| Property sector stocks gained as investors bought scrip at a bargain ahead of Hong Kong's first land auction in nearly two years. |
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| In return the prisoners each earned seventy-five cents in camp scrip to spend at the camp stores. |
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| Employers either paid them in scrip redeemable only at plantation stores or simply kept a record of their purchases and labor. |
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| Graduate fellowships partly paid in scrip that could be used to buy university-press books. |
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| A scrip dividend brought the total shareholding held by the Group's directors to 28.3 per cent of the company. |
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| Also there is a question regarding the previously proposed scrip dividend which the bank now says will be suspended for legal reasons. |
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| Finally he sniffed and folded the remains of his meal into a square of cloth before stuffing it back into the leather scrip at his waist. |
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| He then snatched the fallen warrior's arms and robes under which he had concealed a scrip full of gold fastened to his loins. |
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| What about the gifts in cash and kind reporters on the business pages are liable to receive for lauding a particular scrip or company? |
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| Buying prescription drugs without a scrip is a serious legal offense, as Rush Limbaugh could tell you. |
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| I have one, which already got scrip fund as well but I don't talk so much about it. |
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| The survey registered only active transactions, excluding instances when the insider sold or acquired stock by participating in stock option and scrip dividend schemes. |
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| During the New Zealand Land Wars of the 1860s land scrip was issued to soldiers in recognition of their service and to assist their rehabilitation. |
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| In Argentina, the rise of scrip helped undermine the public's confidence in cash in general. |
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| There is well documented archival evidence that establishes how British and Canadian wealth was generated through the scrip system. |
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| Once the merger was announced, the scrip registered a slight increase and was trading at 277.80, up by Rs 15, but overall banking scrips were still trading at a low. |
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| The scrip was quickly purchased by speculators, lawyers and chartered banks. |
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| The government's scrip system was devised as a ways of extinguishing Metis land rights. |
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| Métis in other parts of the country escaped the scrip debacle and now claim a land base in the general context of Aboriginal rights. |
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| For a high-growth company, it said, a scrip dividend is more suitable. |
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| It must also be pointed out that a number of First Nations opted for scrip but had to forgo their treaty rights. |
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| That was only just in time: the big banks, worried about their growing exposure to the scrip, had stopped buying it. Greek scrip would face bigger problems. |
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| Only when the half-breed commissioners exceeded their instructions and altered the form of scrip, enabling the Métis to dispose of their scrip more easily, was there any serious opposition. |
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| What is more, Argentines spent scrip of any sort as soon as they could, and hoarded pesos. Centuries of experience suggest that such a response is typical. |
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| It would be ironic if Greece issued scrip to get around a revenue shortfall, only to find that scrip exacerbated the problem. The second problem is bigger. |
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| Scrip fraud and scrip inconsistencies had increased tremendously. |
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| There were two types of scrip: land scrip and money scrip. |
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| Methadone treatment is not getting a scrip and going to get methadone. |
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| Municipalities set up programs where the unemployed received scrip in return for work on municipal projects, with the aim of providing the recipients with a degree of pride and self-respect. |
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| As a result, in 1898, Manitoba changed the Criminal Code to make it illegal to bring scrip cases before the courts, basically eliminating any chance for Metis to correct the injustices that were occurring. |
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| It is desirable that the provision which we make for this scrip being given to the half-breeds should be as great a benefit to the half-breeds as possible. |
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| Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around. |
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| German military forces used the scrip for payment of goods and services. |
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| Scrip was given to individuals, entitling them to settle with their families on discrete parcels of land. |
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| Clad in a rough garment, barefoot, and, after the Evangelical precept, without staff or scrip, he began to preach repentance. |
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