Since labour chases wealth, soon the mountain towns were brimming with favelas (self-built settlements), hurled up haphazardly on treacherous slopes.
Mark Clare, group chief executive of Barratt Developments, the UK's biggest housebuilder, said that self-built homes still needed to be financed and expertise needed to put them up.
Around 70% of Brazilians own their own homes, but many of these (around 85%, Mr Paim de Andrade estimates) are self-built one room at a time, and are of low quality.
So it's a little rich that this great referee boondoggle is entirely self-inflicted, built at the top.
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Skylon reminds me of the optimistic days of my childhood when 60s Britain, still humming with aeronautical self-belief, built its own rockets and supersonic warplanes.
Henry Seydoux , whose company is best known for the hands-free sets it builds for cars, has just built a self-stabilizing quadricopter you can control with an iPhone.
Still, where there is a will there is often a way: We estimate that most of the 40 richest are entirely or mostly self-made, having built fortunes in diverse sectors such as ceramic tiles, airlines and banks.
Self-made entrepreneurs, both built their companies from scratch and clawed their way up.
Fifty self-contained flats will be built on the old Newton Abbot hospital site, 10 of which will be specifically for dementia sufferers.
The son of a Berkeley civil engineering professor, Pister first built tiny self-propelled robots, such as a mechanical fly that could take wing and transmit data.
With the help of a machinist, and using a formula he concocted for a stiff, self-lubricating plastic, Fenelon built a crude prototype of the gear and found that the torque required to push the window was half of what the old design required.
The self-portrait on this page was built by Ken Kremer and Marco Di Lorenzo.
That sort of self-confidence and chutzpah was what built America.
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The sensory garden was built near the self-contained bungalow where Aaron lives in his foster parents back gaden because the smells are supposed to be therapeutic for his condition.
The festival is held by the Yasaka Shrine in the neighbourhood of Gion and the thirty-two floats are built by the residents of the city's self-governing districts, who have transmitted the tradition for many years.
The status of "self-appointed community gatekeepers" may be built up "at the expense of more legitimate community and political voices who don't associate with violence".
The fact is, mortgages in general, and the uniquely American 30-year fixed rate, prepayable, self-amortizing mortgages in particular are, like many long-term assets with built-in options, extremely difficult to price properly.
The inner would be built in a succession of self-supporting horizontal rings.
Sure, both programs started with altruistic intentions, but the built-in goal of self-financing helped the Timberland alliance stay on track, and that will help ensure the long-term success of the project.
As hinted by the self-centered name, the Egoista Concept is built to let the company toot its own horn, and won't be sold -- anyone who gets a test drive will be part of a very exclusive (and likely ecstatic) club, as you might gather from the video after the break.
Any skill-based team, built around real functional experts, requires strong, in-touch, self-confident leadership, and Amundsen exemplified these leadership attributes.
Finally, many self-made philanthropists seek to translate the lessons that built their business successes into the social sector .
Jonathan Coulton has built an insanely profitable empire based on self-distributed music.
It would also mean reinventing the way we run organizations, built not on the sole basis of self-regarding profit-seeking motives, but rather organizations that are focused on providing thick value and delighting their customers.
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That transcontinental railroad, completed in 1893, was the only one built entirely with private money on privately purchased land, by a self-made railroad tycoon, James J.
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Having built on his inheritance, Thapar insists most of his present wealth is self-made.
But we do think that the public response to his self-control shows how poorly Stoic qualities can go over in our times: a philosophy built on emotional control seems strange in the age of over-sharing.
There, working with local community groups, he built a business for Unilever that offers a branded, affordably-priced, self-contained plastic toilet and a toilet cleaning service run by a local social business which uses Unilever cleaning products.
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Rome was not built in a day and trying to completely change your financial life all at once is self-defeating.
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