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    pi


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    pies


    1. You see, Pi approximates to 3


    2. Pi to be especially true, even though I hadn’t missed a meal in about two years


    3. I did notice that I got the largest slice of pie for dessert, and this fact was not wasted on Hal, as I saw him doing the mental math, conceding me the larger arc of pie; or was it pi?


    4. I’m sure all of this stuff is somewhere in cyber space, but it sure looked like they hired a PI to check me out


    5. While using a two-handed grip, I executed a series of spin moves, deep knee bends and rolls that I had practiced a few dozen times during my first year as a PI


    6. I’d rather be the pasty PI than the pansy PI in the eyes of SDPD


    7. ” In reality, he really feared that I would become a Plaintiffs’ PI attorney, return to Tallahassee, and create a huge conflict of interest for him since he was still working as an insurance claims adjuster (he retired at 65 in 1974)


    8. Of Phi and Pi


    9. Then there is Pi


    10. Into Phi and Pi

    11. Of both Pi


    12. Of Pi numbers


    13. With Pi being the fabled


    14. Where the rounding Pi curving lines


    15. In its Pi numbers form


    16. C for classical) Pi math


    17. Of the math formula Pi


    18. And Pi is the famous


    19. Several of the Mu Theta Pi brothers were among the mugshots


    20. The PI consultants worked closely with the IT Governance Board - making bi-weekly progress reports, and asking advice as needed

    21. The proposal by PI suggested initial development of process maps (using PI's Language of Work Model) for the various (As Is) existing IT functions throughout the organization


    22. A major element of the reinvestigation was the PI and it was often the best, single source for information regarding the personal history of an applicant or incumbent


    23. He keeps a tab of the Santa Clauses and Jesuses… or is it ‘Jesi?’ No matter, he will show the ratio is fast approaching e to the power of pi with every year… and when it passes that number the demons will overrun the earth! Numbers don’t lie!


    24. Clo se En coun ters of Em pi re


    25. PI ships are designed for battles in space and not for working inside an atmosphere


    26. "Anyways, my PI contacted me and told me that Santiago was in New York and was keeping


    27. "Okay, here goes," My PI John said


    28. PI ships are immune to Disruptor missiles and the remainder of the ships in the mass of swirling warships were designed to absorb significant amounts of laser damage


    29. “I had heard Saturn Industries was shutting down the last production line of the PI in favor of in-system interceptors,” Wren said


    30. As a teen, Kim had built models of PI ships

    31. “Kim’s family sent her a PI ship for a wedding present


    32. updates to the PI ships’ software


    33. “Since Greg first set foot in a PI ship, no member of the extended Solomon family has ever been killed in battle,” Matilda said


    34. At the rendezvous point, the PI ships were dismounted from the tender and the Glass-ruptors attached


    35. Using the PI ships and small picket ships as glorified tow trucks, forty of the laser armed containers were flung into position around the small moons that held the smallest of the outlying Swordsman defensive bases


    36. Wren’s sixteen PI ships hyper jumped to planned coordinates ringing the planet


    37. Since virtually no one else used short hyper jumps with ships other than PI ships and there were not a lot of PI ships still in service and no one else used them in a fleet, there was only one force that could be attacking this planet


    38. Having determined the locations of the weapons satellites from the first pass by the glass recon drones, after verifying that the communications satellites were dead, the PI ships attacked the weapons satellites with Disruptor missiles


    39. The PI ships were now well inside the perimeter guarded by the system’s interceptors and


    40. The convoy escorts jumped to another close-in interceptor base, but where the first base had been thrown off by their drive to engage the PI ships, this second base was further away and had launched its ships by the time the escorts arrived, but the ships were still close to the base

    41. Up to this point the PI ships had been up against small nimble lightly armed ships with limited armor


    42. As difficult as it might be, he needed to find used PI ships to fill out his squadron


    43. where you determined that two people were the optimum crew for a PI ship


    44. same math Saul had used when he backed two fully loaded PI ships into the atmosphere, they balanced on their thrusters holding stationary positions over the valley that allowed them to extend their laser pods


    45. The heat shields on the bottom of the PI ships were designed to take the impact of a laser or small missile without damage


    46. ” The pirates, who had never seen a PI ship in the hands of properly trained pilots let alone sentient PI ships in the hands of properly trained pilots with equally well trained fire control officers turned to attack Hawk Squadron


    47. They sent the tender with the two most heavily damaged PI ships and such personnel as wanted to go to the nearest Stellar depot with as much frozen food as they could carry


    48. They could barely make out the remains of the corrals where they had kept their horses, but the deep ruts left by the PI ships, Buddy and Daisy, could still plainly be seen where they had rolled in from the lake


    49. When Elizabeth left port she carried eight PI ships and three hundred people, half of whom were medical staff


    50. After considerable discussion, aware of who might still be alive on the surface of the planet, Rachel agreed with Suwanee’s suggestion that Suwannee and Dustin should go first with one of the med ships under cover of the PI ships and the armed drones














































