And not just any model builder--Fudd works with Mindstorms, Lego's new robotic invention kit.
In this way, Obama's great strengths--he is a brilliant communicator and image-builder--are also proving to be a source of profound weakness.
The numbers give Oppenheim a sense of pricing--the key to home builder profitability--in the 40 biggest markets for new home construction.
The label, right above the part where it talks about how every swallow tries to be the perfect pilot-provider-builder-trainer-teacher-lover-mate, claims 18 uses.
Under considerable pressure, the police have announced a new investigation into the deaths of Harold McGowan, a 34-year-old builder, and his 20-year-old nephew, Jason.
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He regards doorbell-pushing as a great character-builder: If you can sell door-to-door, he says, you can do anything.
That sums up Christopher Brereton, co-founder of PictureHealing, a Santa Monica-based company with a low-cost do-it-yourself mobile app builder for nonprofits.
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The bathrooms used to have builder-grade cherry cabinetry, laminate counters and cream-colored tile.
Indeed, Republicans whisper that their omnipotent opponents are behind a string of less-than-kind profiles of the erstwhile body-builder.
His father was a well-to-do builder and architect who, when the family moved to Scotland, sent his son to Fettes College, the so-called Eton of Scotland which Tony Blair was later to attend.
"The Olympics are both a reputation- and an expertise-builder, " says Schroer.
There was a growing Center and the critical mass of voters of all parties and stripes told my interviewers that their preference for a President was a problem-solver, consensus-builder, and competent manager.
On Wednesday, a reading of home-builder sentiment rose to a near five-year high, and the Commerce Department said Thursday that home construction last month increased 10% from a year earlier, topping economists' expectations.
Using builder-fronted financing, YY expects to break ground within three months.
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The Commodore -- builder of the old New York Central Railroad -- has many other, non-Burden descendants whose wealth has greatly diminished because they don't have similar arrangements.
Ansil Saunders, an 80-year-old world-renown fisherman, boat builder and local legend.
Toll Brothers, which calls itself a "luxury-home builder, " designs and builds single-family and attached homes in the Northeast, Southwest, South, Midwest and West, around some of the country's wealthiest and most populous cities.
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Wyllie's self-proclaimed status as "the best bogie-builder in Cardonald" as well as his burgeoning musical and dancing talent hinted at an early creativity.
Take Daniel Green, a third-generation builder in Massachusetts, who has built 20 active-adult communities across the state.
John Regan is a medium-size builder in the Washington DC area who has just completed a high-end condominium project in the upscale suburb of McLean, Virginia.
He later worked at General Magic, an early builder of information-gathering agents.
The 700-horesepower V12 is cut like a body builder, with the highest power-to-weight ratio of any car in its class.
Thousands gathered for her launch but no-one looked upon her with greater admiration and pride than the eyes of her builder, the then 65-year-old naval architect William Francis Gibbs.
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It seems a development team at MicroProse has been working on Star Trek: The Next Generation--Birth of the Federation, a new Trek-based empire builder built upon the foundation set by MicroProse's Civ II and Master of Orion II.
Custom-builts approach the power and speed of racers, but, as one-of-a-kinds, they also reflect the distinctiveness and eccentricities of the builder and the owner.
Toll Brothers ( TOL - news - people ), a builder of luxury homes in the U.S., reported a 27% drop in new home contracts, which fell to 558 units.
"Typically in the boat-builder world, builders would do everything just because they could, " says Johns.
The last time the home-builder confidence index was above 50 was in April, 2006.
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