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"Good-bye, " Ender said to his family. He reached up and took Colonel Graff 's hand and walked out the door with him.

Just how Graff manages to carry an inventory worth many hundreds of millions is one of the great puzzles of the diamond market.

But when Bean and his family got up to greet them, Graff held up a hand to stop them and Carlotta put her finger to her lips.

"You got it, " said Graff. "They were all taken by a group of terrorist nuns, aided by fat old bureaucrats. "

This was the start of a great friendship and my second era of graff .

It was a real battle but it was always about graff.

Mr. Graff became close enough to the royal family that the sultan's brother lent him his Aston Martin during his visits.

The engagement ring Soros gave Bolton, according to a person close to him, is a Graff diamond in a platinum setting on a rose gold band.

It was Colonel Graff and Sister Carlotta at the door.

It is clearly an issue that analysts are worried about, ' said Brian Graff, executive director of the American Society of Pension Actuaries.

Of that, $437 million came from Graff Diamonds, the retail arm, which turned a profit of $64 million after taxes.

It secures high-carat stones through a sales agreement with Gem Diamonds, in which Mr Graff owns a 14 per cent stake.

If you like to make a "statement" you do it by making a burner graff piece - not by crossing someone out with bullshit.

Graff already has three stores in East Asia, and plans to open one in mainland China and one on Taiwan.

The Inverted Siphon Project of the Tang River is a large-scaled river - graff - cross building of South - to - North Water Transfer.

Mr. Graff plans only one new store in United States, in San Francisco, a city that has many visitors from Asia.

His test scores from Battle School were a matter of public record since Graff's trial.

Prof Graff's team studied how the adipose gene worked by switching it on and off in fruit flies and mice.

Graff's thinking was that a retailer could not possibly charge a big-enough mark-up over $3 million to spend more for the stone.

Though Hollywood celebrities are often photographed wearing big gems, "they are not big purchasers, " Mr. Graff, 73, says.

Beneath the headquarters of Graff on Albemarle Street, in the Mayfair section of London, is a warren of workrooms.

The inner workings of Graff, like those of most of the big players, are difficult to penetrate.

Like Harry Winston, who died more than three decades ago, Mr. Graff has made his fortune selling big diamonds.

"We make more sales to newer money than to older money, " Mr. Graff says in explaining China's appeal.

Three economists, Pierre Azoulay, Gustavo Manso, and Joshua Graff Zivin, have rigorously evaluated the Hughes approach.

Yet jewels from Laurence Graff, perhaps the biggest dealer in seriously big stones, are rare this evening.

It has set a goal of 20% for equipment being installed from 2009, says Chuck Graff, Verizon's director of network technology.

For workers at one of London's Graff jewelry shops, today's date is not easily forgotten.

Graff's flotation would add the latest jolt of activity to the diamond market, which is booming amid rising luxury goods demand from China.

The most expensive diamond ever sold at auction was renamed by its new owner, jeweler Laurence Graff.

WHEN the petrodollars stopped gushing, Mr. Graff looked beyond the Middle East.

Graff promised that he would never be set free.

The swing to Asia, and China in particular, has startled even Graff's veteran management.

Professor Graff seldom uses his blackboard during his lectures.

While the world of Graff might seem unaffected by the ups and downs of the workaday economy, it was in fact hurt by the recent slowdown.

Hold on to your jewels, Graff Diamonds.

"I won't take him without letting you speak to him again, " Graff said. "And you really can't stop me. "

Graff was not so amenable to Vision and Ideals as usual.

But Graff was court-martialed -- exonerated, yes, but retired from the military.

It's running across the graff.

The signal came. Graff and Sister Carlotta led the way, still a brisk walk.

Mr. Graff's purchases of giant gems awe the diamond world.

There, 170 people produce the jewelry that Graff sells worldwide.

Starting in the 1970s, Mr. Graff began selling jewels to the sultan of Brunei.

Graff 's voice was sharp and angry. What did I do wrong, thought Ender. Did I laugh out loud?

If Graff was setting him up, there'd be no help unless he helped himself.

Graff, of course, is hardly the only player in China.

"Not good enough, " said Graff.

As we all know, the expansion of graff and increase of urban landscape area are adapted to social development and economic needs.

"If you want the very best, and money is no object, you go to Graff's, " said Levy.

Mr. Graff oversees a network of 32 stores worldwide, and owns 12. 14 percent of Gem Diamonds, a publicly traded mining company.

"I don't know, " said Graff very simply.

Mr Graff, a noted art collector, is a big spender at gemstone auctions.

In -94 I did my "last" train and I was off the whole graff scene between 95-97 for school.

After he purchased the 24. 78 carat diamond for $46. 2 million at Sotheby's in Geneva last month, Mr. Graff named it 'The Graff Pink. '

"I asked you a question, soldier! " bared Graff .

In November 2010 he spent 45. 4m Swiss francs on a 25-carat pink diamond that he named "the Graff Pink. "

College stations play all kinds of music from Jazz to high Graff .

Mr. Graff says he can turn a bigger profit by buying large, rough stones.

"This is a radical change in design, " said Graff, who holds 22 patents. "This is one of the ways we can make this step jump. "

Graff keenly concentrated on the relationship among the literary and its theory;