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aw ger

  • n  a long flexible steel coil for dislodging stoppages in curved pipes
  • n  hand tool for boring holes

  • Cause of the disease is a trypanosome, protozoon which under the microscope resembles an auger.
  • A rasp, a plane, a hammer, an auger, a gimlet, an adze, a cubit rule, a saw, and three chisels for paring, as well as a gouge--all were mine.
  • Using dynamite, bulldozers, great augers and earth movers, working on the surface rather than below ground, strip miners now produce 37% of the nation's annual coal output.
News & Articles

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    BRIDGEPORT -- St. Vincent 's Medical Center will eliminate 100 positions this week, which could result in nearly 50 layoffs. Of those positions cut, 48 were filled with workers who would have to be laid off, said Diane Auger , vice president of St. Vincent's Health Services , of which the hospital is a part.
    June 11, 2013 - Connecticut Post
  • LATEST NEWS
    BRIDGEPORT -- St. Vincent 's Medical Center will eliminate 100 positions this week, which could result in nearly 50 layoffs. Of those positions cut, 48 were filled with workers who would have to be laid off, said Diane Auger , vice president of St. Vincent's Health Services , of which the hospital is a part.
    June 11, 2013 - Connecticut Post
Quotes

  • James Cronin in Independent Online
    We have taken a big step forward in solving the mystery of the nature and origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays, first revealed by the French physicist Pierre Auger in 1938,said the University of Chicago's James Cronin, a Nobel laureate...
  • Shaukat Aziz in International Herald Tribune
    On Friday, Aziz told Cabinet ministers at his office that Musharraf's re-election "will auger well for the stability, progress and prosperity of Pakistan and move the country further on the path of democracy," the statement said.

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