Avon

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Avon

1. a former county of SW England, created in 1974 from areas of N Somerset and S Gloucestershire: replaced in 1996 by the unitary authorities of Bath and North East Somerset (Somerset), North Somerset (Somerset), South Gloucestershire (Gloucestershire), and Bristol

2. a river in central England, rising in Northamptonshire and flowing southwest through Stratford-on-Avon to the River Severn at Tewkesbury. Length: 154 km (96 miles)

3. a river in SW England, rising in Gloucestershire and flowing south and west through Bristol to the Severn estuary at Avonmouth. Length: 120 km (75 miles)

4. a river in S England, rising in Wiltshire and flowing south to the English Channel. Length: about 96 km (60 miles)

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Avon

(language)

A dataflow language.

["AVON: A Dataflow Language", A. Deb, ICS 87, Second Intl Conf on Supercomputing, v.3, pp.9-19, ISI 1987].

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THE Avon lady was once as much part of the brand as the perfume and make-up she sold door-to-door.

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Funds raised by Team Boobie Patrol and the thousands of other Avon Walk participants are awarded by the Avon Foundation for Women, a 501(c)(3) public charity, to help make sure anyone facing a breast cancer diagnosis gets the care they need regardless of their ability to pay, and to help fund breast cancer research.

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And always to be found wearing Avon makeup and jewellery, the 30-year-old is a true advocate of the brand.

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Avon was established in the USA over 120 years ago by a 28 year-old door-to-door bookseller, David McConnell.

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"Hello Tomorrow shows that Avon is transforming itself and aims to transform women's lives and beauty bags all over the world."

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But the eponymous Avon ladies are not going anywhere, and will play a major part in the future of the company.

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