• Firefighters were called on 10 November to the site, near junction 8 of the M1, to tackle a blaze in what was described as being a 20ft (6m) high pile of timber.

    BBC: Appspond Lane blaze: Fire crews still visit

  • As work weeks continue to get longer and responsibilities pile high, finding time for your relationships can be difficult.

    FORBES: Who's Finding Love At Work?

  • As with WalMart, a pioneer of the pile it high and sell it cheap method of retailing.

    FORBES: Tesco's Lesson In How Not To Use Twitter

  • Charities continue to pile into high risk, high cost, opaque investments, such as structured notes, hedge funds and private equity and are prone to be victimized by other investment scams because they have failed to acknowledge and address the unique vulnerabilities related to managing the investment portfolios of these types of organizations.

    FORBES: Charities No Better At Investing Since Madoff

  • With two more Avatar movies in the works, Cameron can expect to keep his seat high atop the Hollywood earnings pile for years to come.

    FORBES: James Cameron Tops Vanity Fair's Hollywood Earners List

  • But surely no amount of creative marketing will stop the dust gathering on at least some of those 1.5m books at Waterstone's in Piccadilly when another pile, nearly as high, can be found around the corner.

    ECONOMIST: The book trade

  • This is partly because they pile up big majorities on high turnouts in safe seats, whereas Labour wins its safe seats on lower turnouts.

    ECONOMIST: Why the campaign will count in a contest that matters

  • Galen says when you pile that on top of high fuel prices and last year's low milk prices, it has been hard for the dairy industry to respond to the growing demand.

    NPR: Milk Costs Surge Due to Corn

  • For example, Exxon has refused to splurge on over-priced assets despite the huge cash pile it has thanks to high oil prices (a discipline not exercised by its smaller American rivals Chevron and ConocoPhilips, which are now gobbling up, respectively, Unocal and Burlington Resources).

    ECONOMIST: Oil

  • The mound is a pile of rubble, 30 feet high and maybe 200 feet across.

    NPR: With Climate Swing, a Culture Bloomed in Americas

  • Building a rubbish pile is, it turns out, surprisingly high-tech.

    ECONOMIST: A history of waste

  • Which is that much of that cash pile is offshore and would be subject to the high corporate income tax if it were returned to shareholders, who would then pay tax again on that income.

    FORBES: David Einhorn's Rather Trivial Victory Over Apple

  • Credit tightening is expected to hurt consumer retailers who have enjoyed high valuations for the last two years as emerging market investors pile into local shares that cater to the domestic market instead of the commodities and export markets.

    FORBES: Brazil Still an Underweight, Not a Short Sell

  • While the business side was always frustrating, the awards and critical acclaim continued to pile on as did his stable of high-profile clients, who range from Danes, whom he first dressed for the Academy Awards when she was 15, to Celia Cruz, the iconic Cuban singer.

    WSJ: Narciso Rodriguez's Life in Fashion

  • He pointed to a pile of bricks and tile in a corner where two high walls met.

    NEWYORKER: The Kingpins

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