In many cases, that means replacing a round pipe with a wide concrete box-like structure.
Just ask Matt Hannifin, who has run the jewel box-like Science Toy Magic Shop in Santa Fe, N.
The box-like eight-floor structure had dark brown bricks as facing tiles on the outside walls, a style that became popular in Shanghai in the 1930s.
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He would surprise questioners by mentioning Frank Lloyd Wright, an American traditionalist, and Le Corbusier, a Swiss-born architect famous for his massive box-like blocks of flats.
An absorbing collection of 50 vintage photographs, dating from 1902, all of which Munch took and often developed himself, using one of the first box-like Kodak cameras, attest to perhaps the artist's greatest obsession: himself.
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The price that the buyers have offered for the discount retailer, which competes with other club-membership stores like Costco as well as big-box stores like Wal-Mart to bring in loyal customers with lower passed-through product costs, is fair, say some analysts.
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It competes with companies like Mattel and Hasbro, and revenue at big-box retailers like Wal-Mart and Target can serve as a proxy for its health.
It's a shame that a society that can produce franchises like Jiffy Lube and Krispy Kreme, or big-box retailers like Wal-Mart and Home Depot, continues to have doctors' offices which still use paper-based medical records.
For instance, Johnny Cash's 1964 appearance and the Judds' first appearance on the show, in 1989, will be marketed through infomercials and then distributed through big-box retailers like Wal-Mart Stores and Costco, in addition to Carson's official Web site, www.johnnycarson.com.
Remember to use coupons at big-box stores like Target and Wal-Mart too.
Kalin rejects that path, noting that big-box stores like Best Buy (nyse: BBY - news - people ) liquidate their overstock on eBay.
And then there's even more outside-of-the-box options, like Razer's recently re-introduced Edge (aka "Project Fiona"), which occupies a space all its own.
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Of course, manufacturers can also dump all that tech into a display-side box much like Sony does with it's XEL-1, but hey, he's on a roll.
The provision is expected to provide millions of dollars to big-box stores like Walmart.
Kalin rejects that path, noting that big-box stores like Best Buy liquidate their overstock on eBay.
Even in the early '90s, the academy picked box-office hits like The Silence of the Lambs and Braveheart for its top award.
Which makes life difficult for would-be box-office draws like Jennifer Aniston and Jude Law, who both have new movies opening this weekend.
It was a huge year for animated motion pictures, with box-office hits like "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" and "Up" earning nominations in the best animated feature category.
In movies, Amy Pascal , chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, is trying to repair the studio's sagging reputation, with box-office successes like the Spiderman series and The Da Vinci Code.
"When you have a record box-office year like we did in 2012, every weekend in 2013 is becoming a challenge to best or even equal what we did the year before, " said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian.
Big box stores like Wal-Mart Stores and Best Buy hold considerable sway with vendors.
In one demo, a box decorated in QR-like codes opens to reveal a bouquet of virtual flowers.
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Some supermarkets and big box stores like Wal-Mart and Target are practically giving generic drugs away as a loss to attract customers.
Big-box jewelry brands like Alukkas have less than 8% of the market.
Similarly, it is impossible for even the most loving coach to get people outside the box of their dream-like condition without inducing a certain amount of trauma as an unintended byproduct.
The Peerless drive, for instance, which uses big cartridges that hold up to 20 gigabytes of data, might be useful for in-car digital audio players or as a removable drive for storing video in a TiVo -like TV set-top box.
Wholesale storage providers like Amazon S3, or value-added providers of content storage, like Box.net, have proven they can offer scale and elasticity unmatched by on-premise infrastructure.
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And it even ran a Kinect-like videogame through the set-top box that looked similar (though much less polished).
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