"It was like building a whole new business, " recounts Sam To, Topin's general manager.
We passed a warehouse-like building under construction where several men in hard hats were at work.
Their purchases enabled him to build a cathedral-like building that still stands in Lower Manhattan.
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But think of it like this: the new economy we're building, it's like building a house.
This pyramid-like building is the Church of San Agustin in Paoay in the Northern Luzon.
It is like building a huge campfire with flames that reach 100 feet high, to roast weenies.
But cancer is so complicated that it makes the Apollo moon landing seem like building a model airplane.
Building your attention is like building any other muscle in your body.
At last, we arrived, and pulled up to a huge hangar-like building.
Putting money aside for retirement while shortchanging emergency monies is like building the second floor of a house while ignoring the foundation.
Still, sustaining the vision over time, like building a sustainable community, will require the embrace and support of local residents, merchants, commercial tenants, and consumers.
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There are worse problems, though, like building products no one wants.
"That's like building churches just for Christmas and Easter, " says Brewster.
One reason is that pilots start from scratch, so some costs that would normally be spread out over 22 episodes--like building sets--get condensed into one show.
Famous for its size -- the warehouse-like building stretches for an entire city block -- this location is just one of five Powell's stores in the city.
And to do that, it's like building the Transcontinental Railroad.
To celebrate the design, it created a full-size model of part of this open space in the massive hangar-like building where parts of the ship were being built in Finland.
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The good news is that the BRIC approach is better than trying to build your own diversified portfolio, which would be like building a house out of straw or sticks.
The results of this study indicate that solutions cannot be found in simple measures like building walls and fences, putting up bars, using metal detectors, or employing private security services.
Other housing-related names like building products maker Masco, paint company Sherwin-Williams, and even massive retailer Home Depot, are also ahead of Apple over the last 12 months.
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But the thing about this project that makes me most happy is the passion, joy and satisfaction I felt while working on it with two guys who I like building stuff with.
Fluor gets 58% of its revenues from oil-and-gas-related projects, and about 75% of that is in "downstream" services like building refineries and modernizing old ones so that they can remove sulfur from heavier grades of crude.
Giovanna Sardelli, who also has directed Joseph's "Animals Out of Paper, " has helmed this one not by steadily increasing the temperature but more like building a roller coaster, with sharp spikes of tension followed by slackness.
Incentive backed challenges attract "maverick thinkers who challenge normal assumptions" and make heroes of the teams who compete in these paradigm-changing efforts to solve significant social problems like building the ultimate fuel-efficient car or developing a lunar landing vehicle.
Those costs get paid by increased premiums for the people who do buy insurance, or they get paid for through socialized costs and claim our tax revenues and come at the expense of other things that people might want to do, like building roads and bridges.
Meanwhile, three-year-old Code For America, a nonprofit that recruits experienced coders nationally for projects like building databases for local governments, has expanded its annual fellowship program from three to nine projects and last year launched a broad "brigade" of volunteer techies to work on ad hoc civic programs.
"It's like team building - we hang out and drink coffee after the match".
When the facade opens, "It looks like the building's falling in on itself, " he said.
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