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At the other there is the New Era Hotel, a blank, green, glass tower block.
BBC: China's changing face
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Installed in a sleek glass office block in Caracas, General Baduel, a man as serene as the president is intemperate, has spent the past few weeks telling Venezuelans that the proposed reform amounted to another coup.
ECONOMIST: Defeat for Hugo Ch��vez
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The mere acquisition of a smooth block of metal and glass does not magically persuade people that they should start paying for news.
ECONOMIST: American newspapers
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Sir Terry, like Sir Peter, comes from modest origins in Merseyside, but whereas the quiet, lean Sir Terry still collects visitors personally from the lobby of Tesco's shabby headquarters in Cheshunt, the charismatic, rotund Sir Peter directs Sainsbury's fortunes from a glass-and-steel office block in central London and seems most at home at the Royal Opera House, where he is a director.
ECONOMIST: Face value
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The artist noted the significance of showing in New York "Precious Stonewall" (2010), a block tower of blown-glass bricks draped in beads hand-cut in India.
WSJ: Jean-Michel Othoniel's Retrospective My Way in Brooklyn
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Maris couldn't walk a city block without some new passer-by asking if that was Project Glass, how it worked and, of course, whether they could try it on.
ENGADGET: Bill Maris, the Man Behind Google Ventures, on the Present Challenges and Future Potential of Glass