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  • Did yoo hav taim to hyde teh trum pitz an teh rozes?

    Monorail kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Programs like ABA (although it is often criticized by those who do not understand how it is done these days) strive to teach skills to whose on the spec trum, be it basic language or higher math.

    William Stillman: Autism: The Last Human Rights Movement 2009

  • Questionnaires administered to a wide spec­trum of practising managers has elicited the same response time and again: they would prefer to have personnel less skilled but with a strong base in the right values because they realize that management devoid of values becomes mere manipulation just as politics bereft of philosophy degenerates into opportunism.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Questionnaires administered to a wide spec­trum of practising managers has elicited the same response time and again: they would prefer to have personnel less skilled but with a strong base in the right values because they realize that management devoid of values becomes mere manipulation just as politics bereft of philosophy degenerates into opportunism.

    The Indian concept of leadership is based on the ‘Rajarshi’ model Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • March 22, 2008 at 8:09 am step awai frum teh tramp…… trum…….teh jumpy ting. cud chainj teh lyfe as yew noes it!

    Okay. When they start - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • People pay a bundle to hear trum here at the Javit Center.

    "Buy American. I Am." Ann Althouse 2008

  • But to get back to the point, though, this little Dan-trum is about more than the blisteringly obvious point that Williams is posturing for his by-election campaign and that he doesn't have anything to offer the electorate but hot air, flop sweat, a dozen "quite franklys" and a lecture on the price of pride.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • It can be pretty smart politics for the short-term, but there are more and more people who are privately questioning the Dan-trum approach to life.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • For those of us who saw that story before the Dan-trum in Gander, and who understand the issues involved in Equalization and the offshore offset deals, we can understand why Nova Scotia premier Rodney Macdonald isn't issuing any ultimata to Ottawa.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Ed Hollett 2006

  • As the sun sank behind the mountains in the west, trum-peters in two crisp lines on the temple steps announced Khi-santh's arrival.

    The Black Wing Kirchoff, Mary 1993

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