" Of the 700 young people at Majima's school in Otsu, a new "bed town" for people working in Kyoto and Osaka, 50 are classified as "problem students.
This includes revamping the market, attracting a new department store to the town and building a new 34-bed hotel.
Ms Leite tells of a couple with a small apartment who made up a bed for their new maid in the laundry area next to the dog's.
So she purchased a new queen-sized bed and box spring and sent the tab to Uncle Sam.
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In addition, Masdar City will be a test bed for new technologies.
Mail Goggles is one of two dozen features to spring from Gmail Labs, a test bed for new applications that launched in June.
Lucite furniture designer Charles Hollis Jones designed a new four-post Lucite bed for the couple.
Now whenever we arrive at a new location in Iraq to bed down, the first thing I do is assess the situation.
In the early days of the oil industry, a New England snowstorm or a washed-out Texas rail bed could lead to a spike in prices or even shortages for entire regions of the country.
Adding another highly networked country like South Korea will be good for the service, especially as a potential test bed for new features or usage patterns since Asians use social networks differently from North Americans.
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last week announced that five companies, including America Online, will participate in a test bed for a new domain name registration system designed to end Network Solutions, Inc.
CNN: New domain name system creates confusion over ownership
Nokia is adding to the list of global companies that is using the emerging markets as a test bed to discover new products and services suitable to those markets. ( IBM is another one where a need in India is driving global innovation for it.) It is doing this via its Ovi Life Tools, a set of mobile information and application services.
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The first moments of the hurricane were exciting and provided a test bed for some exciting new electronics.
At Johannesburg's Market Theatre, once a hot-bed of daring new political drama, the biggest audiences are still for re-runs of struggle plays.
Politics, new cars, buying a bed for son number three, or why turnstile jumping might be cheaper than buying a season ticket.
She could neither read nor write, had never been to school, never been to a hospital or a clinic or a dentist, had never had a new dress or owned a pair of shoes, had gone to bed hungry on more nights than she could remember, and, like millions of other black South Africans, she had learned to settle for what was there and to expect nothing more.
He said Byrd took him "under his wings" when he was a struggling musician in New York, even letting him sleep on a sofa-bed in his Bronx apartment for several years.
Work on the new 24-bed community hospital at Bonar Bridge in Sutherland and a new day surgery centre at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness will start next year.
The first robot capable of lifting a patient from a bed to a wheelchair and back, RIBA charted a new course in the development of care-giving robots, yet functional limitations prevented its direct commercialization.
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"The automakers want a new version of the OS every fall so that they have a test bed over the winter and can offer it in their cars for the next model year, " said Keith Weintraub, product manager for Windows CE for Automotive.
In a new study, Patwari showed a network of 20 wireless transceivers placed around a hospital bed could reliably detect breathing and estimate breathing rate to within two-fifths of a breath per minute based on 30 seconds of data.
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New Jersey is not known as a hot bed of bluegrass music, so the group Railroad Earth is sort of an oddity in the Garden State.
Mr. CHRIS SACCA (Google): We think San Francisco can be a great test bed for the development of new applications, services, local advertising, all kinds of really cool community-based services.
The film profiles four people whose lives center on the New Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, a dingy bare-bones gym in the heart of one of New York's most hope-deprived neighborhoods.
It seems safe to assume that George Bush does not curl up in bed at night with a copy of the New York Review of Books.
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The Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) urged ministers to delay the radical change for a year to give the new Curriculum For Excellence more time to bed in.
At the nearby El Mirage Lake dry lake bed, the solar-powered Lightning Motorcycle set a new speed record for production motorcycles.
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