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OPS

abbr. Baseball

on-base (percentage) plus slugging (percentage)

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Ops

(ɒps)

(Classical Myth & Legend) the Roman goddess of abundance and fertility, wife of Saturn. Greek counterpart: Rhea

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Ops

(ɒps)

n.

the Roman goddess of plenty and the wife of Saturn.

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Ops - (Roman mythology) goddess of abundance and fertility; wife of Saturn; counterpart of Greek Rhea and Cybele of ancient Asia Minor

Roman mythology - the mythology of the ancient Romans

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A good old woman, Euryclea, daughter of Ops, the son of Pisenor, went before him with a couple of blazing torches.

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However some tradition they dispers'd Among the Heathen of thir purchase got, And Fabl'd how the Serpent, whom they calld OPHION with EURYNOME, the wide- Encroaching EVE perhaps, had first the rule Of high OLYMPUS, thence by SATURN driv'n And OPS, ere yet DICTAEAN JOVE was born.

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OPS had cited the owner of the pipeline that killed Amanda Smith and her family, the El Paso Energy Pipeline Group, for safety problems with its pipeline in Arizona in 1997, and again in 1999.

Lines of fire: the only thing standing between you and a deadly oil pipeline accident is Washington's most hapless regulatory agency

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