His name was worth millions to developers during the great course-building boom of the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s, thus assuring his projects of choice tracts of land and big budgets.
The children built a castle, of course, but castle-building is rather poor fun when you have no hope of the swishing tide ever coming in to fill up the moat and wash away the drawbridge, and, at the happy last, to wet everybody up to the waist at least.
You can, of course, do a building that's eco-responsible but aesthetically worthless.
But of course there is nothing to stop charities taking such confidence-building measures themselves.
Would-be salespeople undergo a one-week crash course -- a combined boot camp and pep rally -- that hammers home basic principles of selling and character- building.
Of course, startup Netledger had the luxury of building from scratch -- not always an option for large brick-and-mortar companies.
Of course, NVIDIA's engineers won't be hand-building the "tens of thousands more units" that arrive later this year -- a team of "quick-turn manufacturing specialists" at NVIDIA is handling that.
Another scenario: Johnson's many critics will reverse course and sing his praises for succeeding at his real job--building the business and creating wealth for himself, his employees and his shareholders.
The location every "Pride and Prejudice" fan wants to visit is, of course, Pemberley -- "a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills, " as Austen describes it.
The department is hosting a half-day course entitled "Islamic Finance 101" on Thursday at its headquarters building.
The shuttle was almost halfway into the 12-hour journey back to its assembly building when Nasa managers reversed course.
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Whedon is a talented writer and director, and certainly hype for the film has been building for years and over the course of a number of origin-story prequels.
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The building being opened on Tuesday improves the course betting, social and weighing-in facilities and provides a more upmarket feel compared with the green shed it replaces.
The potential for a retracement, combined with building technical resistance, may force cruise stocks to re-chart their course.
Will Europe change course and accept that it is cutting spending too quickly and embark on a massive infrastructure-building programme?
The mid-westerners have their liberal traits, but they have mostly steered a centrist course, building ties with local business, balancing state budgets and treading lightly on taxes.
It documents a bureaucratic and budgetary mess in which federally-funded parks have been turned over to private developers building resorts, a golf course, and a McDonalds.
Her father, Mahmoud el-Gammal, is a real-estate developer who, in partnership with MGM Mirage, is building a huge golf course and residential and hotel complex called New Giza, with views of the Pyramids.
Of course our governors can encourage or mandate certain activities or stimulate or direct particular undertakings--land for railroad building in the 19th century, highway construction and space exploration in this one--but that's a far cry from directing the whole economy.
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