But recently they have started to catch up with the rest of the world when it comes to coveting the nearly new and Florence is host to the biggest used clothes fair in Italy.

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The Gilbert Institute of Erector Engineering proved an especially crafty ploy: Boys coveting the title "Master Engineer" first had to peddle ten Erector Tips subscriptions and, at Christmas, demonstrate Erector Sets in stores.

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The Gilbert Institute of Erector Engineering proved an especially crafty ploy: Boys coveting the title "Master Engineer" first had to peddle ten subscriptions to Erector Tips and, at Christmas, demonstrate Erector Sets in stores.

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And they also suffer from outsiders coveting the natural resources found on their land.

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Hasbro has a huge share in most big toy retailers, and whenever aged baby boomers go into a store they go nuts coveting all the cool stuff that never existed in the 1950s.

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Of course, a lack of legitimacy has not prevented NFL teams from coveting national champions in the past.

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More famous characters will no doubt appear as purchasable entities, but the connection to the Tolkein mythos is sufficiently skin-deep that I do not anticipate coveting them.

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Just as Nepalese children find themselves suddenly coveting American cars and hairstyles after watching reruns of 90210, fishermen the world over have become obsessed with catching bass wherever the fish has been introduced.

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