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The toy is distributed in the U.S. by Brio, a public Swedish company known for wooden train sets.
The local press says Japanese firms won a multimillion-dollar contract for wooden ceiling beams after bidding at least twice as much as U.S. rivals.
The toy is distributed in the U.S. by Brio , a public company based in Sweden that is known for wooden train sets.
In the main Beijing office, a homely red-painted house in a courtyard littered with bicycles, visitors would be handed staff cards printed on recycled paper and given metal reusable chopsticks, together with a lecture on how much of China's virgin forest was disappearing for wooden chopsticks every year.
The 62-year-old Stanford-educated engineer has a reputation for being wooden and lacking charisma .
Yet many frontier cities in the United States still hold an affection for the wooden sanctuary, paying it a special kind of homage each year.
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Wales are favourites for the wooden spoon, having lost all four of their matches so far, while England are level on points with France and Ireland after losing just once.
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In addition to wooden popsicles, Savoldi is responsible for the 4 Watt Wooden Lamp, a collection of 50 incandescent-shaped lamps handmade from a variety of woods including pine, beech, and alder.
For them, Wooden's words can serve as a both a beacon and a challenge.
Nash is renowned throughout the art world for his enormous wooden sculptures.
They set up literacy classes, and tried to teach Haitians the need to manage even their small incomes: that instead of paying for an ornate wooden coffin, a cardboard one would be perfectly satisfactory.
Their family textile-dyeing-and-printing trade, handed down for generations, uses natural vegetable dyes and wooden hand blocks for printing.
Sometimes stone knives would be lashed onto a bone or wooden handle for easier use.
The smell of goat roasting at a food stall drew us for supper at a wooden table.
Simon gets the glorious wooden spoon for completing the challenge in 45mins 20secs.
"We have been frugal people, and we have tried to save as much as we can, and that is one of the reasons why I have been able to stay home with Max, " said Chris, who builds wooden toys for his son.
On Dec. 6, Alaska's State Museum in Juneau debuted an exhibit of the five recently returned fragments of the moon, which in 1969 were encased together in a lucite sphere and mounted to a wooden podium for presentation to Alaska by then-President Richard Nixon.
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But if roughing it is a bit too extreme, a new breed of boutique campsite, where tents take precedence over caravans has also emerged, offering facilities that actually work as well as winning extras like hammocks in the heather, mountain bike trails on site and even heated wooden wigwams for those looking to cheat a little.
Villagers along the pilgrimage route to the Marian shrine of Our Lady of the Snow in Marija Bistrica in Hrvatsko Zagorje in northern Croatia developed a technique for traditional manufacturing of children's wooden toys that has now been handed down for generations.
Metal is not to be found save for vintage weapons adorning the wooden walls.
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"For the idea of tall wooden buildings to be viable they have to be cost effective, " says Green.
Locke was found guilty of arson for setting fire to a wooden bench but Mr Wood was cleared of arson.
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The drip from a plugged gutter tapped heavily, like a bully nagging for attention, on the wooden cover of a cellar-window well.
He worked a week or so for Pacific Box, stacking wooden crates, or bringing slats to the men at the nailing machines.
He apologized and moved the rear of his overlarge pants to the spot designated for him, on a wooden bench on the other side of the garden table.
Mr Gildea, a talented sports journalist with a ready following among American readers, is nostalgic for the days when crowds of 125, 000 jammed into wooden stadiums to watch prizefights although not, of course, for the racism that then infected this and other sports.
Bache Cellar is a huge, funky restaurant with barely a wooden ceiling and sand for a floor.
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