This is especially important because the assembly is the power base of the LDP's coalition partner, New Komeito, which gives the party its majority.

ECONOMIST: The ruling LDP plays a sloppy endgame

Caterpillar, for example, one of the likely beneficiaries of expanded exports, recently announced plans to open a new assembly plant not in its Midwestern base but in Victoria, outside Houston.

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From the art center he helped to create in South-Central Los Angeles, at the base of Simon Rodia's famous Watts Towers landmark art assembly, Noah Purifoy saw his neighborhood go up in flames.

NPR: Noah Purifoy: Art as Elegant Wreckage

On December 27th, he whipped the local assembly into line and delivered a majority vote to accept the base.

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The forward island earlier left Portsmouth Naval Base for its sea voyage to Rosyth, where the ship's final assembly will take place.

BBC: HMS Queen Elizabeth final section leaves Portsmouth

In a statement to the assembly, Environment Minister John Griffiths AM explained that a further review of the scientific evidence base regarding the eradication of bovine TB in Wales will be conducted.

BBC: Statement on bovine TB

Hitachi CM, with flat-screen TV to make the results developed by Hitachi Consumer Electronics, for final assembly process to ensure that the consignment to the outside, we will build a stable business base for flat-panel TV business.

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