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Gambetta

(ɡæmˈbɛtə; French ɡɑ̃bɛta)
n
(Biography) Léon (leɔ̃). 1838–82, French statesman; prime minister (1881–82). He organized resistance during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71) and was a founder of the Third Republic (1871)
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Gambetta was laying his last lock of hair upon the altar.
Gambetta's back, and raised a rousing "Whoop-ee!" This was answered from out the far distances of the fog, and I immediately shouted:
Gambetta's person, with the happy result of finding nothing in the nature of a wound.
"To get the guarantee for Gambetta, I've sold him," he said, in a tone which said more clearly than words, "I've no time for discussing things, and it would lead to nothing."
"The Municipal Action for Immigrant Integration project is pleased to collaborate with the Cities of Migration project," said Ricardo Gambetta, NLC's program manager for inclusive communities.
In Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate (Princeton), the Oxford sociologist Diego Gambetta uses colorful stories and a minimum of jargon in his quest to analyze how people advertise when their business happens to be illegal.
So Miguel Gambetta, M.D., and his colleagues conducted another study to identify any baseline variables that might predict admission within the 30-day time frame.
Courtney Rosenthal, Michael Barbolla, Rosemarie Gambetta, Kelly Peiper and Gregg Roberts of City Sites Real Estate Group.
Tony Gambetta, who joined the company as a 17-year-old junior salesman in 1981 and worked his way up to associate director, is celebrating 20 years with the company.
Vern Gambetta, President of Gambetta Sports Training Systems in Sarasota, FL, makes a good case against contrived flexibility tests like the "sit-and-reach." He points out that actual athletic performance is the best measure of mobility, strength or any fitness quality; and that there are no universal tests for them.
Gambetta has produced a carefully argued and well written interpretation of he Sicilian Mafia which should be required reading for every student of criminology (and not only criminology).