At one time, every town in the country had at least one frame builder, but the craft largely disappeared over the past couple of decades as cheap, mass produced bikes were imported from Asia.
The radical minimalism of these machines, built mostly in Europe in the 1950s and early '60s, reflected the region's postwar scarcity. (One resourceful builder beat old cooking pots into fender panels.) They typically measure 10 feet long or less, with less than 700-cc engine displacement and one or two seats arranged side by side or in tandem, scooter style.
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One recent example is Chinese property builder Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd.
The building that collapsed in Thane had seven floors and the builder was adding an eighth one, said Vijay Nlawad, an officer at the local police station.
In between, we pass through three spaces, each dedicated to one of Herod's main legacies: as builder, leader of the Jews and ally of Rome.
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One is the Harrison County Sports Authority (the Texas builder of sports stadiums).
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The redesigned MAINGEAR Solo 21 upgrades its performance and its looks from the first boutique builder to offer upgradeable all-in-one PCs.
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's Concern brand is one of two dozen companies offering an alternative to Turf Builder in a lawn fertilizer weed-control product that is derived from corn (but kills weeds like crabgrass only as they germinate).
"If you order the pink carpet, we're probably going to ask you to put the full deposit on that one, " says Bob Martin, the Denver-based builder's vice president of finance and business development who is currently picking out upgrades for his new home.
The builder chose to invite everyone to buy and alienated no one.
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Throughout his life, John Walton pursued various business interests, at one time working as a crop duster and later as a boat builder.
If the Fed stops buying, "it would be the beginning of a crisis again, and we haven't emerged from the last one, " said Larry Sorsby, chief financial officer at home builder Hovnanian Enterprises Inc.
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Thousands gathered for her launch but no-one looked upon her with greater admiration and pride than the eyes of her builder, the then 65-year-old naval architect William Francis Gibbs.
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One of the biggest public expenditures, that for education, is a sure wealth builder.
"I love these guys, " says one client, Mark Corrales, head of operations at Fort Point Partners, a website builder in the Sutter Street building.
It was supposed to be a confidence builder, but the Federal Reserve's emergency rate cut Tuesday sends just one message: The Fed is following.
Custom-builts approach the power and speed of racers, but, as one-of-a-kinds, they also reflect the distinctiveness and eccentricities of the builder and the owner.
"I love these guys, " says one client, Mark Corrales, head of operations at Fort Point Partners, a Web-site builder in the Sutter Street building.
Building that team is job one for the entrepreneur who shifts, as she did, from a lifestyle business owner to an empire builder.
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