welsher


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someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager

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Haydn, 18 months, inspects his dad Matt Welsher's proposal Sarah-Jayne Murphy and Matt Welsher's proposal to Sarah-Jayne Murphy on Barry Island beach PICTURES: MORGAN EDWARDS
The Barry Island beach proposal by Matt Welsher, 37, to Sarah-Jayne Murphy, 27, from Ynysybwl, Pontypridd
Other colourful characters in the painting include the Whickham Chicken, George the Plunger, the card sharp the Swalwell Cat, Bob the Wrong 'Un, Mac the Welsher, and the sozzled Billy Sup-up.
Welsher, "Conductive Anodic Filaments in Reinforced Polymeric Dielectrics: Formation and Prevention," 17th Annual Reliability Physics Symposium, April 1979.
(118.) See, e.g., Hamilton, supra note 8, at 19-20 (describing bet welsher who fled fight and was chased, ending in an armed standoff defused by undercover officers); Ortiz, supra note 15, at 51-52 (describing losers who subsequently broke into winner's home seeking lost money, shot winner in front of his wife and children, and fled with $500,000 while allowing winner to bleed to death); Julie Straw, Yazoo Co.
Areas for needed research identified by Welsher and McLellan (2004) included alternative organizational models of service integration, strategies to increase implementation of evidence-based treatment, and measurement of the effects of organizational management on quality, access, outcomes, and costs of service delivery.
We have been gifted by having Kateri Clemons as our CLR Publication Project Coordinator; Laura Moulton supervising CLR ad contracts and Linda Saraceno overseeing CLR ad traffic; and the graphic artists working in Production along with Circulation's David Welsher to produce our print publication.
She leaves her 2 daughters: Mary Ellen Welsher and her husband Philip of Auburn, and Nancy D.
Welsher, "Class 0 ESD Trends: Implications for Back and Front End Processes," A2C2 Magazine, May 2005.
Welsher was first used to describe English bookies who, having too many longshot winners to pay out on, fled over the border to Wales.
Despite two recent meta-analyses (Latham & Sue-Chan, 1999; Taylor & Small, 2002) that have investigated the criterion-related validity of the situational interview (SI) and the past-behaviour interview (PBD, there remains debate as to the criterion-related validity of each of these structured interview types in predicting job performance--particularly with respect to the domain of managerial job performance (see Huffcutt, Weekley, Welsher, DeGroot, & Jones, 2001; Pulakos & Schmitt, 1995; Taylor & Small, 2002).
When I win this case, the word will get out that I'm a welsher, that I don't pay my debts, and nobody will want to play cards with me on my regular trips.
(12.) See Baird & Weisberg, supra note 9, at 1223 ("Commentators assume that the mirror-image rule cannot resolve the problem of the welsher satisfactorily.").
Oscar Welsher, vice president of engineering for Atlas, said the Montreal facility is a state-of-the-art distribution center with many features to help serve its 300 customers.