Another group brought model houses they had designed to focus on energy efficiency and sustainability.

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Fascinated by architecture, he would build model structures and houses.

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Other firms have been formed along the lines of the American venture-capital model, which private-equity houses such as J.

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He believes the houses will serve as a model for the inevitable future development of nearby acreage.

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The 180-member National Sod House Society, located in Holdrege, Nebraska, sponsors field trips to sod houses, as well as model-building and essay-writing by local youngsters.

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The result is a gripping portrait of Jacksonian America in all its wild variety, from its model farms to its grungy boarding-houses, from its Fourth of July parades to its filthy streets full of copulating pigs.

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Young, creative and successful, jewelry designer JESSICA McCORMACK has all her creations made by hand and looks to the great jewelry houses of the past for a model upon which to build her future business.

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