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Abitibi-Consolidated

Following the death of Price Sr sons William Evan Price and Evans John Price took over and the firm became Price Brothers and Company Limited.

Alamo: The Price of Freedom

Alamo: The Price of Freedom is a 1988 American IMAX film starring Merrill Connally as Davy Crockett, Casey Biggs as William Barret Travis, Enrique Sandino as Antonio López de Santa Anna, Steve Sandor as James Bowie, Don Swayze as James Bonham, and Derek Caballero as Juan Seguín.

Bochs

Bochs started as a program with a commercial license, at the price of 25 USD, for use as-is.

Bryan Price

Price was the Arizona Diamondbacks pitching coach until May 7, 2009, when he resigned after manager Bob Melvin was replaced by A. J. Hinch.

Call Out the Marines

It stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe playing the same characters with different names that they played in What Price Glory? and several sequels; however the original film trailer mentions What Price Glory? and The Cock-Eyed World.

Calum Price

Price took his first first-class wicket with the dismissal of Simon Mugava who nicked the ball to the keeper, and then also clean-bowled Justin Lewis.

Canon EOS 550D

The British Journal of Photography was impressed by the 550D and said "the EOS 550D is a good match for the 7D at half the price".

Chase Price

By his father's first marriage to Anne Barnsley of Knighton, only daughter and heiress of John Barnsley, he was the half-brother of John Price (died 1780), Barrister from The Lodge, Clerk of Chancery at Leominster, unmarried, and of Henry Price (1722–1795), married in 1770 to Elizabeth Foley, daughter of Captain Thomas Foley, and had female issue.

Color killer

Based on information from owners of electricity appliance stores, the report estimated that 90% of those who bought color TV sets also bought the anti-mekhikon device, whose price ranged between 2,500 and 4,000 Israeli lirot (the TV set itself cost 40-50 thousand lirot).

Darleen Druyun

Druyun pleaded guilty to inflating the price of the contract to favor her future employer and to passing information on the competing Airbus A330 MRTT bid (from EADS).

Diverted

Marion Price (Joanne Whalley) and Andrew Tyler (Colin Buchanan) are passengers who find solace in each other for their depressing lives.

Dodge Tomahawk

Hand-built examples of the Tomahawk were offered for sale through the Neiman Marcus catalog at a price of US$ 555,000, and up to nine of them might have sold.

Energy in Jordan

Proposals for the 30-40 megawatt (MW) plant at Kamshah, near Jerash, have been delayed several times over the price of electricity tariffs quoted by the winning bidder.

Evan Lloyd

Price sued for libel, leading to Lloyd being fined and imprisoned for a short time, although his imprisonment led to his befriending John Wilkes, a fellow inmate.

Food riot

Oxfam added that a one percent increase in the price of food could lead to 16 million more falling below the poverty line.

French nobility

High positions in regional parlements, tax boards (chambres des comptes), and other important financial and official state offices (usually bought at high price) conferred nobility, generally in two generations, although membership in the Parlements of Paris, Dauphiné, Besançon and Flanders, as well as on the tax boards of Paris, Dole and Grenoble elevated an official to nobility in one generation.

George Cadle Price

George Price completed his education at St. John's College High School While there he was exposed to the teachings of Catholic social justice, in particular the encyclical Rerum Novarum.

George Weston Limited

Meanwhile, a new advertising campaign featured Canadian actor William Shatner of Star Trek fame, who told television audiences to "Come on over to Loblaws" and "More than the price is right....but by gosh the price is right." In 1974, W. Galen Weston was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of George Weston Limited, and subsequently company President.

Helen Schelle

Alongside businessman Herman Fisher and Price's wife, Illustrator Margaret Evans Price, the Fisher-Price Company was formally established later that year in East Aurora, New York.

History of perpetual motion machines

Guido Franch reportedly had a process of transmuting water molecules into high-octane gasoline compounds (named Mota fuel) that would reduce the price of gasoline to 8 cents per gallon.

Imagineering Australia

November 1989: The MyPC, basically an Ultra XT using cut-price components and secondhand CPUs in brightly coloured chassis, was released for sale through Grace Brothers and Myer stores at Christmas.

Interest rate cap and floor

The overheads, and in particular the processing costs can drive the price differential between larger loans from banks and smaller loans from MFIs.

Irving Klaw Trio

The band, named after Irving Klaw, was started when founding members Jeff Fuccillo, Jason Funk and Andrew Price met at the Evergreen State College.

John la Zouche, 7th Baron Zouche, 8th Baron St Maur

He owed something to the help of the prominent courtier Sir Reginald Bray, for which he paid a heavy price, selling him several manors at an undervalue.

Karl Heeremans

From this time on, numerous awards and recognitions were presented to him, such as the 1964 - price of Namur, Belgium 1962–1967 Italian Olivetti, Knokke and Ronse, Belgium and Cannes, France.

