• Besides rising costs of building materials, there is a shortage of construction workers.

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  • Now the opera house's admirers are embroiled in a dispute about another building rising a stone's throw away, and which threatens to spoil the view.

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  • Furthermore, rising housing starts and building permits in the U.S. should help the market, the bank continued.

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  • The facade is austere white marble and black granite, with a towering auditorium rising above the main building.

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  • Unemployment is sliding, home selling and building is rising and GDP reports are expected to be revised upward.

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  • The death toll continued to climb Tuesday from the April 24 collapse of the Bangladesh garment-factory building, rising to 705.

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  • The owners said the old labor deal didn't take into account the rising costs related to building stadiums and promoting the game.

    CNN: Players, owners sign deal to end NFL lockout

  • The death toll continued to climb Wednesday from the April 24 collapse of the Bangladesh garment-factory building, rising to 803, and the country's government forced 18 factories to shut down temporarily while they make safety improvements.

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  • The council has been housed in the Grade I listed hall, set within 42 acres of gardens and parklands, since 1974 but said it now needed less space and maintenance costs on the building were rising.

    BBC: Kelham Hall

  • Educated in the United Arab Emirates, Pallavi is in no doubt that there is a connection between the building boom and the rising number of young women studying architecture.

    BBC: Bridging the Gulf: Women architects in the UAE

  • Here, the post office building, destroyed in the Rising and rebuilt in the same Georgian style, was brimming with people.

    BBC: Where Yeats spoke with ghosts

  • An exodus of people from Tokyo is building as the threat of rising radiation levels is prompting many to flee the capital.

    FORBES: Japanese Stocks Rebound Despite Growing Radiation Fears

  • Elsewhere, the housing market was buoyed in November by low mortgage rates, with housing starts rising 4.5%, but building permits, which are seen as an indicator of future activity, slipped 5.4%.

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  • The location every "Pride and Prejudice" fan wants to visit is, of course, Pemberley -- "a large, handsome, stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills, " as Austen describes it.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • But television images of the wreckage of the UN building, and suggestions that rising numbers of Islamist militants are slipping into Iraq from countries such as Syria and Saudi Arabia, have served as a graphic reminder of Iraq's current fragility.

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  • As I explain in my new publication just out this week from Encounter Books, Obama and the Crash of 2013, more likely than recovery is a renewed double dip recession in 2013, with all the tax rate increases, regulatory burdens building to a crescendo, rising interest rates by then, etc. resulting from Obamanomics.

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  • At the Seinaejoki Civic Center, begun in 1958, where the land is flat, he designed both land and building together as a series of rising grassy platforms ascending to the elevated city hall.

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  • Its dazzling white marble roof is a walkable, tilted plane that slips into the Oslo fjord at the building's lowest point, rising from the harbor's edge as a series of angled, switchback surfaces to the structure's top.

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  • Boyd Fellows, Starwood Property president, says when the company began building its business, property values were rising but traditional lenders remained on the sideline.

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  • Building awareness through films like "Girl Rising" that pressure governments to implement laws against child marriage and educating communities like World Vision does in Bangladesh.

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  • These have been building up in the atmosphere, and the temperature has been rising.

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  • The ship would use 60% wind power, relying on three computer-operated masts rising 55-meters -- as tall as a 14-storey building.

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  • Mr Gardner reminds us that the growth of the population has been far outstripping the hopelessly inadequate level of new house building, while the number of people in employment has been rising.

    BBC: Is the mortgage freeze about to thaw?

  • If houses are destroyed by a tornado, rising lumber prices tell someone in an unaffected area to think twice about building a new deck because the lumber is probably more valuable rebuilding houses.

    FORBES: Price Gouging Laws Hurt Storm Victims

  • Perhaps the growth in the military budget reflects China's growing wealth and prestige, along with a desire to protect its rising shipments of oil and other commodities: the country seems bent on building a blue-water navy.

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  • Floodwaters rising, the staff, increasingly cut off from the outside world, fled the building famously in the back of newspaper delivery trucks.

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  • Rising above the Peak Tram terminus is the seven-storey Peak Tower, an anvil-shaped building containing shops, restaurants, tourist items and a viewing terrace.

    BBC: The amazing views of Hong Kong

  • China housing prices have been relatively stable all year, rising no more than 1 percent in cities like Shanghai thanks to government controls on buying, lending and building.

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  • Furthermore, although house prices are still rising fast they increased by 11% in the year to June, according to the Nationwide building society higher interest rates should eventually cool the market.

    ECONOMIST: Economic prospects

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