Pier One Imports competes with the likes of IKEA and Target in the home furnishing business, and its sales continue to increase despite hard times for retailers.

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Horton, Home Depot, Pier One and Sherwin Williams.

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The pontoon is accessed by steps at the end of the pier and one theory is the ferret was attracted by the smell of bait from fishermen.

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Pier 61 is one of the Chelsea Piers, constructed at the beginning of the 20th Century.

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They roost under the pier, making Aberystwyth one of the few towns in Wales where they flock, the RSPB said.

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He said the first breach was in not insisting the pier owners provide the name and contact details of more than one key holder.

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Hemmed between Mariposa Street, 23rd Street, Highway 280 and Pier 70, the nine square blocks of Dogpatch make up one of the few areas of the city that survived the 1906 earthquake and fire.

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Reached by a four-minute ferry ride from Cunnamore Pier on the mainland near Skibbereen, the quaint, whitewashed building is one of the many traditional-style cottages that still outnumber the bungalows blighting much of the Irish countryside.

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Centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani on Monday issued an ultimatum to anti-establishment comic Beppe Grillo, who gained one in four votes, to support a new government or return to the polls.

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One of the Navy's premier warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pier-side in Norfolk, Va.

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