He acted out and would howl for hours until he saw people come in front of his glass container.

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Among his first purchases: a glass container holding a cow's rotting head, with maggots and flies, by a recent art school graduate named Damien Hirst.

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Another strong buy from Marketocracy is an Ohio-based, metal and glass container company that specializes in containers for soft drinks, wine, beer, tea, juice and pharmaceuticals.

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Place in a nonreactive container (glass or stainless steel) and let stand on the counter overnight.

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The Holiday Inn Shanghai branch said it gathered input from various architects and even aerospace experts while constructing this sky-high glass-bottomed water container to ensure its safety.

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How's this for clumsy goods handling: Warehouse managers can't decide in advance how to allocate storage space or assign labor to unpack and store shipments because, in some situations, until a container is unsealed, no one knows whether it contains glass ornaments or dining room tables (the containers aren't marked).

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