Piles and piles of plastic bottles, bags, Styrofoam, packaging material and other household trash can be seen as a permanent fixture.
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She spends most of her workday in her living room, which is filled with colorful collections fresh flower arrangements, vintage cookie jars, gnomes, Russian nesting dolls, crochet-covered exercise balls and piles of Technicolor crocheted afghans, all of which serve as inspirations for the bright color mixtures in her art.
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Rows of eyeglasses and sunglasses blanket the coffee table, piles of suspenders and ties fill chairs, a shoe store's worth of wingtips and loafers and boots line the wall.
Neighbors said they stepped outside and saw only clouds of dust and piles of debris where the house stood moments earlier.
Korea's, meanwhile, dates back 8-9, 000 years - the oldest documented anywhere on the planet - with ancient rock art showing the unmistakeable coming together of harpoon and whale, and piles of bones testifying to their consumption.
Standing among bales of crushed plastic bottles and piles of books waiting to be recycled, Lau says that one kilogram of waste paper would have gotten about 18 cents this time last year.
In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, piles of bricks and mounds of weed-ridden soil at a halted project attest to Wal-Mart's hurdles and frustrated plans.
It's able to navigate through 18 inches of water, crawl over boulders and rubble piles, and move in ahead of rescuers to evaluate precarious environments and help plan operations.
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But it's pretty easy to get swept up in the post-victory emotion and the piles of ticker tape, and believe that a championship party shows a city at its best.
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What can be said with very little doubt is that, once this cluster of cold winters has finished, we will have another lengthy run of mild and rainy ones, and if we spend piles of cash on snowploughs and de-icing equipment, we may come to regret it.
And those banks hold piles of Greek and other European government bonds, exposing them to large potential losses if the European sovereign-debt crisis takes a turn for the worse.
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The low interest rates, the easy money led to property booms, speculation, and piles of debt.
One Aldbourne resident, Michael Cowan, said the smell and piles of toilet paper from the drains were "revolting".
With declining attendance and piles of debt now forcing a moneyball approach, the club and its fans have a re-set.
Experts and manufacturers agree that pillows, blankets, comforters and piles of stuffed animals shouldn't be placed in cribs with children under 12 months of age.
After peaking in early 2011, prices of residential property in cities across China have fallen, leaving developers burdened by unsold inventory and piles of debt.
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The room is in poor condition: peeling paint, crowded work spaces, electrical wires messily hung on the walls and piles of unorganized fabrics, make the small space feel even smaller.
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Atop a bluff and offering nose-bleed views of the major highway for gray whales -- aka the Pacific Ocean -- is this Cape Cod-style seaside estate from 1901, with slatted ceilings, vintage photographs, and piles of firewood near the basement.
You might have read over Thanksgiving weekend a piece by friend-of-the-blogger Martha Irvine of The Associated Press, who wrote about the continually recession-proof industry of youth sports, an economic engine that shows no sign of burning out thanks to ever-more parents throwing bigger and bigger piles of money into stove to stoke its fire.
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It is 3am, a member of your team just ate the last slice of pizza, the copy of your profile piece in TechCrunch and Business Insider is buried under piles of paper, your computer crashed, and your demo is tomorrow.
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The portions at Mother's are huge: great, skinny mounds of buttered grits, piles of crispy bacon, and big slabs of ham with sweetly caramelized skin.
We dodged barricades put up by residents to discourage looters and around piles of bricks from homes newly damaged from aftershocks.
And yet, despite Mr Mack's virtues and the piles of recent laudatory articles, it is not altogether apparent that he is the man for the job.
Over several hours of testimony an executive from Ohio's Department of Agriculture recounted a 2004 visit to Ohio Fresh Eggs, the nation's seventh-largest producer, where he saw hens afflicted with diarrhea and giant piles of wet manure, a breeding ground for maggots.
Bars of olive-oil soap share counter space with piles of lokum (Turkish Delight) and slabs of amber-hued honeycomb.
Longtime journalist and Atlantic Yards watchdog Norman Oder, author of the Atlantic Yards Report blog, has used Freedom of Information Act requests and translators to comb through piles of documents.
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Only the giant piles of laundry and beer stains on the carpet remain the same.
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her.
Millions of Americans are already in despair, staring at piles of receipts and papers from last year.
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