But now when some of those trucks leave the plant, they're carrying new vacuums with them.
Being the only superpower puts a special responsibility on America to effectively fill deadly vacuums in critical areas.
Finally, freeways create border vacuums with high crime and low economic activity.
Curiosity has many "mouths" to taste test rocks or dust it vacuums up -- really, to analyze them chemically.
The Oreck Corporation makes vacuums in Long Beach, Mississippi, where many of its 600 workers lost everything in the storm.
The company has suffered plenty of setbacks, including increased competition from Dyson vacuums, Hurricane Katrina sacking its plant in Gulfport, Miss.
His hand-held vacuums are outfitted with blazing-fast digital motors, his washing machines (no longer in production) with Formula One race-car bearings.
These predictably will be filled as such "peace dividend"-induced vacuums have in the past: at our expense and to our detriment.
They also manufacture the now famous Roomba that automatically vacuums your home.
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"Partly, this is a consequence of the Arab Spring and the power vacuums and ungoverned spaces that have sprung up in its wake, " it said.
In Venezuela such power vacuums have often been filled by the army.
He summons sumptuous sounds from his battered guitar, and writes brilliant songs when he isn't fixing Hoover vacuums in his father's Dickensian shop.
For a start, says Bernt Aardal, professor of political science at Oslo University, Mr Hagen's party is the one that vacuums up voter discontent.
In the intervening years the design, and variety of designs, of their vacuums has improved and I might be quite happy to own one today.
Ms. Brickman gives a warning before she vacuums or makes popcorn.
Vacuums with HEPA filters prevent dust from escaping as you clean.
But closer examination of the international environment also reveals that leadership vacuums are beginning to emerge on a wide range of critical issues looming on the horizon.
Samsung has unveiled its latest robot, the Tango View, which not only vacuums your floor it also lets you spy on your kids and houseguests.
It is predictable that the resulting power vacuums will be filled as such "peace dividend"-induced vacuums have in the past: at our expense and to our detriment.
Third, the failed states in Africa and the oxymoronic governments in many African nations create serious politico-military vacuums that terrorists groups can fill and exploit for nefarious ends.
Vacuuming tends to stir up allergens without necessarily removing them, and can actually increase the number of airborne allergens, even when newer vacuums containing HEPA filters are used.
And the jihadis will then move into these security vacuums and provide basic services to the people, so hence, the title of his book, The Management of Savagery.
You can buy beautiful blenders, retro washing machines and vacuums that look like objects d'art from the space museum, but AC design has been frozen since the Summer of Sam.
You may have seen Mr. Oreck in TV commercials over the years, comically demonstrating the power of his vacuums by sucking a toupee from his scalp or bowling balls from the floor.
This newfangled approach to insulation, dubbed airgaps, creates vacuums that enable the substantial boost in speed, and the self assembling process is reportedly "already integrated" into IBM's manufacturing line in New York.
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Bottom line: If you are like most folks and live in a home that has things like stairs, beds and corners, these vacuums are not going to replace the tried and true up-right anytime soon.
The United States must be a strong and consistent partner in this process not to force concessions, but to help committed partners avoid stalemate and the kind of vacuums that are filled by violence.
This is the first time in memory that a president has voluntarily eviscerated the armed forces of the United States and redeployed what remains so as to create acute vacuums of power in time of war.
At the same time, al Qaeda is striving to reassert itself in Iraq, exploiting the vacuums of power created by the precipitous withdrawal of American forces from cities and the reopening of smuggling routes from Syria.
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