When I asked John Wood, founder and board chair of Room to Read, an international nonprofit organization focused on literacy and gender equality in education in Asia and Africa, about Khan, he said he was actually meeting with him this week.

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Upon arrival, indulge in a glass of wine and cheese in the dining room, on the deck, or in the fully equipped kitchen before playing board games by the wood-burning fireplace.

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Anthony Wood will remain Chairman of the Board.

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Mold in homes hasn't been tracked historically, but certain building practices like making homes more airtight, installing air-conditioning units and using materials like drywall and oriented strand board, an engineered wood product have made homes more conducive to mold growth than they were in the past, says Jeffrey May, principal scientist at May Indoor Air Investigations based in Tyngsborough, Mass.

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Sandy and Leo Conklin's barn-wood-only lumber yard in Susquehanna, Pa. usually keeps around 40, 000 linear feet of barn wood beams and 100, 000 feet of board on hand to meet the demand from architects and builders.

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Three decades of scalps, resulting from some of the most famous hostile takeovers, proxy fights and board assaults in American financial history, cover every cranny of his wood-lined corridors.

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Willamette Industries rejected a sweetened hostile takeover bid from rival wood-and-paper-products concern Weyerhaeuser in a unanimous vote of its board.

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The illusion is only broken when you see behind the wood panelling the iron support structure, embossed with the initials of the London Passenger Transport Board, from whom parts of Tube tunnel were borrowed to build the complex.

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