Consider it a preliminary friends-and-family gift — and a reason to hit your local farmers market, where strawberries and rhubarb are now in season.
After markets closed on Friday Aviva announced that it had reached a preliminary agreement with Friends Life to offer 0.74 of its shares for each share of Friends Life.
We met in his dressing room, where he was completing his preparations, and after a preliminary chat about friends in common (my sister knew his makeup artist) we were filmed walking together right to the point where he stepped out in front of the crowd.
He'd done much of the preliminary organizing, coordinating with friends who were bringing their holiday specialties and filling in the gaps of what I would prepare.
A couple of years ago, Allen casually showed a friend the preliminary sets he'd built for Mother's Peak in the living room of his Chicago home.
I heard praise for the preliminary changes from wives, girl friends, even children, as well as from male friends who in some cases had nudged initiates into the training.
One night in October, when "Dinner With Friends" had a preliminary run in Stamford, Alan Arkin, who lives in Weston, was in the audience.
For example, in his review of his friend Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, Whewell argued, against Herschel, that verification is not possible when a hypothesis has been formed non-inductively (1831, 400 1).
Some, like Laurie Davis of eFlirt, surf clients' online profiles to help them find preliminary online matches, while others, like Sofi Papamarko of Friend of a Friend Matchmaking, work exclusively offline, matching clients with her own acquaintances or other clients.
Mr. Gissin said preliminary findings substantiated claims from Mr. Foqara's friends and family that he had no ties to militant groups.
On November 26, the same day his preliminary hearing ended, Dennis Oland and a group of friends attended a Bob Seger show at Saint John's biggest hockey arena, Harbour Station.
