As a kid he built model aircraft, and as an adult he flies real ones, both fixed-wing and helicopters.
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Some residents were allowed to purchase land on a state reserve and a model house was built as part of a program to teach the residents to help themselves.
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As a business model, there is a lot of inefficiency built into the supply chain and replenishment process for these street vendors, since they reside a few notches down in the distribution system from the regular brick and mortar merchants with whom they compete.
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The miniature building began as a detailed 3-D software rendering before the physical model was built to iron out all the intricacies of connecting the units in the full-scale building.
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Model S, the first premium sedan to be built from the ground up as an electric vehicle, began deliveries in June 2012.
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While Second Life was struggling to find a business model for success, companies such as Shanda, which were influenced by South Korean game publishers, built thriving virtual goods markets.
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