The significance and high status of the manuscript can be seen by the gorgeous and costly materials used in its execution.

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So automakers are turning to lightweight but costly materials like aluminum, magnesium, carbon fiber and new kinds of steel to help reach the government's targets.

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To his surprise, they wanted him to go even further, requesting more costly sustainable materials.

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The sector is heavily dependent on costly imports of the raw materials used in producing fertilizer, and Lula wanted to cut farmers costs, and thus allow for space to reduce subsidies, by getting Vale to dig and produce potassium at sites it has leased from the government, but has not yet produced much of anything.

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Keynesians always overestimated the Soviet Union's GDP because their tools couldn't distinguish the value of overly costly steel from cheaper, lighter materials such as plastics--Soviet-made refrigerators weighed almost twice as much as their U.S. counterparts.

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The lightest ultrastrong automotive materials, carbon-fiber composites, looked too costly for cars until a Rocky Mountain Institute spinoff commercialized an automated manufacturing process that makes complex composite parts in less than a minute.

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It also increases the use of costly carbon-fiber body panels (the hood and roof) and other composite materials, to save weight.

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Costly land and labour values have forced many perfume makers to move to major cities and increase the use of synthetic materials, said Virginia Bonofiglio, associate chairperson of cosmetics and fragrance marketing at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

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