The vessels were going to be so heavy that one critic suggested they would be more like bricks than boats.
Such is the intent, under the guise of convenience, of such foods as Ore Ida's blue French fries, Eastern Foods' purple pizzas, and ConAgra's Kid Cuisine, which features TV dinners like the Sandwich Builder a hamburger meal with a patty shaped like a house and cookies that look like bricks.
They wouldn't recognize good news if it dropped like gold bricks into their laps.
"Each family contributed, so they came to help us and we did odd jobs like unloading bricks, " Chen said.
But whether turning the rocks into concrete or asphalt, or into pricier items like decorative bricks for walkways, Hanson makes a decent living.
Renderings of the development, known as Marina Lofts, show three large towers that look like stacks of white bricks, with chunks missing and a jagged split between two of the buildings.
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Small businesses like this one are the bricks and blocks of our entire economy.
If you're not familiar, the 'P' in 4P stands for portable -- portable like a suitcase full of bricks.
Nokia's latest and greatest N-series devices just hit the market like a trio of well-aimed bricks -- or at least that's what Nokia's hoping.
Like those clever landscape architects who place bricks based on worn footpaths through the grass, we have examined how visitors have traveled through our website and made some new roads, as well as sprucing up the view a bit.
The box-like eight-floor structure had dark brown bricks as facing tiles on the outside walls, a style that became popular in Shanghai in the 1930s.
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It's the kind of picture that you want to associate with like if there's been a tsunami, you know, bricks flying all over the place.
If like me you have spent a lot of time building things from colourful bricks as a child, you will probably enjoy this app as much as I do.
But still, some (private) firm wins the design contract, and then some other (private) firm or (private) firms contract out the labor (or most of it) to do things like, environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks, stretching wire, managing the people who do environmental studies, surveying, accounting, pouring concrete, laying bricks and stretching wire.
Bioengineers, like computer programmers in the Linux open-source software movement, are encouraged to contribute "bricks" voluntarily, and can order the parts they need over the Internet.
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And if you get bored of virtual building and would like to be able to get your hands on the real thing, then you can also order the necessary bricks for your creation and Lego will package it up for you.
Like most multinationals it runs branded hotels under profit-sharing management contracts, while local investors tend to own the bricks and mortar.
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