These two factors--bulging inventory and vertical integration--help explain why Tiffany's net profit margin sits at 9.6% while Graff puts his at 12%.
They would carry short-take-off and vertical-landing versions of the Joint Strike Fighter, stealthy planes that are being developed jointly with America to replace the Harrier jump-jets.
Wire-brushed vertical-grain oak is another Sandy Gallin signature.
Now Allergan, maker of Botox, wants to spread fear of "brow furrow"--age-related vertical lines between the eyebrows--to middle America.
But with his own plane in a near-vertical, nose-down dive, the pilot and his crew had little time to think about the fate of the Chinese pilot.
There's a new Google Apps icon which opens up a tray containing a number of featured services put out by the search giant, and long-pressing the home button brings up a vertical Honeycomb-style multitasking menu.
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Bezos has been funneling money into the Texas firm for years in hopes of developing a vertical take-off, vertical landing rocket.
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Bezos has been funneling money into Blue Origin for years in an attempt to build a successful vertical take-off, vertical landing rocket.
Flavio Radice, the boss of Pietro Carnaghi, a tool maker in Busto Arsizio, north of Milan, says he and his designers regularly use their video-telephone link to pore over plans with customers for the huge vertical-milling machines his firm makes for turbine builders.
The rooftop Insanity puts riders through 3-Gs of terror, the X-Scream is a teeter-totter suspended 866-feet above the sidewalk, and Big Shot is a 4-G vertical catapult that takes riders to 1, 081-feet above the Strip.
The painting was done on six pieces of canvas - five vertical and one horizontal - that were sewn together to reach the desired size.
The massif's two highest peaks, Nelion and Batian, rise to more than 17, 000 feet, with 1, 000-foot-vertical walls leading to their summits and the famous Diamond Couloir in between.
Apotheker says they are already in the private cloud space, and will offer platform-as-a-service, including some vertical market applications.
An early version of a flexible Air Force plane with vertical take-off and landing capabilities.
He now represents several vertical-search companies, such as NexTag, that have complained about Google practices.
Take William Stein, a University of Washington math professor who grew up skating vertical half-pipes in the 1980s.
As a vertical add-on, you can keep discussions and tacit information separate from the repositories of the enterprise applications.
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Now vertical dis-integration is the order of the day in autos, handheld computers, pharmaceuticals, ink-jet printers, health foods, cameras, microchips.
And Lockheed, it seems, has told Boeing to take a running vertical take-off.
Last year came Tonga, which was drilled in 5, 000 feet of water but set a vertical-depth record of 31, 800 feet.
In a continuation of the vertical-integration habit, Indian firms have spent billions buying up coal resources in Australia and Indonesia.
He also wants to build a vertical take-off and landing commercial jet.
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The Tsuur is a vertical pipe-shaped wooden wind instrument with three fingerholes.
Moreover, the LCD displays maintained their natural colors very well when switching from an almost vertical 80-degree orientation to an almost-flat 30 degrees.
Forms remain the heart of what larger pen computers are used for today, and pen computers will always have a home in vertical data-gathering applications.
Currently the best vertical-axis turbines around achieve 39 percent efficiency.
Two months ago, at the Texas State Fair, inventor Paul Moller displayed his Skycar, a vertical takeoff-and-landing craft with a cockpit seating four and four nacelles that house eight rotary engines.
While it's still not possible to walk into your local Chevy dealer and fly out with a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) Camaro that drives through all three dimensions, there are engineers across the world dedicating their lives to making the dream possible.
There was a brief thaw in relations when the Cold War ended, because with the Red Navy gone the U.S. Navy needed to highlight its relevance to fighting ashore, but the more common pattern is for the Navy to constantly question the requirement for Marine assets like vertical-takeoff jets and maritime prepositioning ships (which store warfighting supplies in likely areas of conflict).
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