The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Including the Private as Well as the Official and Scientific Correspondence Together with the Unmutilated and Correct Version of the Autobiography, Volume 7G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1904 - Statesmen |
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... expected 2.5 percent drop in pork production . Beef and veal production is likely to fall only slightly . Lamb , mutton and goat meat production is expected to remain at 4.6 million metric tons . Poultry meat production is forecast to ...
... expected 2.5 percent drop in pork production . Beef and veal production is likely to fall only slightly . Lamb , mutton and goat meat production is expected to remain at 4.6 million metric tons . Poultry meat production is forecast to ...
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... expected to raise short - term interest rates 50 basis points ( one - half percent ) in first - half 2000 , helping to keep the rise in inflation- measured by the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ) to less than half a percentage point in 2000 ...
... expected to raise short - term interest rates 50 basis points ( one - half percent ) in first - half 2000 , helping to keep the rise in inflation- measured by the Consumer Price Index ( CPI ) to less than half a percentage point in 2000 ...
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... expected to rise moderately , but the increase will be small relative to potential export supplies - from both developed and less developed exporters . Consequently , continued downward pressures on prices are expected . Demand ...
... expected to rise moderately , but the increase will be small relative to potential export supplies - from both developed and less developed exporters . Consequently , continued downward pressures on prices are expected . Demand ...
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... expected to peak in fiscal year. Efforts. to. Meet. Increased. Passport. Demand. 2009. Although the volume of passport applications is much smaller than NIV applications, adjudicating passport applications for American citizens takes ...
... expected to peak in fiscal year. Efforts. to. Meet. Increased. Passport. Demand. 2009. Although the volume of passport applications is much smaller than NIV applications, adjudicating passport applications for American citizens takes ...
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... expected within the forecast horizon . Nevertheless , the ad- ditions to nuclear capacity that are already in the pipeline and scheduled to come on line over the next 5 years are expected to reduce the share of coal in supplying ...
... expected within the forecast horizon . Nevertheless , the ad- ditions to nuclear capacity that are already in the pipeline and scheduled to come on line over the next 5 years are expected to reduce the share of coal in supplying ...
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Page 389 - Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
Page 387 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Page 389 - Now there was a day when the sons of GOD came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Page 70 - MR. STRAHAN, You are a member of parliament, and one of that majority which has doomed my country to destruction. — You have begun to burn our towns, and murder our people. — Look upon your hands! — They are stained with the blood of your relations ! — You and I were long friends: — You are now my enemy, — and I am • Yours, B. FRANKLIN.
Page 389 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 48 - Massachusetts must suffer all the hazards and mischiefs of war, rather than admit the alteration of their charters and laws by parliament. " They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Page 116 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 389 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Page 56 - Colony, for contributing their proportion to the common defence (such proportion to be raised under the authority...
Page 68 - You know it was said he carried the sword in one hand, and the olive branch in the other; and it seems he chose to give them a taste of the sword first.