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Eden

1
Sir (Robert) Anthony, Earl of Avon. 1897--1977, British Conservative statesman; foreign secretary (1935--38; 1940--45; 1951--55) and prime minister (1955--57). He resigned after the controversy caused by the occupation of the Suez Canal zone by British and French forces (1956)

Eden

2
Old Testament the garden in which Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation
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Eden

earthly garden of luxury; abode of Adam and Eve. [O.T.: Genesis 2:8]
Allusions—Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Eden

A concurrent, object-oriented, distributed operating system and language, based on remote procedure call. It has both synchronous and asynchronous message passing.

["The Eden System: A Technical Review", G. Almes et al, IEEE Trans Soft Eng SE-11(1):43-59 (Jan 1985)].
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Eden

 

a river in Great Britain. Length, 153 km. It originates in the Pennines, flowing between them and the Cumbrians in a broad valley and falling into the Solway Firth of the Irish Sea. The Eden has an abundance of water in winter. It is navigable to the city of Carlisle.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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NAB has also acquired the details of the properties of the owners of Eden Housing Society which revealed that that the owners had at least 111 commercial plots in Eden housing projects in Lahore alone.
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In June, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had written a letter to the NAB seeking an investigation involving the former chief justice and his family for allegedly defrauding people of billions of rupees in Eden Housing Society, Lahore.
Merit will be pursued in the matter as criminal proceedings against the Eden administration has been initiated.
NAB Lahore: has been direly working to form a Committee comprising Officials from Lahore: Development Authority (LDA), Eden Administration (Present) representative, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) officials, Eden affectees representative and NAB Lahore: 's Investigation Officials.
the representatives of incumbent Eden administration, Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) officials, representatives of Eden affectees and NAB Lahore's Investigation officials.
"To stay competitive the spirits industry in Scotland needs to embrace new ideas and experimentation while respecting its heritage and traditions, particularly with whisky," said Eden Mill co-founder Paul Miller.
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