As long as the base piece is solid wood or plywood, the only drawback to veneer is that it limits the number of times an item can be refinished.

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Like other wholesalers, Christian earns a modest base but gets a small piece of the assets she brings in.

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With a wave of the legislative wand, the Dutch government has transformed Camp Zeist, a former American air base, into a little piece of Scotland for the duration of the trial.

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Each piece starts with a flat wooden base and a core of hand-sculpted Styrofoam.

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After the piece was published last July, an officer at his base in Afghanistan passed around copies for people to read not knowing that the author was among them.

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For their wedding gift, he created a piece of art: two small globes on a black plastic base torqued in so they appear to be kissing.

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Codon recently shipped the biggest piece of DNA ever made, a hunk of 35, 000 base pairs, big enough to hold ten genes, to Cambridge biotech Microbia.

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