Before long, the earth began to yield seedling armies, whose rank growth overtook the garden.

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One Solidus seedling is Work for Pie, a job-listing Web site for software coders.

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"I wouldn't say one church is more traditional than another, " she said, tending a plant seedling stand last week.

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They compare the problem to horticulture: Scotland is very good at growing tech companies from seedling to pot plant for early sale.

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He recalled importing a seedling of a dwarf pine from Japan.

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Humphries gave Giuliani a seedling from an American elm, "the only thing that stands that was there before the bombing in April 1995, " now called the Survivor Tree.

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Named after postal worker Rudolph Hass, who purchased the seedling in 1926 from a California farmer, the distinctive purplish-black fruit has a thicker skin and smaller body than other varieties.

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Healy stopped Brewster in the hallway one day after class, with the seedling of an idea for selling electricity back to a grid, something he had chewed over with his father.

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But she overlooked one male seedling.

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The seedling of Podemos will grow.

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In that report, which talked about the data mining efforts undertaken by the ODNI, Reynard was described as: "a seedling effort to study the emerging phenomenon of social (particularly terrorist) dynamics in virtual worlds and large-scale online games and their implications for the intelligence community".

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