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Problems can be handled in a few different ways, including wood piles to support the school or trucking in compacted fill, which is a combination of sand or stone to support the structure. We chose wood piles to support the school,

People relate to wood in ways that they don't to other materials. It feels real and natural, unlike plastic and steel. It feels like you really can make something out of it, rather than just put something together.

People around here think we're mostly a wood company. But economically, we're a plastic company. We buy more plastic, in dollars, than we do wood.

People don't want to be held hostage by the fuel companies, and in an emergency situation, if all else fails, they could find a piece of wood to heat the house.

Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

The mulch that is sold at Lowe's comes from known sources, not storm wood or blown down timber.

The one thing he hadn't shown yet was the ability to hit for power. I felt that he would hit for power here, because the league he was in is kind of a pitcher's league, with wood bats and big ballparks.

Coach Wood just kept telling us we needed one more stop. We didn't play as well as we wanted, but we played with heart, and that bailed us out.

A property that is pet-friendly is usually on the ground floor, not on a busy street, and perhaps with a good fenced yard. If you are planning on buying a pet-friendly property, it is a good idea to have wood floors rather than carpeting.

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined. We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

The Brittany thing is a lot better than we could have even imagined, ... We could be sitting here right now talking about how the meniscus transplant didn't work as well as we liked and it doesn't look like she will play. That was a possibility. And here we're looking at it and - knock on wood - she hasn't had one incident with that since she started being able to do things. That came out way better than we anticipated.

The British needed a stable, local supply of wood and that was just across the river in Bergen County. Ships were broken up for firewood and it was extremely difficult to get wood from Long Island.

That's what this league is going to be -- whoever chops the most wood at the end of the day is going to win.

That's just a bunch of wood burning. There's no one hurt. There's nothing serious that happened. His insurance will take care of it. Whatever the insurance doesn't take care of, I am sure he has enough money to spend and take care of it himself.

That's how you heated the building in the old days, with wood or coal. That was it.

This is the first time I've taken live BP in 10 years. I'm used to holding a driver or a 3 wood in my hands. ... Baseball is my love, kicking was just something I was good at.

The way the damage was done to the shack it was not due to the wood stove or a candle. It was negligence but we cannot prove it.

This case is 3 1/2, almost 4 years old. Whether it's an intruder or someone in this house who committed this homicide, there's some difficult tough questions that have to be answered, and you know, Mr. Wood wants to pick and choose what gets asked and I'm not going to be part of that.

They took almost the whole interior decor - wood for a bar top, wainscoting and even some of the pews. Someone in St. Augustine wants to put up a crab shop on A1A and they want some of that stuff for a rustic look.

They put the good wood on the ball, tough situations, and I was fortunate enough to get leather on it.

A lot of people don?t know what the wood pellets even look like and they get to see it here. I would say about two thirds of everyone that walks in this building has bought or inquired (about his business).

A lot of people want to build a new home that looks like it's 100 years old. The look of hand-hewn wood and barn wood -- it's hard to duplicate what nature does. It's hard to get an authentic look.

A lot of people now are using the island as an accent piece. It's in the same wood species, but with a different color and a different finish.

They obviously like to have wood fiber at a reasonable rate to build theirhomes, to achieve their dreams in terms of housing. But they also like themultiple use of the Forest Service.

They had a private train car to go to Colorado for their honeymoon. They stayed a little long at their reception. Of course, trains don't wait. The train took off -- and Wood and Wagner got in a car and started chasing the train through Phoenix.

They'd use wood rather than aluminum bats, so you'd get a better idea of what to expect. The first thing a minor-league pro will do to a college hitter is to come inside. The pitchers tried, Troy made the adjustments.

There were points in the game where the momentum could have swung in the other direction. It was the first time the entire team had a fighting, chopping wood attitude the entire game.

There's a lack of southern pine and a couple of harbors were wiped-out of a lot of wood. People are just trying to buy wood and stay out of the way.

They're headquartered very close to our headquarters, their businesses fit very well with ours - big printing papers business, an important wood and timber business - they've got a nice, nice position in Brazil, as well as a position in Canada,

They're seen in the industry as dried-up pieces of wood filled with gasoline.

They're a little heavier than balsa wood and there's very little grain, so it's easier to carve.

There's been no measurable dip in activity. The numbers are high and strong. People still need to travel, so they need to get away from home once in a while. Things are going great guns here on wine trail. It certainly isn't hurting at this point. So knock on as much wood as I can find, so far so good.

