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2009
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floor lamp
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a tall lamp designed to stand on the floor.
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Lamps light a path to $7.35 billion in sales.(Special report: lamps & lighting)
Magazine article from: Home Accents Today; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...access. Small accent lamps are consumers' most popular lamp choice in the home...fourth of all table lamp purchases priced $75 or more. Table lamps are sold as pairs...ahead before buying a lamp. In fact, only 18% to 26% of lamps are bought on impulse...
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Lamps and fans in the spotlight. (1996 National Hardware Show in Chicago, Illinois)
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network; 8/12/1996; 700+ words
; ...Cheyenne Lamps will feature fringed-shade and cast-base Victorian lamp styles, reproduction Tiffany lamps and steel-and-iron lamp sets, in addition to some new touch lamps. Additionally, new upscale, solid-brass floor lamps and table...
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Electric lamp industry growing fast.(INDUSTRY)
Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter; 10/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...country, demand for CFE lamps grew, prompting lamp producers to start producing CFE lamps for urban people. CFE lamps...association of electric lamp industry (Aperlindo) said smuggling of electric lamps into the country is rampant...
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LAMPS CAN MAKE A ROOM.(AT HOME)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH); 8/24/1996; 700+ words
; ...illumination. Table lamps or, as it's known...the perfect table lamp that complements your...useful accessory for lamps where it is hard to...label adhered to your lamp to use the proper...bulb can cause your lamp to overheat and malfunction...of a fire. Table lamps enhance the ...
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Lamps back in fashion; department stores replay the business, for its style.(includes related article on store displays)
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network; 3/3/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...encouraging them to show lamps in two places," she said. "The lamp gallery is a great...consumers shop for lamps in two ways. A lamp is often an add...and so head to the lamp gallery. At Dayton...Marshall Field's, lamps are merchandised by...
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LAMPS PLUS Voted 'Best Of The Web' for 2003; Internet Retailer Honors LAMPSPLUS.com's Innovative Approach to Online Retailing.
PR Newswire; 12/2/2003; 700+ words
; ...match table & floor lamp' applications -- the...applications planned by LAMPS PLUS. Swanson continued...throughout the year. About LAMPS PLUS Established in 1974, LAMPS PLUS is the nation...Southern California, LAMP PLUS comprises over 40...
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Lamps move upscale.
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network; 5/8/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...amp; Co., a new Jimco Lamp division, had its own...several new executive desk lamps with more ornate castings...hydrocal table and floor lamps manufactured in its Mexican...prototype contemporary desk lamp with touch feature...painted porcelain accent lamps, featuring green and...
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Table lamps still sit atop best-seller list. (Lamps).(findings of the 2002 Retail Survey)(Panel Discussion)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Home Accents Today; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...retail failures, lamp sales remain strong...popularity of portable lamps are fashion and value...Uttermost Company into the lamp market in April...variety of designer lamps at medium price points...than 100 vendors' lamp and lighting sales...Accents Today's 2001 Lamps and Lighting ...
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Reportlinker Adds US Lamps Market.
PR Newswire; 10/1/2009; 700+ words
; ...than the incandescent lamps they will replace...serious threat to future lamp demand. Although...vehicles, as halogen lamps find widespread use...remain leading US lamp markets Buildings...Fixtures 77 Other Lamp Characteristics 79...Diodes 80 IV. FILAMENT LAMPS 83 General 83 ...
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Lamps light the way to decorating chic
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 6/29/1997; ; 613 words
; ...fixture will never do." So lamps in Early American brass...against type by choosing a lamp that contrasts with the...modern room. "An unusual lamp adds greatly to a room...rooms with modern Tizio lamps in them." The black metal Tizio table lamp, with its adjustable...
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lamp
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pioneers was a spouted saucer lamp with a lid. Lamps were smoky because the...also introduced the glass lamp chimney. One- and two-burner lamps were common from the late...superseded other oils for lamps; the kerosene lamp is still used for lighting...
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Arc lamp
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...is a commonly used arc lamp that is a type of mercury arc lamp whose bulb has been coated...bulb was invented, arc lamps had given birth to the...x2013; 1929) arc lamp, which used magnets...operate multiple arc lamps from a single dynamo...
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Lamps, Magic
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Lamps, Magic Stories of magic lamps are of great antiquity...43 B.C.E.), had a lamp that burned for over 1...with an ever-burning lamp, together with magical...bells, more ever-burning lamps, and "artificial songs...
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Lamp, Incandescent
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...the basic features of lamps commonly in use today. The first carbon lamp was inefficient in comparison with present-day lamps, giving only 1.7...wire tungsten filament lamp shortly superseded all other forms. All lamps up to this time operated...
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Lava Lamp
Book article from: How Products Are Made
...key to successful lava lamp design is the selection...composition used in lava lamps is a proprietary secret...selection does not change from lamp to lamp, there are design changes to be considered because lamps are available in different...
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