Apart from that, we have these big bodies set up called the International Money Tree Fund and the World Bank out of Washington.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest Christmas tree ever cut was a 221-foot Douglas fir displayed in Seattle, Washington.
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The television series would start with the second book, The Elfstones of Shannara, about heroes trying to stop demons from re-entering their world as the magical Ellcrys tree that binds the demons is weakening.
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In February international publicity forced a hotel, the Mangrove Tree Resort World in Hainan, a southern vacation island, to close a casino bar for guests that paid out winnings in tokens that could be redeemed for hotel rooms and spent in resort shops.
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In developing its series of abodes, Greystoke Mahale, perched on the shores of Lake Tanganyika (the second largest and deepest freshwater lake in the world), placed the shelters just inside the tree line, creating a front-door view that is nothing but white sand and the glimmering water beyond.
WHO's Essential Drugs Programme (a worthy attempt to work out a minimum list of the drugs that should be available in every country in the world), describes the organisation as being like a Christmas tree on whose branches new projects are hung at random, frequently without regard to what is there already.
Once there, Sunshine has a wonderfully heady, top-of-the-world atmosphere, with more than half of the skiing above tree line.
First it was sub zero temperatures, now what is believed to be the world's most northerly grove of a Jurassic tree has weathered one of the wettest Julys.
Among this year's faves: Conde Nast readers selected the Banyan Tree Phuket as the world's best spa resort.
Greens say that one of the latest victims last month was the world's biggest flowering hardwood tree in Tasmania's Florentine Valley.
When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?
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News of the financial meltdown of Dubai World, a quasi-sovereign global concern that owns 77% of the international port manager DP World and the single largest real estate developer in Dubai known for its palm-tree shaped luxury residential developments, has raced from the business pages to the headlines of the front pages in a matter of days.
And this year we decorated it -- we call it our Joining Forces tree, because the decorations -- the main decorations on the tree are handmade ornaments from military kids who live in bases all across the world.
Djokovic beat the Swiss maestro in the final of the ATP World Tour Finals in London in November as he went back to the top of the global tree, also beating Murray in their round robin group match.
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Somewhere in the world--a state park in the U.S., most likely--that tree will soak up the carbon dioxide greenhouse gases produced in the operation of that PC.
The report also says that the composition of the world's forests is likely to change because some tree species will not be able to move northwards (or to higher altitudes) to escape the encroaching warmth.
It is an apt place to browse this fossilised tree resin that resembles gemstones, as the majority of the world's amber is found along the shores of the Baltic Sea.
Wisdom Tree is one of the biggest exchange traded fund companies in the world.
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White apple blossoms had begun to appear in the old tree, and I read the pale light in the sky as the shy illumination of a world to which I had yet to be introduced.
The first tree was brought over in 1947 as a token of Norwegian appreciation of British friendship during the Second World War.
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Environmentalists take heart, as LG Electronics is out doing some good in the world, and its forthcoming 52-inch HD plasma provides that widescreen beauty you adore with a sense of tree-luvin' satisfaction to boot.
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