About half-way down it had a circular platform, like the brim of a hat, set with small propellers.
This is the way to make money in the auto business: lots of high-priced vehicles off a common platform, which holds down costs.
Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's Apple program, argues that the Unix core at the center of the Mac OS operating system makes it easier to lock down a Mac than a Windows platform.
When that frustration hit a boiling point last fall, he stopped down and thought through exactly what it would look like if a blogging platform looked and felt the way that he wanted to write, the way he wanted to create.
With its N-Gage wireless gaming platform, Nokia throws down a challenge to Nintendo's Game Boy.
Perched on a platform alongside a vat, looking straight down into a swirling and painfully red liquid, Landrey explains to Montagne the process of creating TABASCO.
The majority of the Replicator's internal space is wide open, save for a build platform that can be adjusted up and down by turning a threaded screw and the gantry atop the space that houses the Stepstruder MK8, whose front is monopolized by a large pair of fans.
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In 2006, the company successfully placed a platform 1.5 km in the air, and were able to send robots up and down from the platform on tethers.
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On the platform, researchers push pieces of fish down a pipe that goes right to the bottom of the water.
The extruders, naturally, melt the plastic down, while the heat from the platform plays a role in keeping the object in place as it's printed -- or, more precisely, the lattice work foundation that object is built on top of.
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Trinh-Duc's unforced knock-on gave Wales the first attacking platform after the break and a Martyn Williams charge down posed more danger for the hosts only for Gatland's men to be penalised a few metres short for diving in at the ruck.
The annual college basketball tournament offers the Tiffany network a three-week platform to reach the otherwise hard to pin down young male viewer, who is prized by advertisers.
The unboxing process involves a lot of tiny compartments and several instances of moving the platform up and down to remove hidden cardboard boxes and plastic bags full of bolts, wrenches and the like.
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As each eastbound train arrived at the front of the platform at Exchange Place last week, a PATH worker, Raishea Haines wrote down the number of the lead car.
To extract Malampaya's gas, Shell will put down nine undersea wells - five in 2002 and four in 2009 - plus a production platform being built in Singapore and Subic.
Outside those who have a clear philosophical platform for eschewing meat, there are increasing numbers of these people, either cutting down on meat or trying not to eat it where possible, but without necessarily ever calling themselves "vegetarian".
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