The nine-page complaint, which also names as a defendant G-III Apparel Group Ltd.

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For years, FedEx has been a member of that select group of companies whose names are used as verbs.

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The group, with a name that translates as Feminine Toponymy, began collecting names of notable Italian women that city councils use on their street signs.

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The tortoise spat is one of about 60 cases presented each year to the ICZN, a little-known group that functions as the world's arbiter for animals' scientific names.

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Recognising he had a fairly limited group of players at his disposal, with the exception of a handful of talented names such as Robbie Keane, Damien Duff and Shay Given, Trapattoni executed a well-organised game-plan that would see the Irish progress as the only unbeaten team in the World Cup play-off draw.

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