There's a real organic quality to it. It comes right down to the fundamentals of wood and steel. A lot of acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, fiddles and steel strings. You're not going to see a lot of drums. You're not going to see huge PA systems.

A bird which eats berries can be caught, but not a bird that eats wood

It's early in the year, and we made some young mistakes. Mike pitched well and we got some good wood on the ball, but we just didn't get the key hit at the right time.

It was the land of the walking wounded -- bloody families in bathing suits, cut by glass and wood and other debris, mourning. Most people lost all of their bags and passports. We were lucky.

It really wasn't that bad. If you fill it, it burns well. Going out and getting the wood is not easy. It can be time-consuming.

I tried to do something as simple as unloading some wood from my truck and the next day I was in a neck brace. I'm not going to put my body through it. My time is up, unfortunately.

It's not humanly possible to have every piece of plastic and scrap of treated wood out of the waste.

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

It just had eyes, ... and I was fortunate enough to get enough wood on it to get it up the middle.

It's a lot of work putting the floors down again. You have to make sure the moisture is just right because if it gets too much moisture, the floor swells. So, you have to make sure that the wood is at a certain moisture level.

It's a long process to get that wood ready for the installation.

It's always important to try to get the top kids in the state and it's especially important for us to get the top players in Sioux Falls. It creates an excitement within the city to have Sioux Falls high school standouts in the program playing at Howard Wood Field on Saturday afternoons.

It's going to divert some key materials. It's going to have an effect on building elsewhere. A lot of the areas that were hit are areas that produce wood products.

It's going to be hard to win without Wood and Prior. We have to do the best things possible with the other pitchers we have. We have a great offense. When those two guys come back, we'll be much better.

It's good for the environment because wood chips are a renewable source of energy. They also cost a lot less than gas.

It's helped us to do a couple of different things. It's helped us initiate talks about developing a child advocacy center in Wood County.

It's good wood if it's dried correctly. They should be able to use it for a lot of things.

Darren Clarke has an 8-wood in his bag because of the availability of being able to get to the green out of the rough when, normally, you couldn't. I think when you see rough as severe as it is here, instead of having to take a wedge and hit it out, you can take a wood and have a chance to get it on the green. To me, that is a player putting another club in his hand trying to take advantage of the situation.

That is it for me. I couldn't watch another person operate a wood chipper.

It's like having calculus first period. You are not real happy when the alarm goes off, but by second period it's already over and you are running off to wood shop.

It's not going to be wood paneling but it is going to be cozy.

Eighty percent of the wood is original, he says. He said it definitely can be restored.

Egyptians even sailed to Lebanon to gather cedar for building their ships. The resin in this wood was thought to prevent damage, but it obviously didn't work very well.

The block of wood should not dictate to the carver

The big difference was Wood being out of the game. It made it tough because Wood has been able to get to the hole and create for others.

It lasted 100 years without any really visible signs of structural damage other than some dry rot and normal wood decay. Everyone is amazed that the building is as strong as it is.

It's detrimental from the standpoint of wood supply inventory,

It was kind of like old times. I'm proud of the way the guys are practicing and the way they're playing so hard. They're bringing the wood and that goes a long way in football.

It was a good win. They have some good kids, Wood River is back at double-A now and they are struggling with their enrollment a little bit. But they have some very good wrestlers in that lineup and they all came out and wrestled hard against us and didn't give us anything.

It's very long for me. I'm driving it into the face of every hill out there (and) had to hit a wood into every (par-4) hole.

It's when you're going through the process of seeing the wood almost coming to life. Then, at the end of the process, with the eyes looking back at you, it's almost like it's coming alive.

It's when you find the sweet spot on the bat. Good wood is when you can feel the ball jump right off the bat. It sounds perfect. Solid.

It's totally different than what the old park was, but better different. It's bigger, better and all wood so it doesn't hurt as much when you fall.

I wanted to put the ball in play and he put good wood on it. It was a sinker. ... He hit it to the right part of the ballpark and the wind was blowing that way.

It was 30 years too late for all of us. Poor Ed Wood died broke. He depended on his friends. It's too bad because he was really a good guy!

It will probably take about $15 million to build a facility. It'll require public-private partnerships, also, because so much of the wood comes from public land.

They were 25 feet wide, 30 feet long, with wooden floors and wood going up the sides about 3 feet.

