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... exporters in many fields often to the neglect of useful by-products. Treating hides as a by-product of the bovine industries has held Thailand’s own leather industry back. This book explains means by which it can be advanced to both national and commercial benefit. Because of the low quality of local hides in Thailand as in other developing countries, the end users in th...

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...ntegrated Approach for Traceability A Model Hide Cluster and Transaction Chain KU Beef Cooperative KU Slaughterhouse Hide Salting Research Unit Thai Leather Cluster Research Memorandum of Understandings The Value of the Hide Cluster Model 86 87 89 90 91 94 95 96 99 Chapter 4 - Salting and Technical Innovations 101 Preliminary Testing 102 Full Capacity Drum Salting 102...

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...his head and quietly manoeuvred to locate his seat in the boardroom, the board stopped chatting, setting all their eyes on him until he sat down. The leather chair made an awkward squeaky sound but he sat down anyway, forcing the candy down his throat. ‘Well, the golden boy is here so shall we begin now . . . Poppa?’ said Cannon Johnson Jr., also known in the office and po...

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...eir bags before they got stolen. “Excuse me!” On seeing the booth still empty, she exclaimed, “Oh, thank God!” In a hurry, she climbed onto the red leather cushion on all fours, her mind still on men, not wanting the distraction of them, and on her drunken friend who was probably surrounded by them this very minute. In her haste, up went the hem of her very tight, little...

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.... . . xvii Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 PART 1 Operational Perspective: Basic Issues in Gauging Intent 1 From Shoe Leather to Satellites: Shifting the Conceptual Lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Kathleen L. Kiernan and Daniel J. Mabrey 2 Betting Responsibly: An Effects-Based Thinker’s Framework for Characterizing Intent . ....

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...ey watched through the window as a large black car crunched over the gravel and parked directly in front of the house. Two guards in glistening black leather sprang from the rear doors and crouched each side of the car, assault rifles at the ready, heads and eyes flicking from side to side, noses thrust forward as if to smell danger. When satisfied it was safe, the driver ...

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..., surprising both my mother and the woman whose hair she was cutting. Before I’d even entered the world, I owed my mother the price of her customer’s leather loafers. Thirty years ago, a teacher told my mother to keep an eye on me. I was “frighteningly astute" and “abnormally self-aware” for my age. In other words, I was going places. Twenty-eight years ago, I paid m...

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..., Scotland - 1465 The guard stared down at the loch, watching the thick leather bound journal slip under the rippling black water. Years had pas...

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..., Scotland - 1465 The guard stared down at the loch, watching the thick leather bound journal slip under the rippling black water. Years had pas...

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...ng hair was tied back in a ponytail. He normally wore some type of black leather pants, biker boots, fngerless leather gloves, and a 2 Mike Saxton... ...boots, fngerless leather gloves, and a 2 Mike Saxton black, short sleeve leather jacket which was always open to dis- play the saying on his shirt, ... ...t the eyes of her teammates either. She was wearing form fting motorcycle leathers and boots. She had a pistol holstered on her right hip and a nigh... ...to the door with Talbot following. While in the hallway, Lexi removed her leather jacket to reveal the black tank top that she was wearing underneat... ...ed his face with his fngertips that were protrud- ing out of the fngerless leather gloves. “You could say that. Ready when you are.” He walked back t...

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...ce. Then in his only room where the bare mattress Was lain along with his leather jacket And the dirty underwear cuddled around a clean toilet-- Wher... ...eight of The dragline's triple-tank wheels, You see him-- The heels on his leather boots Locked in the train-track grooves of dirt. As he hands the ...

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...tall figure appeared beside the angry horse. He wore evening dress, black leather gloves -- and a white porcelain mask over one side of his face. ... ...ots. Instead of the white porcelain mask I had twice seen, he wore a black leather domino. He carried a black shadbelly coat and a hat; a cravat w... ... did you ever tell him that, Claire?” Erik shifted to sit next to me on the leather seat of the carriage. I nodded. “But he didn’t believe me. Oth... ...his eyes from me as he continued disrobing in silence, finally removing the leather domino mask. He slid into bed next to me, still not speaking, and... ... delight, I felt so filled with love. I sat next to Erik on the carriage’s leather seat, nestled in the crook of his arm, and sighed with contentme... ...eks and macassar pomade to his hair completed the process. Erik donned his leather mask after brushing the last bits of hair from his sleeves. “You... ... throat and hair. Erik was his usual elegant self in evening attire and kid leather mask. I never told Alice why Erik wore the mask. She had once ma...

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...brown sheepish look. "C'mon." Therese stood, slid her fingers into Marsh's leather collar and led him out of the bedroom. He followed her down the lon... ...t aside the papers she had been perusing, leaned back in her big executive leather chair and rested her clasped hands on her flat belly as she met Kan... ...o avoid looking at the pleasant sway of her shapely hips beneath the short leather jacket she wore. In the name of Allah, he was on his way to Jahanna... ...e leading Candy to the front door. Kane followed suit, brought Therese her leather and helped her into it as Marilyn gave her grandkids, kids and daug... ... dinner, huh?" Kane cleared his throat with much difficulty as he hung her leather jacket on a hanger in the hall closet beside his own. "It was a mos... ...ge of courage when he'd fought off two muggers who'd wanted his Eight Ball leather jacket. For his trouble he'd been stabbed and rushed to the hospita... ...mes change." "Indeed." Sahir ambled around her desk, slammed back into the leather chair and glowered at him over her pyramided fingers. "Out with it.... ... me what that circumstance is?" Kane crossed the room, sat in the burgundy leather chair catty-corner to her desk and leaned in. "I am no longer willi...

