Given these priorities, Toshiba has assigned production of different lines to selected countries: refrigerators and other white goods in Thailand, televisions and other brown goods in Singapore, and information equipment in the Philippines.

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One special visitor's planned arrival to Fire Island is creating a pressing deadline for the cleanup of tons of rotting wood, sheet rock, old refrigerators and other Superstorm Sandy debris from the popular vacation destination east of New York City.

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Got rid of a couple of refrigerators, but other than that it was fine.

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In 1928, Thomas Midgley, Albert Henne, and Robert McNary synthesized the first chlorofluorocarbons (trademarked as Freon in 1930), ushering in safe refrigerators and air conditioning (other coolants eventually replaced Freon).

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It works like this: Say a Cuban assembly plant wants to import electric and other parts from China to make fans and refrigerators.

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Naif Marine Services, which operates the ferry, wanted to equip their ship richly with television sets and refrigerators, but the American navy had other ideas.

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Hoffman helped build Priceline.com, the name-your-own-price travel site, part of tech holding company Walker Digital, and later headed up other Walker business units, including Priceline YardSale, which applied the auction model to selling everything from toys to refrigerators.

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