Here are some ideas: Mining companies could help combat poverty by giving away a percentage of what they extract to local indigenous people.
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Meanwhile, the US Forest Service has been deriving cellulose nanocrystals from wood pulp extract to create a material that's stronger than Kevlar and carbon fiber.
Builders dug deep underground to extract limestone to build Paris above ground.
They also argue, rightly, that the volumes of oil involved would probably be too small, and too expensive to extract, to make much difference to the price.
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The credit boom was created by initially low adjustable rate mortgages, interest-only or negative amortization loans, and an appreciating real estate market that allowed homeowners to extract equity to help make mortgage payments.
He added that virtual intruders have previously tried to extract files related to missile tracking systems and the Joint Strike Fighter.
Being able to mine massive amounts of historical data from the social web to extract metrics relating to activity, sentiment and anomaly identification provides financial firms with ample opportunity to isolate valid trading signal within processed social data.
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The Norwegians send teams out on to the floating ice to drill holes into it and extract cores to determine the ice's origin.
The Republicans continue to use every opportunity to extract concessions by threatening to wreck the economy ... again.
Metatags will make it easier to extract information from a page to suit a particular use, or the limitations of a particular device.
In the 1920s, German chemist Fritz Haber, a Nobel Prize winner, thought it possible to extract enough gold from oceans to pay his country's debt after World War I.
The company reckons it could extract up to 430, 000 barrels of bitumen each day from its 195 million barrel proven reserves in Alberta.
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The tight coupling of presentation and information has made it difficult to extract the underlying information and adapt to changing internal and external needs.
Chinese firms now are attempting to negotiate partnerships with FTS International, a Fort Worth, Texas, company that specializes in hydraulic fracturing, a process used to extract energy from shale, according to one person familiar with the matter.
For example, if your business infrastructure requires XML or JSON data formats, or an API to extract office data and transmit it to the field, then make sure you inquire with the mobile App vendor to see what they can offer.
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Data science is the spry third generation of BPR, responding to vastly increasing IT capacity, unprecedented ability of businesses to create data, widespread realization that data is a valuable resource, and the burdensome need to extract data from storage in order to realize business value.
To define this business more precisely, it consists of using sophisticated distillation methods to extract money from taxpayers and hand it to Archer Daniels Midland.
That requires moving from coercive or motivational leadership that uses sticks or carrots to extract performance and allegiance out of people to inspirational leadership that inspires commitment and innovation and hope in people.
Even quite sensible Russian politicians fear that the West's interest is to keep Russia as a place to extract minerals from and sell consumer goods to, rather than helping it become an industrial or agricultural power.
But as Britain's hydrocarbon reserves shrink, and the government frets about attracting investment to extract those that remain, enticing firms to the waters west of the Shetlands will be key to easing the industry's decline.
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It has been difficult to extract the Guardian without causing further damage to the reef, but the U.S. Navy and SMIT salvage team with support from other companies and the government of the Philippines have really done a superb job.
Scientists hope to extract a DNA profile that could be used to study the development of plague since then.
In particular, it may seek to extract massive additional economic and technological assistance primarily to maintain an otherwise unsustainable military capability.
Syrup is big business in Maine between late February and mid-April, when conditions are just right for sugar makers to extract sap from maples and boil it down to syrup over wood fires.
Athough 10% interest may be the correct commercial price to extract from banks, it will do nothing to enlarge their profit margins or provide banks with the resources to provide additional loans to households and businesses.
But currently Apple has huge market power as we can see from that greater subsidy they are able to extract (sure, the subsidy is directly to the consumer but the effect is that Apple can charge more for its hardware) number there.
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Plans to extract natural gas from the ground near Bristol are to be delayed, the BBC has learned.
In other word we have to extract the lie from the interest rate in order to get it back to telling the truth.
The regulator says it was not its job to extract the maximum price for the Treasury, but to secure the best possible outcome for consumers.
Broadcasters are frequently in battles with cable and satellite operators, looking to extract monthly fees from the cable and satellite operators to carry their channels.
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