"A lot of writers don't know about this market, " he was saying as he backed the Penske truck into a dock at a Yale warehouse and delivered Mr. Momaday's crates into the hands of their buyers.

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Many of the shirts still have the price tags attached, which the kids eagerly shove in each other's faces to compare costs, while crates of beer and liqueur are wheeled out of the store by the attendants.

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Mr. Siegel says business at his closely held timeshare company is now strong, and that he plans to resume construction on Versailles, beginning with nearly 300 crates of marble for the home's exterior.. "I'm not motivated to sell it, " he says.

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Last month, in the weeks running up to the Hajj - over 100 birds were found stuffed into crates at Calabar Airport, in Nigeria's far south-east.

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Presently, there are two models in the works, a "combat variant" that just includes exoskeleton legs and attaches at the waist, much like Lockheed Martin's HULC, and the full-body "logistics variant" for lifting crates, missiles, bombs... you know, the usual.

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Both cities progressed rapidly from manufacturing to industrial to financial capitals, and in the process, voraciously abetted by the appetites of their citizenry, both killed their oysters (Paris, the third great oyster metropolis, protected its beds far more successfully, and to this day shuckers presiding over crates of oysters packed in ice remain a common sight on the city's corners in winter).

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Working out of Canfield's tiny apartment, with two cell phones and a desk made out of a door and milk crates, the duo started looking for mintmakers and packaging sources.

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URI, which partnered with the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, says the apartments will include specialized cat-friendly screens over the windows as well as crates to comfortably house pets.

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