They were two special leaders. I couldn't ask for a better situation coming in for my first year and having two outstanding leaders both on and off the floor. The kids looked to them as our motivational leaders. They are the nicest girls you can have, but they are extremely hard workers and John Wood picked up two extremely good players.

There still remains a big area that has a lot of overgrown vegetation, the fence is in disrepair and there are barrels and scrap metal and wood on the property.

There was an old wooden shed on the site where the 'garage' was supposed to be, ... It was there when we moved into the house around 1974/75. We used it to store wood and bikes, sleds, etc. My father died in 1994, with no garage ever built.

This is laying the groundwork for distressed debt opportunities. We think it is analogous to the stacking of wood for a bonfire.

A chip on the shoulder indicates that there is wood higher up.

Their pitcher was aware. Wood did a great job there. Most pitchers would catch the ball and start arguing with the umpire. He was very aware. He turned around looked home. He did a great job on that play.

The interior of Reflex is modern, with no wood and leather. The color and materials challenge many of today's dark plastic interiors by offering a blend of warm and cool colors. It is a fresh approach that will inspire future trends in many industries, including fashion and home furnishings.

I knew Brad Wood could play. We try to get him the ball the best we can. He's quick and he's fast, and he can use his speed as a weapon. When he does get the ball, he tends to catch it and make plays.

I let Guerrero get his arms extended, and while that's usually a mistake to any power hitter, it isn't necessarily so to him. He has no strike zone. He'll hit the ball below the zone, the ball away, and he'll cheat inside and put good wood on it. So you choose your poison.

I like him, definitely. My questions would be how his bat translates to wood and will he get drafted high enough to sign?

if need be, take the vice president to the wood shed.

I have not taken a vacation or sick day in nearly 30 years of racing, and with my contract with the Wood Brothers expiring at the end of this race season, it seemed like the perfect time to step back and take a break.

I had already cleaned up my act two years ago now, before my wife was even pregnant. But I suppose that having a baby daughter gives me a reason now to stay off drugs. Everything's going right. So I mean -- touch wood -- we'll get to the end of this, and that will be the last you'll see of us, and everything will be cool.

If you can get ahead of them and use your breaking ball, you can maybe be OK, but they are a good mistake-hitting team. It seemed like every ball we left up in critical situations, they put good wood on it.

In some senses it's similar in that there's a lot of wood around and there's crowded desks, but then when you look up it's a completely different sort of space. It's much more inspirational -- a cathedral type of space.

I really do feel ? knock on wood ? confident that the right decision will be made. What is the right decision? Well, it's different for every kid. But I don't think he'll make a bad decision. I don't think he'll be taking chances. I think he'll have to feel pretty good about himself to make that decision.

I remember picture postcard moments with dad flying a balsa wood plane, sitting in front of him on a motorbike, going to visit Ringo.

I really enjoy racing for the Wood Brothers - they are great people,

In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost

In the mid-1980s, computer-driven technology became very prevalent in the precision machine trade. It had just started to filter out into other career fields like wood working.

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea

I put it on target, but there were a lot of guys back there. I took a look up, and even if I got good wood on it, it was likely to be knocked down before it reached the net.

Be careful of your long dress, ... Make sure you don't get your shirt into the fire. More laundresses of the period died from their clothing catching on fire and cuts from chopping wood for their fires than any other thing.

Can't you see you go public and all these people owning you want is dividends and running their stock up, you don't give them that and they sell you out, you do and some bunch of vice presidents some place you never heard of like the ones that turned this out, this wood product they call it, they spot you and launch an offer and all of a sudden you're working for them trimming and cutting and finally bringing in people to turn something out they don't care what the hell it is, there's no pride in their work because what you've got them turning out nobody could be proud of in the first place.

But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Hopefully, if he can duplicate the Wood Memorial, you'll see what kind of horse he is.

He think that's his most natural position, ... He likes (the middle) the best. His body type you wouldn't draw up for a (middle linebacker), but he lays the wood probably better than any of our linebackers

If he can duplicate his Wood Memorial, you'll see what kind of horse he is.

I don't think the competition is as good. ... If he can duplicate his Wood Memorial, you'll see what kind of horse he is.

He pulled that head cover off, and there was a nasty old fungus. This is a wood driver ... and I was convinced that it had oozed into that driver.

You can take organic materials ? leather, steel, wood and fabrics ? and mix them in the right way.