Like a forest, it grows over years and can be burned down with one spark.
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Hillen says the community never expected to see the memorial grow so quickly, from a few saplings to what now seems like a forest of nearly 300 trees.
In a sense, today's crisis is like a forest fire running through the ecosystem of the economy, clearing out the mature monocultures of the past and allowing a more heterogeneous blossoming of new start-ups to emerge and redefine markets.
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Doss suggests that innovation is more like a rain forest, than a plantation.
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The world of digital storage devices is often more like a living forest than single battle between competing technologies.
It looked like a lush forest floor, and left us close to tears.
We stole down some of the San Juan's narrowest veins, where the river felt more like a flooded forest and palm fronds hung low over their reflections.
"It just beggars belief that somebody would let a dog like this run loose in a forest that is regularly used by families, " she said.
Linked, that is, like dead trees in a forest pulling down new growth.
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It was looking like a first home league defeat for Forest since September 2009 after Nwankwo Kanu gave Portsmouth a lead they held until the 87th minute.
Such risks prompted investors to ditch CMOs like forest animals fleeing a fire.
When he had first taken up his trade, he had carried his brushes and pigments on his back, and walked the forest trails like a peddler.
While math was like a magnificent imaginary building for Tengo, literature was a vast magical forest.
Beneath the old man's shirt was an illustration of a forest, something like a coloured tattoo.
Scientists have tracked the ancestor of HIV to something like a zip code, a remote corner of the West African rain forest.
Walking beneath them is like being in the midst of a fluorescent forest.
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"When there is no clear path between what he called for in the State of the Union and then going on the road, and there's no road map about exactly when we're going to get into these issues, it's a little bit like shouting in the forest, " said Patrick Griffin, the White House legislative director under Clinton.
Dressed like a new-age Tinker Bell, 20-year-old de Forest bested a field that included the UK contender and 1980s hit-maker Bonnie Tyler.
Like Blue Pillar, PowerSecure, a Wake Forest, NC-based veteran of the energy services industry, is also jockeying for position in the networked energy space.
There's a very thick pall of smoke which smells kind of like a mixture of menthol and charcoal because there are quite a few eucalyptus trees in the forest.
For a lavish country-club-style atmosphere set in an urban forest of oaks and pines, plus athletic extras like a running track, three large outdoor pools, a 125, 000sqft fitness centre, tennis courts and a climbing wall, check out the 289-room Houstonian Hotel Club and Spa near the Galleria on the west side of town.
The Stone Forest, a set of towering rock formations, truly looked like a work of art.
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Gloucestershire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire are all upper-level authorities in a two-tier system with district councils like Cheltenham, Tamworth, Wyre Forest and Stratford-on-Avon underneath them.
GARCIA-NAVARRO: Meaning they can reduce a forest to a lawn in a few years, leaving vulnerable animals like the Galapagos tortoise struggling to survive.
Bob Sivinski, program director for the Forest Legacy Program in New Mexico, said that the ranch is like a bridge, a corridor for wildlife between two big tracts of federal land.
Robert Baade, an economist at Chicago's Lake Forest College, says that the perceived benefits of a successful Games like Sydney tend to be offset by the number of tourists who stay away.
At times it is as though they are playing games, hovering in the distance, then beside your ear for a moment, then gone again, evaporating like the water that nourishes this cloud forest and the town at its edge.
Robert Baade, an economist at Chicago's Lake Forest College, looked at the perceived benefits of a successful Olympics like Sydney and found that they tend to be offset by the number of tourists who stay away.
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