additionally, submission of historical and current photos by individuals, schools, historical societies, or other institutions is also encouraged and made possible through this site.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Additionally, submission of historical and current photos by individuals, schools, historical societies, or other institutions is also encouraged and made possible through this site.

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Additionally, submission of historical and current photos by individuals, schools, historical societies, or other institutions is also encouraged and made possible through this site.

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Vermont Landscape Change 2007

  • Additionally, submission of historical and current photos by individuals, schools, historical societies, or other institutions is also encouraged and made possible through this site.

    Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Vermont Landscape Change 2007

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