But it is notoriously ill-suited to high-tech industries that have to tailor each item to a customer's specific needs (as in a data-switching centre or air-traffic-control system) or in which it is crucial that thousands of interrelated components all work correctly together (as in a rocket vehicle).
And what about that classic stuff-it-in-your-suitcase item, the terry robe?
And if you need the how-to instructions, click on the building guide mode - top left, third button - and it will give you the option to watch the item being built or alternatively you can generate a step-by-step building guide which you can then print out.
It would be a watered-down version of the line-item veto presidents have long craved but the Supreme Court has found unconstitutional.
As a UN official once put it in connection with the need to regulate small arms - another transie agenda item now endorsed by Team Obama - "Americans are citizens of the world just like everybody else, " adding that they better get used to it by getting with the program.
It changes the equation, however, if she thinks she might want to buy a big-ticket item like a house in the not-too-distant future.
Under current law, when you donate tangible personal property, such as art or furniture, you can deduct only the lesser of what you paid for it or what it's currently worth--unless the charity keeps and uses the item for an activity related to its charitable work.
Is it not a box-shaped item that is akin to your TV set?
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They saw it as a way to sell a high-ticket item, not to mention an opportunity "to meet superstars, " says Rome.
"It's one last look at my 50-item checklist that I've looked at for weeks and weeks and weeks, " he says smiling.
It designates an object as a photo, or the name of a well-known band, or an item in a holiday wish list, and so on.
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He believes the owner was probably a young girl who either lost it accidentally or threw the ring away after an falling-out with whoever gave the item to her.
It is fully engaging and clearly a top-agenda item.
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Although cigarettes can be sold by bar staff, the spokesman said many pubs would not opt to introduce that, as it raised issues about having a "high-value" item behind the bar and interfered with serving drinks.
It has to be the must-have item.
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This section is important but again more key for financial analysts because it contains the bulk of information regarding business metrics and the nitty-gritty details in the financial statements (it typically goes through each line item of income statements, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows).
Barring a constitutional amendment, it seems that the line-item veto may turn out to be one of America's shorter-lived fiscal experiments, at least at presidential level. (Forty-three state governors have this power, and it is under no threat there.) Despite its controversy, the veto does nothing to change the basic structure of budget-making.
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