After the failure of my interior decorating business I realized that in my attempts to rescue it I had inadvertently learned a little about marketing.
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Little by little (not without committing many mistakes, as I said before), I trained my eye, my mind and my spirit and was able to develop an art collection that is coherent, cohesive and is integrated with all other elements of my interior design.
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My idea of interior design is telling my kids to clean up their rooms.
When that was dry, I sanded it and then painted the entire console using automotive paint to match my existing interior.
Part of my delight in this interior was the sense of being enveloped rather than directed to a particular destination.
When Ken Salazar became my Secretary of the Interior, one of his very first acts was to clean up the worst of the corruption at this agency.
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The highlight of my career so far was penning the interior design of the XTS and developing it with a team of people that share my same passion for cars.
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Then there's my favorite example: The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they're in freshwater, but the Commerce Department handles them in when they're in saltwater.
And the side zip, coupled with the highly structured interior, made digging my hand in to retrieve something while on the go an annoyingly difficult task.
The interior is roomy and my large suitcase easily slid into the trunk with room to spare, though the car is actually over 3 inches shorter than the previous model.
Although we had only paid nine years of premiums, we received a giant influx of money that would sustain us until my mom reinvented herself as an interior designer when I was in high school and reentered the workforce on her own terms.
Some of the interior detailing is not to my taste, but is down to customer specification.
My first dislike about this car is the red leather interior.
An added bonus is that my wife and I don't have to contend with interior design challenges that often accompany speaker placement.
It has been my honor to host the conference at the Department of the Interior every year and to meet with so many dedicated, visionary leaders who are making a difference in Indian Country.
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Huge chunks of my life were once fraught with what I perceived to be career-terminating threats, most of them interior but no less real for that.
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Extras: On my test cars additional features included the moonlight blue metallic paint, allroad Premium Plus Model with auto-dimming interior mirror with compass, auto-dimming power-folding, heated exterior mirrors, Audi music interface with iPod cable, Bluetooth, driver information system, heated front seats with driver memory, HomeLink garage door opener, Audi xenon pluse lighting with LED DRL, three-zone climate control and power tailgate.
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And so what my bill is saying, you do what you want to do but you cannot get money through the Department of Interior as long as you're discriminating against the freedmen.
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