    1. Pied Piper of Hamlin, n


    2. I followed him as if in a trance, like a child being led by the Pied Piper, running, sprinting behind him unable to close the gap between us no matter how hard I tried


    3. The philosophers of collective repression, comfortable and tenured, puffing on their pied pipes of illusion, may never intend to go out and do anything themselves to effect their barbaric theories


    4. The mother gives me a weird look like perhaps she’s jealous or she thinks I’m the pied piper


    5.  Hamelin, a town of Prussia where tradition says took place the incidentof the Pied Piper in the year 1284


    6. Harold and I followed like she was the pied piper and we


    7. pied chair before, and the chair that


    8. Angular planets are puppet masters, or Pied Pipers, who have everyone dancing to their tune


    9. pied so completely and capped off the sheer ruggedness and beauty


    10. pied by the white man, they segregate their own population

    11. The moment she stepped out to address rallies, she became the Pied Piper of Amethi


    12. pied to pay attention; true to his gender, he was naively hoping


    13. They went to Les Halles in the small hours of the morning and had onion soup at Pied de Cochon


    14. ' Rafferty headed purposefully for the lodge, feeling like the Pied Piper of Hamelin as Llewellyn, Smythe and most of the still-depleted hospital staff, fell in behind


    15. Dryva had told me that he was called the Pied Piper


    16. „How come they call you the Pied Piper?' I asked, remembering his nickname


    17. would be a great pied a terre” she suggested, “you're right, let's


    18. Tiens, quel petit pied! Staunch friend, a brother soul: Wilde's love that dare not speak its name


    19. The cycle of birth and death • cosmological analogy • business competitors and value investors eventually cause the death of the crowd • once the crowd disintegrates, a new crowd often starts to form in response to the extended movement of prices • crowd formation causes (and in turn is caused by) excessive price volatility • bearish crowds are different from bullish ones • the 1994-2000 stock market bubble • stock market valuation and Tobin’s q ratio • it’s different this time • the new information economy • shattered dreams • the bear crowd of 2000-2002 • the quest for certainty • the conflict between science and certainty • every opinion has its rationale • instinctual belief • the need for affirmation • pied pipers lead the crowd • mental unity of crowds • intolerance of contrary views • examples from the 1994-2000 bubble • Julian Robertson, Stanley Druckenmiller, and Gail Dudack • Allan Sloan and America Online (AOL) • social and financial pressure on unbelievers • price volatility and homogeneous thinking in crowds • price volatility is one sign that a crowd is mature


    20. THE PIED PIPERS OF INVESTMENT CROWDS

    21. I liken the rationalizations that emerge in these situations to the Pied Piper of Hamelin


    22. During the big move in crude oil prices from $40 in 2004 to $140 in 2008, the pied piper of peak oil played a very seductive tune


    23. Here were three pied pipers that enabled the bullish crude oil crowd to grow to enormous size by mid-2008


    24. The new economy bubble of 1994-2000 had its own pied pipers


    25. One interesting aspect of the bubble was that many of the pied pipers were actual people


    26. The bear crowd of 2001-2002 had its own pied pipers, but they were not as plainly visible as the ones that had enabled the preceding bubble


    27. The crowd searches for scapegoats, and those it finds become inverted pied pipers, repelling listeners with the dissonant music of their pipes


    28. Investors’ human aversion to ambiguity and uncertainty, coupled with their limited capacity for scientific thinking, leaves them vulnerable to pied piper explanations for the run-up or the drop in prices


    29. This is what makes them seductive tunes for the pied piper’s pipe


    30. The pied pipers of the financial world are the early advocates of these investment themes

    31. Heron has described how a pied peacock was eminently attractive to all his hen birds


    32. If green woodpeckers alone had existed, and we did not know that there were many black and pied kinds, I dare say that we should have thought that the green colour was a beautiful adaptation to conceal this tree-frequenting bird from its enemies; and consequently that it was a character of importance, and had been acquired through natural selection; as it is, the colour is probably in chief part due to sexual selection


    33. 11 17 de pied en cap (Lat caput) 'from head to foot', of Engl


    34. --lui tenant pied: 'keeping up with it


    1. He of course did not want an actual answer to the question, because the answer was so immediately obvious; a whole bunch of wild imps were currently creating mischief all over Trouble Valley, stealing pies, breaking vases, and pulling Lucy’s hair


    2. Shortly after they were joined by Matt, who looked like he had been pelted with about fifty cream pies


    3. “Well, actually, the imps were just breaking vases and stealing pies


    4. “Stop eating the pies!


