Parent Middleby was desperately selling everything from refrigerators and slicers to, naturally, kitchen sinks.

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Others were held in private homes, where dental students stood over kitchen sinks in denture-making lessons.

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For one thing, the housing market was booming in 2004 and 2005, so the company was focused on developing new types of kitchen sinks.

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The housing units are packed to their custom crown molding with high-style kitchen appliances, elegant- looking bathroom sinks and enough marble to renovate the Taj Mahal.

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So there are two sinks on the blue and pink kitchen island in the middle of the large, square room.

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Gourmet-cooking empty nesters found themselves gushing over kitchen islands topped with gleaming granite and decorated with state-of-the art cook tops and vegetable sinks.

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