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Likewise, just a hundred years ago, the average American family spent six hours each week during cold months shoveling six tons of coal into the furnace (not to mention cleaning the coal dust from carpets, furniture, curtains, and bedclothes).
To see why, consider potential imports from the US, most of which are likely to be brand-name products, furniture, high-end cars, and land-intensive agricultural products (such as beef).
In the past, when discretionary spending on items such as motor vehicles, furniture, appliances, and travel was deferred, a surge of “pent-up demand” quickly followed.
But, unlike allowing individuals to offer their furniture to the whole world, crowdfunding is supposed to raise money fast, from those in the know, for businesses that bankers might not understand.
Between 2002 and 2006, Brazil’s SME support services and the Milan Chamber of Commerce created partnerships involving furniture, shoes, designer lingerie, and handicrafts from different regions of the country.
Every season, he breaks at least one piece of furniture when his team loses.
She has changed her furniture at least twice since she got married four years ago.
Given their seemingly boundless benefits, it is unsurprising that plastics have replaced traditional materials in many sectors – for example, steel in cars, paper and glass in packaging, and wood in furniture.
Some of the state assemblies in India’s federal system have already witnessed scenes of furniture upended, microphones ripped out, and slippers flung by unruly legislators, not to mention fistfights and garments torn in scuffles.
Foshan is also home to the world’s largest wholesale lighting and furniture markets, and its products are exported internationally.
It also included the development of skills and capacity in specialized sectors, creating the world’s largest lighting and furniture markets in the world.
By contrast, a traditional development economist would argue that it should not export wood; instead, it should add value by transforming the wood into paper or furniture – something that Finland also does.
It is true that there is plenty to condemn: Suleman’s family lives on food stamps, the children already at home don’t have enough baby furniture, and her own parents are giving interviews to the media in which they criticize her choices.
His family is poor, and his parents have already sold almost all their furniture to pay for food and schooling for their children.
To a greater extent than most people realize, the paper we write on, the water that comes out of our taps, the medicine that heals us, the wood that builds our houses and furniture, all originate from forests.
Vietnam has also become a major exporter of clothes, shoes, and furniture.
Such firms have enabled Italy to move beyond the “three Fs” – food, fashion, and furniture – to cutting-edge sectors like biopharma, mechatronics, and aerospace.
Over time, we will be able to figure out which people, based on their genotype, will be helped or harmed by a particular drug, or how children can learn best with personalized feedback, or how to produce furniture and clothing in a world of 3D printers and real-time modeling.
Worse, there are images of foreclosures, of families being evicted from their homes, their furniture and belongings on the street.
Some of the state assemblies in India’s federal system have already witnessed scenes of unruly legislators fighting, overturning furniture, ripping out microphones, and flinging slippers.
Others will have to export furniture or textiles.
Superstition can also influence the selection of the minister’s office, housing, and furniture, guided (if not actually directed) by gurus and pandits on the basis of time-honored, if scientifically unproven, principles.
You enter through a side door, into a cavern full of sawdust and cheap furniture (plus a pool table and a bar, of course).
In this regard, his background as a furniture manufacturer and exporter is a major asset, enabling him to bring a level of hands-on knowledge and experience that past Indonesian presidents have lacked.
Even so, with its cheaper labor force and faster technological growth, China has attained higher export competitiveness than Latin America, several of which it has displaced in key sectors, such as thread and dry goods manufacturing, electronics, and furniture, since 2000.
As for the rewards, they could be everything from discounts on energy-saving appliances and posture-enhancing furniture to vouchers from suppliers of “healthy” foods.
What the ICIJ has done is provide detailed and irrefutable evidence that almost 350 multinational corporations, including the Swedish furniture giant IKEA and America’s global delivery service FedEx, have been benefiting from Luxembourg’s dubious tax rulings.
The rebound has been concentrated in goods consumption – big-ticket durables like cars, furniture, and appliances, plus soft-good nondurables like food, clothing, fuel, and pharmaceuticals that have more than made up for what was lost during the lockdown-induced plunge.
For example, in 1886, 10% of all furniture was produced in prisons, though most employed convicts produced clothes and shoes.
In Colorado, for example, state agencies must purchase certain goods, such as office furniture, from the state’s correctional industries, a requirement that puts firms without access to convict labor at a distinct disadvantage.
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