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...We’ve been somewhat remiss in our pursuit of proxy nuggets this year, due in part to a visit to the concrete jungle where dreams are made of....
...co-director Barnett Howland....
...A final explanation is a structural change in central bank demand for gold....
...Another is glulam, made by bonding individual laminations of solid timber sections to make beams and other structural members....
...Let me say one thing: the US has a fiscal deficit issue, which is structural. It should do something to reduce its deficit — I think that everyone kind of agrees to that....
...Outside, pigmented concrete has been used to form the retaining walls, floors and outdoor kitchen, while any non-structural walls have been rendered in a similar shade....
...The concrete platform off the coast of Belgium is unlikely to win awards for beauty....
...There are also structural impediments left from redlining, she says, including areas where the sidewalks are too narrow for trees....
...As co-curator Raina Lampkins-Fielder says, “This is art for art’s sake, and then some.”...
...“There’s a very concrete challenge, not just an abstract realisation that this is what others expect of us.”...
...“We’ve been doing construction in the same way for a long, long time,” says Kirsty Draper, head of sustainability at property advisers JLL, who co-authored the LPA report....
...Similarly, while more than 90 per cent of countries had some wage co-ordination in 1980, by 2020 it was only 60 per cent....
...We knew what direction we wanted to go, but it needed to be concrete, what the agencies would do....
...Marcus went on to make his fortune by co-founding Home Depot, the now ubiquitous US chain of warehouse-sized do-it-yourself stores. That, though, is only half of an extraordinary story....
...Asos opened a facility in Atlanta two years ago, although the company still made an operating loss in the US last year....
...Many of the materials that buildings and roads are made from — such as tar and concrete — absorb and retain energy from the sun’s rays, warming their surroundings....
...Not the office, not the home but somewhere in-between: co-working spaces....
...Sir Jony Ive, the former head of design at Apple who has stayed at Claridge’s “four or five times a year” for the past 15 years, told the Financial Times the structural renovation was “unlike anything I...
...“They have the land, the straw, the farming co-ops and the political framework. People see what straw buildings are like and want to live in them....
...Companies are urging their investors to think long term and to consider structural changes that will justify increased capacity....
...However, tight fiscal constraints made it difficult at times for some governments to co-finance projects benefiting from EU structural funds and to maintain a decent level of expenditure on public investments...
...Nikkei Asia looks here at how the story of Indonesia’s coal dependence highlights a structural block to change in climate policies in Asia....
...The prices of key materials, such as timber, steel and concrete, are up by 60-80 per cent in the year to July, according to figures from the Business Department....
...Reeves won a seat on the Imperial condo board in 2010, and was part of a co-ordinated slate of officers elected in March 2018....
...We are something special because we are together, pushing each other and co-operating.”...
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