Smartly produced pages, and things on screens, impress us with an authority that springs from the resources needed to produce them in the old paper medium.
But the custom developed of just using the paper receipts as the medium of exchange, with few if any showing up to demand the actual gold.
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Star Toilet Paper is a company that uses toilet paper as an innovative advertising medium to help companies reach an unmatched captive audience and then provides this product for free to large venues.
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In his paper-tube buildings and accompanying sparse paper-tube furniture, the medium has attained the utmost sculptural simplicity and refinement.
He announced a range of new finance and insurance products as part of a Trade and Investment White Paper aimed at helping small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to export more goods overseas.
Newspapers, Mr Murdoch implies, must learn to understand their role as providers of news independent of the old medium of distribution, the paper.
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Prof Lyman said he was surprised that paper was still proving popular as a storage medium but put its resilience down to the fact that a lot of the information generated on computer was printed out.
Since 1986, he has made a thorough study of paper-tube technology and has been struck by the medium's cheapness, strength and adaptability.
"Japanese traditional houses have paper screens with mica paint which is a very subtle medium, giving a shiny appearance to recreate the pattern of the water, " she said.
In fact, in the short to medium term, there is little in the white paper that is going to have a significant impact on motorists.
You could use whatever medium works best for you a pad of paper, a smartphone, a PC, etc.
He'd provide an Internet marketplace where small and medium-size businesses could buy routine supplies, from paper clips to fluorescent lighting fixtures.
Ink and paper (or parchment or papyrus) have functioned brilliantly as a presentation and storage medium for a couple of thousand years.
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