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Measuring 4.1 by 1.4 m (13 by 5 ft), the sheet is kept in an iron-lined silver casket placed in a marble urn and tucked away in the Museo della Sidone, and is rarely on display to the public (with the recent exception of the Holy Year 2000).
The NYT reports that even at the height of its influence, the Christian Coalition kept thousands of dead persons, duplicate names, and wrong addresses on its lists of supporters.
You got a sense of how Bradley has recalibrated his approach in the first of the two events, a dull, 90-minute Nightline special that kept East Coast political junkies up until after 1 a.m. on Friday night.
Throughout the 1994-1995 strike, the company kept reporting record quarterly earnings, in part because so many union members became scabs, in part because management personnel helped work the lines, and in part because the UAW represents just a fifth of Caterpillar's global workforce.
The Lusitanian leader, Viriathus, kept the Roman forces at bay until he was assassinated in 139 b.c.