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CommentPrice, value and Vincent van Gogh
It鈥檚 sad but true that the way we define the worth of people, professions and companies has nothing to do with the value of what they actually do, says Chris Wise
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Hard facts
With regard to your article 鈥淢Ps: Ban import of child-labour stone鈥� (12 February, page 14), I would like to draw your attention to the Stone Federation鈥檚 document, Selecting the Correct Stone, which is to be published shortly.
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eBest practice
Your article, 鈥淐ontractors attack rise of eBay tendering鈥� (26 February, page 15), is wholly unfair and quite inaccurate
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CommentThe real cost of regulation
According to the government, providing homebuyers with a plentiful supply of new homes has been an important goal for most of the past decade
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CommentContracts at the OK corral: Conflicting terms
If contract terms don鈥檛 amount to anything more than a succession of conflicting proposals, expect a legal showdown. What matters then is who fires the final shot 鈥�
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CommentYellow card
Regarding your feature on the South African World Cup venues (12 February, page 38), we have been involved with the new Peter Mokaba stadium in Polokwane since our team won the commission in June 2006
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Comment星空传媒 buys a pint 鈥� for Provelio
鈥淟ook, it鈥檚 perfectly simple. I want a caipirinha mule, a sherry martini, a cabernet merlot and one of those Polish beers. A Zweibacker, I think.鈥�
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CommentMan behaving badly
As an avid reader of 星空传媒, I must register my disappointment at seeing the increased use of swear words in print
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CommentAvoiding disputes: Fancy a game of battleships?
Every contract tells you to issue a notice when something is going wrong. But that launches warships 鈥� and makes it virtually certain that something will go wrong
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CommentAmanda Levete: What Japan can teach us
Or, as the atlases have it, Japan: a country that endlessly contradicts itself, but does so with such artistry that it hardly matters. But what can it teach us
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CommentSchools construction: plenty to fight for
It was difficult to know what kind of atmosphere to expect at this year鈥檚 BSEC.
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Growth eludes construction as economy grows 鈥搕hat鈥檚 how CIPS sees it
The latest set of figures from the buyers鈥� body CIPS shows that construction remains mired in recession and the general pattern painted by the numbers provides little scope for optimism.The level of incoming orders fell for the third month in a row, says the report. And this will be from ...
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Surfing building.co.uk
From today, in order to continue to invest in the high quality of journalism that you have come to expect, we are restricting access to online content to magazine subscribers only 鈥� or those of you who elect to take out online-only subscription
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Ice Ice Baby 鈥� Heavy Snow Returns to Scotland
Safety in the Snow- Essential guidance for employers, employees and those with responsibility for health and safety.After what has seemed to be the longest, coldest, snowiest winter on record; extreme weather is still causing problems all over Scotland. Roads are closed, houses are still without power and the everyday dangers ...
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Prepare for a double dip in construction growth 鈥� the implication of today鈥檚 GDP figures
The UK is coming out faster from recession than we thought. But the hole was deeper.That seems to be the message from the statisticians鈥� latest stab at the nation鈥檚 output.The increase in fourth quarter GPD was revised upward from 0.1% to 0.3%, which will cheer many not least the Chancellor.But ...
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CommentWrong time for an overhaul
Over the past few decades our system for regulating the supply of land and what can or cannot be built on it has become labyrinthine
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Offering the world
While I read with interest your interview with Mr Shapps, the shadow housing minister (5 February, page 28), your choice of headline was unfortunate for a professional journal
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Mangled by the machinery: notice provisions
Generally speaking, the courts are understanding if a party makes a smallish mistake with its notice provisions. But don鈥檛 rely on it
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Greg Verhoef: Get workers to think for themselves
If you want workers to be safe on site, you have to get them to think for themselves. So, we need less bureaucracy and more reliance on our natural sense of danger, says Greg Verhoef