We sit on the worn gray wooden bench in the sun in front of a concrete work shack and talk.
Everybody now knows that concrete blocks do not work in rainy countries.
Tomorrow, my fellow ministers and I will meet with business leaders from the United States and other APEC economies to work on concrete, practical measures that will help to level the playing field across the region.
If yin is a Volkswagen taxi taking a passenger to work, yang is a concrete mixer on its way to a building site.
They poured concrete, lugged bricks and cement and did metal work, with some clad in gloves and construction helmets.
He said there was some work being done in the pit by concrete workers at the time, who all escaped safely.
He had a vision of doing all of his class work digitally, a vision that became concrete once he acquired his first iPhone.
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David Bartram head of highways and engineering at Derby City Council said the work had been vital after lumps of concrete up to 9in (22cm) in size had fallen from the Derwent Underpass in December.
When asked by me, neither my dad, nor numerous friends and contacts in the working world who similarly attended HBS can offer up concrete examples of knowledge gained there that elevated their work product once graduated.
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This is why so many people come in early or work over the weekend when they actually have something concrete to do.
Connecting directly and in-person with customers arms you with concrete stories that you can take back to your team to work on solving real problems.
The bleakest moment came when a taxi driver taking a miner to work was killed when two striking miners dropped a concrete block on his car.
Half-baked ideas for new Fund programmes are not as helpful as would be concrete, albeit more modest-seeming, measures to help financial markets work better.
Builder Amey said work had been affected by the wet and freezing weather which had delayed the laying of concrete at the site.
On a more concrete level, affluent people may be more likely to get away with misbehavior (because they are less supervised at work, for example), and they may be more willing to take ethical risks because they have the resources to bail themselves out -- both literally and figuratively -- if they get caught.
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