Wearing a baggy, navy corduroy suit brightened by a turquoise Little Bear tie, Hirsh, 51, is holding court in his cinder-block-walled office in a former munitions factory in Toronto.
He spent billions of dollars on his "missions" well-publicized educational, health-and-welfare programs aimed at the millions who live in cement-block slums on the hillsides surrounding Caracas and other cities.
On April 18, Dr. Christopher Kabrhel had pizza delivered to the emergency department of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco, Texas, which was treating patients from the deadly explosion the day before that damaged homes in a five-block area in nearby West.
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Cox-2 inhibitors, developed with much hype in the mid-1990s, block an enzyme called cyclooxygenase-2, in so doing shutting off a wide-reaching cascade of biochemical signals that take the form of fats called prostaglandins.
Frail and doddery for his 75 years, suffering from Parkinson's and other diseases, holed up in humiliation in a bombed-out office block in Palestine's benighted West Bank for the past three-and-half years, occasionally threatened by Israel's leaders with expulsion and even assassination, he is widely considered, in the end, a flop.
To prepare for the show, exhibit curator Paul Martineau spent several months plowing through 1, 200 boxes of prints in a cold cinder-block room at the Herb Ritts Foundation in Hollywood, looking for shots with the L.A.-bred photographer's signature style: glowing California light, bold shadows, bare skin and film-noir settings.
Industrial production in the 12-member block edged up by 0.1% in December to give a 12-month gain of 2.5%.
Andrew Carnegie, eighty-three, once the mightiest industrialist in all the world, now a wizened and influenza-ravaged man who for nearly two years had been under doctors' care in his block-long, six-level mansion on Gotham's Millionaire's Row, took up the instruments brought to him and began to write as if possessed.
Initially, the projected revenue for Scotland - and hence the cut in block grant - would be calculated by the Treasury with an initial guarantee of financial stability.
The big test will come if (or when) growth rates in the ex-communist block slow to match those in old Europe and pay falls in real terms.
One, notably, who welcomed the Calgary document was Preston Manning, leader of the Reform Party, powerful in the west and the second-largest block in the federal parliament.
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As I walked around the restaurant at Australia's plush hotel in west London to meet the players during breakfast, Darren Lockyer popped out for an early-morning run around the block in his full-length lycras before re-emerging with a newspaper.
Early rising also means a built-in block of exercise time, which pays dividends in the boardroom.
Enacted in mediocre cement-block settings, the fantasy never develops any beauty or even a pulse.
As thousands of bused-in police academy cadets gathered along the route to prepare for the procession, Olivero and his wife, Yelitza Acuna, hid from the sun while waiting in a block-long line to buy flour, coffee, butter and other food staples they said have been hard to come by for about two years.
The compulsory classes, of 35 hours in a one-week block, are based on those used for new recruits in the Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force.
Eventually, the idea emerged to create a facility -- different from a "fund" in that it represents pre-arranged promises to lend rather than an actual block of money in an account -- that could be in place by early next year.
Mitsui's ambition and appetite for risk are reflected in a series of developments in New York, Los Angeles and London, including a 42-story luxury apartment block in midtown Manhattan and the soon-to-be-vacated home of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
The inquest into the deaths of six people in a tower block fire in south-east London has entered its fifth week with another four weeks to go.
The pivotal moment of the match came in first half injury-time when Wexford defender Philip Wallace was controversially adjudged to have committed a foot-block in his own defence.
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Teenage brothers Thomas and Darren Russell were in their second-floor apartment in the 9200 block of South Justine Street in February 2009 when officers announced they had a warrant to search both units of the two-flat.
The GTS's star attraction is its torque-rich 4.8-liter V8, the same dry-sump, alloy-block engine as in the all-wheel-drive Panamera 4S but let off the leash a bit, with a higher redline (7, 100-rpm fuel shut-off), lumpier cam-lift logic, more aggressive transmission software (quicker, harder shifts available from the dual-clutch PDK gearbox), and additional cold-air boxes with active shutters behind lower lateral bumper intakes.
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However, it sold off its 30% stake in the ES-M-661 offshore block located in the Espirito Santo basin to Petrobras.
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In 1992 Joyce Boutique opened its much-hyped flagship store in a brand-new Hong Kong office block.
Critics say that it could leave Scotland short of funds - depending upon how the consequential reduction in block grant is calculated - and who does the sums.
After the war, the communists decided to exploit a huge coalmine underneath it, swelling the population to 70, 000 housed in block after block of hideous high-rise concrete hulks, utterly devoid of a sense of community.
No valid fire risk assessment was in place when a fire broke out in a south-east London tower block claiming six lives in 2009, an inquest has heard.
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