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...And Lego, basically, just has the brick and the Minifigure....
...Atelier Oï has also created a huge rectangular version of its Marble Arches table, a monolith made from a single block of marble....
...During the quarter, however, those businesses — including the brick maker Acme and flooring group Shaw — were able to raise prices and registered strong demand....
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...A one-bedroom apartment in Primrose Mansions, a red-brick block on Prince of Wales Drive, which last sold for £575,000 in 2015, is now listed at £600,000, after two price reductions....
...The average cost of concrete products like blocks, bricks, tiles and flagstones increased by 7 per cent in the year to November, according to Office for National Statistics figures....
...Social distancing means more people who would normally use a brick and mortar tax preparer such as H&R Block are opting to file from home using TurboTax instead....
...Its plastic bricks do not decompose, ensuring parents’ blocks stored for decades in an attic can joyfully be presented to the next-generation tots eager to get building....
...Turning tax credits into billions The affordable housing assets that Blackstone has agreed to buy are built of bricks, mortar, and legal artifice....
...The pristine red-brick mansion blocks and luxury emporia of Mayfair bask in a glorious Indian summer’s day. “Not a cloud in the fucking sky,” Cohen says....
...The bountiful trays of high-end sushi and tempura went to the shabbier apartment blocks....
...The owner of Office Depot has rebuffed a $2.1bn takeover bid from its larger rival Staples, saying it was open instead to negotiating a more limited deal between the two largest US bricks-and-mortar stationery...
...The dowdy brick building just north of Omaha’s centre was once a convent....
...Visa has called off its deal to buy fintech start-up Plaid for $5.3bn after the US Department of Justice sued to block the transaction on antitrust grounds....
...Possible buyers include bricks and mortar retail chain Petco; $9bn online pet-supplies seller Chewy; and Wag’s rival Rover....
...Canaccord Genuity loves its bricks: While Michelmersh has recently started an orderly reopening of its plants, most of the listed brick and block companies' plants remain temporarily suspended....
...In 2017, Apple filed an appeal to the Supreme Court, asking it to block the lawsuit on the basis of a 1977 precedent set in a case called Illinois Brick, which said only the direct buyers of a product could...
...If asking nicely doesn’t work, Beijing could still easily block GitHub via the state-owned telecoms providers....
...The queue to get in on a recent afternoon stretched round the block, although many visitors were there more for the experience than bona fide Christmas shopping....
...The public front of the building remains the 1919 Police Headquarters Block on Hollywood Road, executed in a kind of sub-Lutyens red brick municipal style, now opened out to accommodate restaurants and retail...
...There’s a photo of it from 1999, a necrotic frame house on which a yellow awning proclaims many Chinese characters and “Phoenix Poultry Market Inc”....
...But Dollar Tree’s 2018 forecast left investors questioning whether the trend is hitting its stride or reaching a stumbling block....
...This unloved rectangular slab of red brick and concrete reflects the austerity of late-1950s Britain....
...Shoppers increasingly prefer to spend on experiences rather than “stuff” and when they do buy things, they tend to do it online rather than in traditional brick and mortar stores....
...Thousands of items from the collection of jerseys, bags and other goods emblazoned with Supreme’s block logo have ended up on eBay at 1.5 to five times the retail price, according to an FT analysis....
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