Reim

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A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, - used for twisting into ropes, etc.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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At last it was done--no easy task, for the numbed hands of the Kaffirs could scarcely loosen the frozen reims. The wagons were outspanned side by side with a space between them, and into this space the mob of thirty-six oxen was driven and there secured by reims tied crosswise from the front and hind wheels of the wagons.

Hardly had the words passed his lips when the wagon shook; there was a sound of breaking reims and trampling hoofs.

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There is the Abbey of JumiÃ©ges, there is the Cathedral of Reims, there is the Sainte-Croix of Orleans.

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ING, seeking to reduce exposure to real estate and improve its balance sheet, agreed on 15 February to sell ING REIM to CBRE in two transactions for combined price of some USD1bn (EUR717.5m), the vendor said in a statement.

ING finalises sale of ING REIM arm

4 October 2011 - ING (AMS:INGA) has wrapped up the sale of the Asian business of its ING Real Estate Investment Management (REIM) division, the Dutch financial group said today.

-ING wraps up sale of ING REIM's Asian operations

ING (NYSE: ING) (EUR: INGA) has said that it has completed the sale of ING REIM's Asian operations to US-based CBRE Group Inc, for an undisclosed sum.

-ING completes sale of ING REIM Asia to CBRE

Reim said he'll probably be at UMass Memorial Medical Center's University Campus another week or so.

Camper recalls moments of terror; Mourning the `kindest person in the world'

Commercial real estate services firm CBRE Group Inc (NYSE:CBG) has completed its acquisition of ING Group NV's real estate investment management (ING REIM) operations in Asia, the company said on Monday.