The old McIlhenny Plantation trash heap is a treasure trove of old TABASCO bottles.

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Every investment asset class goes from the trash heap to the penthouse and then back.

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Thinking this was hugely inefficient, I appropriated an IBM Selectric typewriter that was destined for the trash heap.

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But perhaps there's treasure to be found in the trash heap.

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How much sense does it make to invest millions upon millions of dollars into FEMA travel trailers that are only going to end up on the trash heap in a couple of years?

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' After you've been together as long as we have, you have multiple genuine opportunities to reflect on and celebrate your relationship, then you can safely leave V Day on the trash heap.

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For example, when American soldiers at Camp Taji recently discovered a bomb buried in a trash heap by the side of the road they could have simply blown it up but that would be thinking the old way, says Lt.

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