It is difficult to overstate the value of being able to bring a high-performance collection system like the SR-71 rapidly to bear virtually anywhere in the world, without regard to daylight or weather conditions.
Rather, online has instead provided a better crowd-sourced collection of advice from like-minded consumers, while at the same time making returns easier and less emotional.
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She cites changes we have made before as a society to improve our way of life--changes like waste collection and public education-- as models for how we need to change the world again.
The gers also house a limited-edition collection of Mongolian-inspired products, like chunky jewellery, fur-trimmed leather handbags, ornamented enamel picture frames, candles and housewares.
The funkiest of all is the kitschy but very cool downtown Neon Museum (2012), an outdoor walk-through collection laid out like an artful junkyard, connected with walking paths, steps and ramps to showcase the city's neon legacy.
In this case from collegiate sports, a collection of schools with like-minded philosophical and academic missions have opted to leave money on the table and receive less media money initially in order to protect the long-term legacy of their brand value of their conference name.
His fall collection has brushed-cotton trousers cut like jeans, available in half a dozen colors that include autumnal reds and oranges.
The homes have other environmentally-friendly technologies like rainwater collection systems and solar heating.
Fortunately, the group is a collection of bellwether retailers, like Wal-Mart and Target, that often neatly underscore consumer sentiment.
He's CEO of ShopRunner, a subsidiary of e-tail-services company GSI Commerce that recently launched a Prime-like service for a collection of offline retailers.
Ravi, who was planning to major in math and economics, had learned that he had been assigned to Davidson Hall a collection of single-story, barracks-like dorms on Busch campus, which is considered the dullest of the four Rutgers campuses in New Brunswick and neighboring Piscataway.
The Piombo collection is like a postcard of the 50-year-old peripatetic designer's adventures in color and texture.
It was formed in 1993, when Bluhm sold the public a 61% stake in JMB's collection of lucrative shopping malls--among them landmarks like downtown Chicago's Water Tower Place and Boston's Copley Place.
These coach contracts are just another example of nonprofit educational institutions acting more like for-profit corporations than a collection of teachers supported by taxpayer dollars.
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Often, you can buy just 10 to 12 types of investments, ranging from cash-like stable value funds to bonds and a collection stock funds.
Like Q, Mendez has a collection of gadgets -- among them, a skin mole that carries a piece of espionage equipment called a bullet lens, and a coat on which one button is the lens to a concealed camera.
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From trolls with pizza aprons to songs about sauce to pizza-themed arcade games, the collection will rotate through the restaurant like an interactive art installation.
Another older Shinjuku gem is Jazz Pub Michaux, a bar whose white-bearded, kimono-and-Mongolian-cap-wearing 76-year-old owner has 4, 500 records of hard-bop and soul-jazz, including a large collection of rare vinyl by artists like Baby Face Willette and Groove Holmes.
The collection "embarks on a voyage to the future, marrying modern, spacesuit-like construction details and a new sophisticated grunge attitude, " Minkoff wrote in her notes.
But if Discover catches on, it could transform eBay's massive collection of one-off, unusual items into an advantage against more mainstream competitors like Amazon, he says.
Just like his character Pee-wee, Reubens has a pretty impressive toy collection.
The mayor is also reducing the number of bureaus in order to promote horizontal linkages over top-down policy-making, and giving local communities more autonomy in running operations like garbage collection.
Ever bargain-savvy, many students slip into the free, open-to-the-public previews of high-end contemporary art sales to take in works like the Phillips de Pury collection even if they are likely not yet in a position to purchase.
The Sulaco, like all military bases everywhere, has the usual collection of ammo and health power-ups semi-randomly strewn around.
But for many years there was no general agreement about what Santa should look like: Among the oddities in Shirley's 6, 000-volume collection are a Santa dressed in colonial garb, and a thin, balding Santa dressed in brown.
Set around a rotunda that mirrors the gentle curves of the porcelain, the Korean collection is housed in an ochre building by architect Mario Botta with a turret and battlements--"Like a castle guarding traditional art, " says Park Min-sun, a Leeum spokeswoman.
Of the three, trash collection seemed like the "easiest place to cut, " said Lindsay Webb, who oversees the public-service budget for the city council.
"Falling Cars and Junkyard Dogs" (Soft Skull Press) is a collection of autobiographical vignettes illustrated by the author's own black-and-white photographs, which, like his music, evoke a vanishing America.
That's all thanks to a collection of six sensors, which keep tabs on metrics like temperature, ambient light, humidity and motion -- whether it's fingers about to touch the display or people passing in and out of the room.
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Some collections are displayed behind glass, some are perched on shelves and others, like the famed Milton Robson car collection, is displayed in a massive, 40, 000-square-foot climate-controlled garage that Robson designed himself, said agent Leighann Russell of Funari Realty.
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