    5. His long, splinter-like limbs never appeared to develop any meat on them, despite the dizzying number of pies and pastries that he consumed


    6. ” At that, the guests all clapped, knowing they’d each eaten enough sweets, cakes, and pies to stun a charging bull, yet being Halflings, wondered if there was room for a few more nibbles


    7. Memories like the time that we picked baskets full so that Grandma could try her hand at baking pies; or, how I would always end up there, one way or another, during those summer evenings, tucking my BB gun under my arm and nibbling on the fresh berries until I had my fill


    8. the place,' as she phrased it, and cakes, mince pies, and puddings were


    9. Rodger and Kiki joined Minister Lyle, Vera and me in the small restaurant at the station, their steak and kidney pies were scrumptious but perhaps not at five in the morning


    10. in the window read, HOMADE PIES

    11. On the menu were possum and venison pies


    12. LP and Ingrid didn't stay long after finishing their pies


    13. LP didn't want to say that they were destined for the next batch of possum pies


    14. ~s de berberechos small pies / turnovers filled with cockles (a bivalve mollusk)


    15. And I hope there'll be a celestial substitute for pies and doughnuts--something that has to be MADE


    16. Stir the mixture well, put it into clean jars, and tie down with parchment covers until needed for mince pies


    17. "How can I really be sure that you won't steal all my pumpkin and chocolate pies and eat them yourself?" she asked


    18. “I stopped by Ann’s house — you know my friend who sells those mouth-watering pies to café’s?”


    19. Again he wondered if it was scrambled but couldn't come up with anything better than SAY DIE PIES


    20. Had it been luck or had the magician had a hand in this as well? It appeared to Corvus that this Tamar fellow seemed to have his finger in too many pies for his liking

    21. Desserts can include pies, cakes, doughnuts, cookies, pastries, brownies, etc


    22. The aroma of strawberry and apple pies drifted from the chimney


    23. The aroma of baked chicken, ham, turkey, apple pies, buttered corn and breaded pork chops filled the house


    24. „We"re used to bread, cheese, pies and chips - so I hope it"s not what we"re used to


    25. She had a sudden thought of her mother, wondering what Mom was doing at that moment: baking pies, reading a book by the wood burning stove? Was she thinking of June as June so often thought of her? Waiting for the words to come out of Angela’s mouth, June wanted nothing more than to once again share g silence with her mother


    26. The snow had started to fall again, but heavier this time, they hoped that the weather would clear up a little as they were expecting to have many visitors that day and the many pies, sandwiches and desserts would be devoured by all


    27. This day had produced two pies and several hard thought-provoking discussions which felt like they had taken years off her already tumultuous life


    28. loaves or bread or pies are baking!


    29. Pies were his favorite and my mother had baking pie crusts with just the right amount of shortening, honed to a fine art


    30. Mother's most memorable pies were strawberry, coconut, chocolate, caramel, and Daddy's favorite, pecan

    31. She made great pies and because I loved lemon meringue pie, that’s what I got for my birthday instead of cake


    32. INVESTMENT OF THE HEART takes place in the Hill Country of Texas where barbecue is a meal staple and pies are a basic accompaniment


    33. The days would feature plenty of barbeque, steaks, chickens, ribs, sausage, cakes, pies and homemade ice cream


    34. filling, especially the coleslaw and the blueberry pies


    35. box, and homemade pies on racks above and behind the cashier,


    36. Also, please give us two pies,” I said


    37. announced that his pies and tarts were oven fresh


    38. pies are, or perhaps the way she keeps her house organized


    39. and these two cutie pies are Corey Jameson, and Jody Wilson


    40. With the pies it

    41. Developing the Income, Revenue, and Expenditure Pies


    42. Why not copyright recipes? Isn’t society beholden to the first person to bake a pumpkin pie, or any pie for that matter? Oh, the world of the intellectual property holder would be pretty bland if the inventor of pie had exclusive rights to development and distribution of pies


    43. Working mathematical equations is like baking pies


    44. It does no good to learn pie recipes years before baking pies


    45. Truthfully, Fred would rather have had a morning shift as a pizza delivery boy, when the orders were few and far between, and only the occasional lonely housewife would have him come by with one of Petey’s Perfect Pizza Pies to get her through the day


    46. Rather than cynically continuing to use those basics of our existence as a dramatic device, the author will simply let the reader in on the fact that Schnottblower easily survives the run in with the Petey’s Perfect Pizza Pies van


    47. Only afterwards, after the trolls were sated from a full meal of Petey’s Perfect Pizza Pies and snoozing with loud grumbly snores and snorts, after everyone had pretty much gone home, and after Fred had spent a sore weekend recovering from his long night of superhero endeavors, did he realize that he had delivered his last pizza


    48. ” I turn the oven off and sit the pies on the


    49. and baking pies in the kitchen, grandpa had gone to


    50. I explained that Gladys had her fingers in all sorts of pies, so I had no idea whether the deposit was expected or not, and couldn’t ask her because of her mental state












































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    Synonyms for "pi"

    pi protease inhibitor principal investigator operative private detective private eye private investigator shamus sherlock

    "pi" definitions

    the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846...


    someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information


    the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project


    the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet


    an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs