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PERP

On drawings, abbr. for “perpendicular.”
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Critique: An inherently engaging, entertaining, and thought-provoking read from beginning to end, Jim Ray Daniels "The Perp Walk" is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal reading lists, as well as both community and academic library Contemporary Literary Fiction collections.
The Perp Walk
It all happened so quickly, We then went back on our travels, this time around the west area of town after spotting a 'perp' we follow him around some of the streets I grew up in.
On the streets of Nuneaton in unmarked police car you may not be even aware of
However, as a p53 transcriptional target, the role of PERP in regulating IL-17 and involving in the pathogenesis of RA is still unclear.
Decreased PERP expression on peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patient with rheumatoid arthritis negatively correlates with disease activity
In 1902 the Government parcelled up Napoleonic war debts in perpetual bonds, or perps.
Napoleon to blame; 'Scissorhands' Cam still in hock to France
PERP selected and evaluated studies based on the following criteria: studies reporting empirical data, studies using control groups, studies using statistical controls, and studies that test statistical significance.
Career and technical education in United States prisons: what have we learned?
The value of the feature was brought home in the final drill in which you were seatbelted in a patrol car with your shotgun locked in the trunk and a perp was shooting at you from the 100-yard line.
Fighting shotguns: Mossberg's battle proven tacticals coming your way
If your laptop is stolen, that software can (depending on the app) transmit its IP address to the authorities (who can use that network ID to find the laptop's physical location), locate it via Wi-Fi triangulation, or even take a picture of the perp using the laptop's built-in camera.
Securing Mac
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, known more or less affectionately as SOX, was more than a response to the parade of nice suits doing the perp walk night after night on the news.
Internal audit reports and Sarbanes-Oxley; a guide to process-driven reporting
No, the cuffs were meant to humiliate the 'perp' and to show the world that the rich are treated no different from any other accused crook.
Quotable
It looks real enough that if I saw it coming at me in a dark alley or parking lot in the hands of someone looking to do mischief, you can bet that I would launch a barrage of .45 ACPs at the perp.
Odd Broomhandle
So deep that the best news the Republicans can look back on this fall was that their House majority Leader avoided a nationally televised perp walk by surrendering to Houston authorities on his own.
As sexy as Greenspan naked

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