Next, Stag went up to La Kalle's old room, on the eighty-first floor, to inspect a hundred-pound antenna-transfer switch that would need to be dismantled, carted down to seventy-nine, and reassembled in time for Carnegie Hall.
Yesterday, the Tate claimed the slides "will be dismantled and melted down; they are to be recycled.
Unlike most jewels from past centuries, which were dismantled and melted down when fashions changed or their owners needed a quick spot of cash, the pieces in the Hoard have improbably survived as singular testaments to life in London at a dynamic point in its history.
Though hundreds, perhaps more, vowed to stay until more reforms were enacted, tents were dismantled, banners taken down and trucks piled with blankets that kept protesters warm over the 18 days of demonstrations that began Jan . 25 the date organizers have given to their revolution.
"All the older power plants that burned Eastern coal have been basically torn down, dismantled, put in mothballs, some of them permanently," said Robert J. Zik, the now-retired former vice president for operations at TECO Coal, a subsidiary of TECO Energy that was sold to another operator last year.
Piece by piece, Bharar has dismantled SAC Capital, taking down individuals and the firm itself.
As Rogers told me when I interviewed her on Built to Sell Radio, she purchased old phone systems and computer monitors for pennies on the dollar and sold them to recyclers who dismantled the technology down to its raw materials and sold off the base metals.
Over the week before Christmas 2006, Guasti and his ex-partner dismantled and tore down their office.
