The Ecole's architectural commissions illustrated this link: private townhouses for doctors, a coal merchant and a brewer, for example, as well as the construction or (re)decoration of a printing works, grain store, furrier's shop, department stores and, significantly, a church and three banks.

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As prices fell, the government bought grain or paid farmers to store it, creating a price floor.

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Those companies, including Palantir, a startup founded in 2004 which specializes in multi-platform data analysis, enabled the Pentagon to store and catalog every grain of data it had on the people it was tracking.

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And after two bumper years, the government says it has enough wheat and rice in store to prevent serious food-grain price inflation.

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The abbey, listed as an ancient monument, includes the Spanish Barn, which was built to store taxes in the form of grain and hay, and also houses an art collection including pieces by William Blake.

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It was a way to store, preserve, and transport their grain.

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And so every fall, I'm off to the store to buy some kind of miso made with some kind of grain that I sincerely hope I'll figure out how to use sometime soon.

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Roe has figured out that most of his customers are desperate for fresh ideas--they've perfected the candy bar and long-grain rice, but they know a good package gives them an edge in the grocery store.

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