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Bolivar

Simon . 1783--1830, South American soldier and liberator. He drove the Spaniards from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru and hoped to set up a republican confederation, but was prevented by separatist movements in Venezuela and Colombia (1829--30). Upper Peru became a separate state and was called Bolivia in his honour

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Bolivar

a department in northern Colombia located on a plain and bounded on the east by the Magdalena River. Area, 26,400 sq km; population, 820,800 (1969). Its administrative center is Cartagena. Much of the land is devoted to livestock grazing, and there are crop-producing areas with tobacco, rice, sugarcane, cotton, and fruit-growing (bananas and other fruits) plantations. Bolivar has stockpiles of valuable timber. Petroleum is extracted and refined, and there are food-processing and textile industries.

Bolivar

a French term designating a wide-brimmed men’s hat that was fashionable in a number of countries in the 1820’s.

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Boliver had worked for Halls Garden Centre on the Chester Road as its head accountant for 36 years.

Accountant stole PS76,000 from garden centre to fund gambling and drink habit; SUSPENDED TWO-YEAR JAIL SENTENCE AFTER 'UNSOPHISTICATED' CON IS UNCOVERED

In a statement, the boss of Halls said Boliver's actions had had an impact on the company's ability to operate successfully, especially during the winter months, and to pay the staff the wages they deserved.

PS76,000 garden centre fraudster is spared jail

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Vikki Boliver is Lecturer in Sociology at Bath Spa University.

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John Roller, chief operating officer at Duck Creek Technologies, a Boliver, Mo., provider of rating and policy administration software, says that nearly all of today's policy administration solutions remain "legacy," or older solutions, where the data is locked up in a mainframe computer.

Getting their feet webbed: for the past 18 months, Lexington has been automating policy administration in the underwriting process, and as many as nine products are distributed over the Web. The most complex transactions, however, are still paper-based

Groomsmen were Stan Bates and Randy Porter of Columbus; Reid Carpenter and Josh Westmoreland of Tupelo; David Doleac of Jackson; Gary Rodgers of Boliver, Tennessee; and Chad Ross of Brownsville, Tennessee.

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A case in point is former dancer and costume specialist Lucio Boliver, now a designer, wardrobe consultant, and the president of Dynamix, a costume-building company based in Las Vegas.

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Applications have been filed to construct oil and gas transportation pipeline facilities from the Catalina #1 well, located in the Boliver Association Contract Area in the Middle Magdalena Basin of Columbia.

1999 PIPELINE CONSTRUCTION OUTLOOK

IF YOU have a money problem write to: Diane Boliver, Sunday Mirror, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AP.

Q&A

Kathleen Norris and Deborah Boliver Boehm have each written books that track their personal experiences as women residing in male monasteries.

The Cloister Walk

Boliver would increase his lead to 5-2 in the second period, allowing Pucino to draw closer at 5-4 midway through the third period, before extending his advantage to 7-4 with 90 seconds to go.