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...imate stare, directed at the window, is deflected by transparence. Slumped on the imitation leather seat, he and his trousers bump from one side to ... ...knowledges my cornered and abashed existence, like a besuited mummy with gleaming imitation leather shoes. She does my laundry and my ironing, too. ... ...xit lavatories engrossed in mourning, dejected, nostalgia- inundated. I heave myself onto a leathery love seat and crumble, am embryo ensconced. I m... ...t includes his dog?" The girls recoil, torrentially blaspheming, and fling their imitation leather purses at the now much-bolted door. Their voices... ... as evil and corrupt. Anything but this months-long absence, I and my book, sprawled on the leather couch, turning a barbered nape and taciturn back... ...oblem was less the element of surprise than the all-pervading hurt. I sat on our crumbling leather loveseat, a puppet without its master, the strin... ...med the piercing halogen light, placed a Brahms in the DVD player, sprawled on our tattered leather armchair, letting its coolness penetrate me. Eye...

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... Charnwood Hall before their departure for India. Sir Cameron was a tall, gaunt-faced man with a leathery tanned skin from his years under the Indi... ...heads; the beggars and the man with the dancing bear; the water seller with his silver cups and a leather water bag; the farmer wearing an outsize t... ...ith practised agility, her long legs showing to perfection in her tight riding hose and knee-high leather boots. John’s astonished admiration was on... ...oeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. This was the way she liked to dress... ...ndians and the English. But it was not to any of these that the gleaming carriage, with dark red leather upholstery and the Company crest emblazoned... ...red, velvet shell jacket which fitted Gavin’s broad shoulders perfectly. Even the pink hose, flat leather pumps and red cape were an exact replica o... ... to his beautiful dancing girl, whose tomb is sited in your garden.’ Helen took the little, red, leather-bound book and opened it to see Muna’s rou... ....’ ‘How intriguing,’ quipped her devastatingly, handsome husband, as he led her to a comfortable leather sofa. Helen sat nervously on the edge of t...

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... desk.” Stone walked over and sat in his usual comfortable chair and slid a small black leather bag under the desk, but well within arms reach. Ann... ...ticians…” Suddenly, his eyes glazed over and his mind went to black. He reached into the leather bag he had set down next to him and retrieved a pea... ...ave a few minutes. I’m on deadline,” Greene said and ushered them over to a grape colored leather couch. “So, what can I do for you? I thought this ... ...wheeled her cart away. “Stop tape,” Brand shouted. “I didn’t see what Stone did with the leather bag that carried the gun.” “I didn’t punch up th... ...the glass of water.” Brand started pacing around as he spoke. “Have forensics go over the leather bag for any traces of a narcotic. Whose gun was it... ... he said and smiled reassuringly. “No hurry,” she said, and plopped down on a curved tan leather sofa. “My career’s in the shitter, and I’m back do... ... scotch would be nice, if you have it?” The General poured the drinks, and sat down on a leather sofa after handing Garza a cigar and a quarter fil...

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.... Talk about inauspicious. ****** That evening, safely ensconced in a faded leather armchair, I started taking stock of the cataract of pape... ...a uniform of his own design. In the corner, a swastika flag clings to its pole. A leather armchair. Padded walls. The smell of … “Cognac?” No... ...was Oranienburg and it looked just fine to me.” He moves uneasily in the creaking leathered backseat: “The really important question is this: do...

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...l fittings, the floor is covered with a splendid Turkish carpet, a sofa, leather armchair, and filing cabinets. At a desk near the windows SULLA i...

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...cating again or I will stop talking to both of you.” Olivia collapsed on his leather couch and pressed the back of her hand to her cheek. “Was tha... ... waited for her to go in before him. Julia chose a seat in one of the large leather chairs across from his desk, draping her overcoat over the arm a... ...r briefcase against the side. The room looked like a man’s study, all dark leather and mahogany. Wall to ceiling shelves filled with old, dusty law...

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...g black hair was in tight braids, and they wore long, flowing, white robes and dark brown leather sandals. Their skin had a beautiful golden sheen to... ...rom the front of it.” He took a seat and jotted them down as best he could into the small leather-bound notebook he always carried with him. “All r... ...n, no matter the circumstances and he seemed to know just how to touch her. She undid the leather strap that held his hair back and let it fall in wa... ... me.” “Professor, please take a seat.” Professor Dustimaine sat down in one of the plump leather chairs seated in front of Khadesh’s antique cherry... ...e rise, took out a handkerchief and wiped his brow. Khadesh leaned back in his high-back leather chair. “Tell me something. Did you ever take the t...

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...twisted in Kazem's fingers and his face was in his own blood as the thick leather hand swatted him a few lateral slaps. Then Kazem's compunction agai... ... bludgeoned with the sledgehammer of his brother's fist or beaten with the leather skin of his slaps. Kazem wanted to ask if Kumpee had said anything...