It's also promoted as a birth-control method and a feminine-hygiene product.
For example, in every state, you need a license to be a barber, a hearing-aid fitter or a pest-control worker.
Control-room operators, in a mock-up of a real off-shore control room, can be trained to deal with a range of tricky situations including explosions, leaks of poisonous gas and oil-well blow-outs, without the risk of so much as a scratch.
You can demonstrate products and you can event conduct two-person interviews on camera because you have a remote-control which also doubles as a microphone.
She acknowledged that other provisions of a gun-control package might have a better chance of passing without the controversial assault weapons ban.
In Illinois, the mayor's money bought four television ads and seven pieces of direct mail that helped ex-legislator Robin Kelly, a gun-control advocate, come from behind.
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Previous attempts to pass a gun-control law have failed, so the government has put a clause in its bill promising that the restrictions on gun sales would only come into effect if approved by a national referendum.
He's rigged up a catapult to his mini-fridge, a tiny elevator to carry the beers activate a doll with a remote control - and voila, a beer-tossing machine.
"As far as real-world applications at this point, it would be more of a quality-control device, " said researcher Christopher Musto, who presented the device this week to the national convention of the American Chemical Society.
Accordingly, we believe the Bush Administration should immediately reconstitute the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB), a senior-level panel that plays a crucial quality-control role for the U.S. intelligence community by reviewing and, where necessary, second-guessing the quality of its judgments.
The bottom-left 4 x 4 pads represent drum sounds (touch the slider to scroll up and down through even more sounds), while the bottom-right quarter of the grid serves as a clip-length control (press and hold the first pad, tap the fourth for a four-bar loop, etc.).
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Rodgers, a star of the 1980s, who is such a snorting-bull control freak that he's become a self-caricature.
NeoTV PRIME comes with a two-sided remote control, featuring a touchpad and directional pad on one side and a full-featured QWERTY keyboard on the other, giving you fast and easy control of all your applications and helping you to effortlessly search across the web, apps and television listings.
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And indeed, Orville flies, thanks to plastic propellers and a remote-control engine stuffed inside his belly.
K. Corral, in Tombstone, Arizona, Winkler explains, had to do with a gun-control law.
The company responded that it had a well-control specialist on the scene in 30 minutes, not 12 hours.
"They're upset to the point where it's like they feel Colorado is being stereotyped as a gun-control state, " DeCarlo said.
Senate Democratic leaders want a gun-control bill to emerge from the Judiciary Committee that could be amended on the Senate floor.
Gusev was arrested, a remote-control antenna was found hidden in his car.
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Based in San Francisco, Leap Motion is a motion-control software and hardware company developing the world's most powerful and sensitive 3-D motion-control and motion-sensing technology.
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He's a gun-control advocate, and he's an expert on gun laws.
After the cut, she applied Ouidad gel and a climate-control product.
And with the UNDCP's help, it has come up with a drug-control master plan focusing on areas such as law enforcement, preventive education and crop substitution.
Now PlayStation has recently launched its answer to the Wii, PlayStation Move, and Microsoft is about to launch a gesture-control system for the Xbox 360 called Kinect.
If 82 Republicans decide to vote with the Democrats against a gun-control bill that he supports, as they did last weekend, then there is little the speaker can do about that, except blame Democrats afterwards.
Lamido Sanusi, a risk-control officer who will take over next January as the head of Nigeria's oldest bank, First Bank, is disappointed that regulators are not tougher in insisting on transparency and disclosure of information.
Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun-control group, said lawmakers should consider expanding the definition of mental illness when it comes to barring individuals from buying guns, and possibly require purchasers to submit references.
Working with 400 school children aged between nine and 11, the team assigned whole classrooms either to perform and note down three kind acts per week or - as a control group - to keep a diary of three locations they visited each week.
Also included in the gaming suite is a dual-sided Razer Vespula mouse mat, with one side representing the Autobots with a speed-enhancing surface, the other of the Decepticons with a control-enhancing surface, to showcase your favored allegiance as you annihilate opponents with your preferred style of swiping.
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Although the NRA is ostensibly an organisation seeking to protect the civil rights of its 4m members, critics such as the Violence Policy Centre (VPC), a gun-control group, contend that the level of funding from firearms manufacturers makes it, in effect, just a trade association for the gun industry.
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