Julian straightened up in his tin chair.

NEWYORKER: Idols

It only stayed in the black because tin prices were propped up by a producers' cartel.

CNN: Tin Time in Indonesia

The price of nickel is up by a quarter, while tin has risen more than 55% in 2010.

BBC: Copper enters 2011 at record high

Fill up this bag with a sheet of tin, a few grains of gold, a gram of silver, some plywood, a pork belly and some palladium.

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Visitors from cities such as Bangkok and Chiang Mai continue to trek up the winding dirt road to the tin-roofed retreat Mr. Thongbai built at the top of Hidden Hill here to pray before Buddha statues and paintings of Suthat.

WSJ: In Thailand, It's Hard to Predict

He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack.

CNN: Obama: Time to reclaim America's promise

Star of the show is the 100-year-old wood-and-tin house with old beams, which sleeps up to eight people.

BBC: Mini guide to Reykjav��k, Iceland

It was Rose who slaved in the Sussex Laundry and washed up in pubs, putting the money carefully into a tin from which George borrowed.

ECONOMIST: Rose Davis

The perhaps predictable result is that the bankers lived up to the low expectations of their common sense, and devised ever more clever ways to raid the biscuit tin without being seen.

BBC: If banks are treated as naughty kids...