La Musica Lirica

Recent conductors, stage directors and vocal faculty include Alberto Zedda, Joseph Rescigno, Candace Evans, Francois Loup, Dejan Miladinovic, Ubaldo Fabbri, Julia Faulkner, Mary Anne Scott, Karen Peeler, John DeHaan, Kathy Kraulik, Brooks Hafey, Robert Breault, Emily Williams, Jeffrey Price and Dennis Jesse.

Lake of Bays, Ontario

The lake scenes from the Canadian film starring Gordon Pinsent called Away From Her were also shot in the township on the south shore of Lake of Bays across from Price's Point.

Los Teques Metro

The ride between Las Adjuntas and Alí Primera as of January 2, 2007 is 1,500 bolívares (1.5 bolívares fuertes, 75 US cents) for a one way ride and the price includes a subway ride within the Caracas Metro network.

Marianne des Français series

Before March 2005, a letter for France or the Western Europa cost the same price ; since March 2005, a letter for a country of the European Union cost 2 cents more (0.55 €).

MS Princesa Marissa

However, she stayed in finnlines traffic for the time being, as a buyer wasn't found until September 1977 when she was sold to Birka Line, Finland, with the price of 50 million Swedish kronor, to be delivered in January 1978.

Pavilion for Japanese Art

Before entering the embrace of LACMA, the pavilion was first designed to be built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where Price had assembled his extensive collection, and then was later redesigned as a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Pete Price

Shortly after, Price made his first appearance on the comedy scene at Liverpool's 'The Shakespeare', working at various venues which include The Palladium and the QE2.

Petroleum pricing in Nova Scotia

The price of gasoline and diesel fuel are based on the price on the New York Mercantile Exchange as a benchmark in Canadian funds.

Predictably Irrational

In other words, decisions about future LCD television purchases become coherent after an initial price has been established in the consumer's mind.

Price adjustment

Quantity adjustment, a concept in economics related to changes in price and quantity

Price County, Wisconsin

Price County was created on March 3, 1879, when Wisconsin Governor William E. Smith signed legislation creating the county.

Price-based selling

Best Buy has always been known for their price-matching guarantee as well.

Raheem DeVaughn

DeVaughn took a job at Tower Records, where while putting price tags on CDs, he began working the D.C. music circuit—performing with various groups, the most prominent of which being Urbanave31, and at venues such as the State of the Union and Bar Nun on U Street NW, all while having CDs of his songs ready at hand.

Rose Valley, Pennsylvania

Price's vision may have been modelled on the utopian socialist society described in News from Nowhere by William Morris.

St. Scholastica's Academy Marikina

Then owner of Marikina Heights Subdivision Mr. Jose Tuason, Sr. offered the lot to the Benedictine sisters of Tutzing at a very low price.

Sun Carriage

Relocating to Camden and joined by fellow Plymouth exile Chris Leech on second guitar they recorded the "Sun Carriage/Determined" (written by Ron Price) demo 7" (very rare, only about ten were pressed) for the fledgling Head Records run by Jeff Barrett (later the founder of Heavenly).

Tevfik Fikret Ucar

Two years later, he received first price award on Symbol Design Award for Bursaray Bursa, city railway transportation system competition.

To Pay the Price

To Pay the Price is a 2009 play by Peter-Adrian Cohen based in part on the letters of Israeli hero Yonatan Netanyahu, who was killed in action during Operation Entebbe at Entebbe airport, by Ugandan soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued hostages after an aircraft hijacking by Palestinian terrorists.

Tomáš Poštulka

In 2001 the ambitious team FK Teplice offered Sparta a big transfer price and Postulka moved to North Bohemia.

Trams in Alexandria

The price of a single Tram Al Ramlh ride is uniformly L.E. 0.25, except on the single-car touristic heritage tram that runs from Boulkly to Mhatat al-Ramlh, for which fare is L.E. 1.

Treatment Action Campaign

Heywood was a panelist in a plenary session co-chaired by CNN's Sanjay Gupta entitled "Time to Deliver: The Price of Inaction".

Tulsa Shock

Tulsa Pro Hoops LLC, composed of Bill Cameron and David Box (majority owners), and Chris Christian, Pat Chernicky, Sam and Rita Combs, Pat and Don Hardin, Paula Marshall, Stuart and Linda Price, and Katie and Scott Schofield (2010–present)

UCL Academy

In March 2010 Sylvia Jones, headteacher at Valentines High School in Ilford, Essex, was appointed as the first Principal of the Academy, and Professor David Price, Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL, as Chair of the Academy Governing Body.

Warboys

The traditional dialect of Warboys recorded in the SED was characterised by a 'Canadian raising' type alternation in the vowel of the PRICE lexical set.

William Price Williamson

Another descendant of Confederate Chief Engineer William Price Williamson is Admiral Dennis C. Blair, United States Navy (Ret.), nominated for the post of Director of National Intelligence in the Obama administration.


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