Word: tiling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...office also serves as a clearing house for legal information that international students need, including lists of visa restrictions and instruction on how to tile American tax forms...
...portfolio. Also unsold is Chaumet, a world-famous French jeweler, which has racked up millions of dollars in losses. Other flops include the Carvel ice-cream chain and New York Department Stores of Puerto Rico, disposed of last year at a substantial loss. A huge disappointment has been Color Tile, America's largest chain of floor-covering stores. The company lost $46.3 million last year and was close to bankruptcy until Investcorp and other investors pumped in $30 million in August. Kirdar acknowledges that many deals have not worked out as hoped, but cites the bank's willingness to work...
Gillis must make a choice: one direction leads to ignominy and independence; the other leads to the tile floors of the palazzo where Valentino tangoed. With each step, Joe becomes more deeply mired...
...being dismantled not by foreign investors but by Vietnamese entrepreneurs. Established hundreds of years ago by craftsmen who moved to the banks of the Red River to be near the markets of the capital, Hanoi's ``36 streets'' district was once home to 60 temples, shaded by the red-tile roofs of old shop-front ``tube houses''--so called because many, as deep as 50 m, are only 2 m to 3 m wide. Now the neighborhood is becoming dominated by boutiques, bars and ``mini- hotels'' of cheap cement and glass. ``The ancient city is being destroyed,'' says Mayor Hoang...
...real earthquake, the most deadly since 1923, roared through the Kobe area, something happened to the little rooms that never happens in the simulator machines. Their roofs fell in. By the tens of thousands. Where each house stood, there is now just a brown or blue blanket of tile, settled almost gently over a wreckage of wood, plaster and human bodies...