When you look at major parts of the economy like technology, health care, basic industries, energy and even raw materials producers of copper, iron ore and chemicals, you find them flooded with cash.
Outfitted with tables, chairs, umbrellas, and even reading materials, the area on the western edge of Bryant Park offers a respite from the traffic tumult along 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue.
Umasi, a collection of work by artist Wells Mason, blurs the line between sculpture and furniture, with man-made materials such as stainless steel and tempered glass colliding with organic (exquisitely finished woods) and even obviously salvaged materials (a telephone pole, recycled rubber, bicycle parts).
Range Rover has moved the needle to yet richer and more exclusive materials and design, even as it has simplified the cabin and cockpit environment.
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Local governments often lack the resources to provide the promised training, or even tools and materials.
Like the 1970s, Tillman sees this decade as one in which financial assets become less valuable than hard assets such as real estate, metals, raw materials and even collectibles.
In the 1970s Lamb and Casey's founder, Donald Lamberti, started hiring their own superintendents to look over the shoulders of the contractors building their stores and even bought the construction materials, a practice that continues today.
Planes, jeeps and even donkeys have been used to get millions of books and teaching materials to the schools that are still open.
And even though steel and concrete are still the most cost-effective materials, new combinations of these substances provide greater strength and fire retardance, says W. Gene Corley, senior vice president at Construction Technology Laboratories in Skokie, Ill.
Hydraulic fracturing involves the injection of fluid consisting of approximately 99.5% water and sand (the rest consists of common industrial or even household chemicals or materials) through wells constructed with protective casing and cement, into producing shale formations.
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That beats out other ETFs that track banking, materials, clean energy and even Brazil.
That's because even though designers have new materials and technologies, they still have to solve the same problems that astronauts face whenever they leave the safety of a spacecraft.
Easy enough to do with your marketing materials, your web site and even your blogs, but if all else looks great and you show up for an appointment looking as if you put little thought into your appearance, all your marketing efforts might appear to be a bait-and-switch to a would-be lucrative prospect.
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Doing so requires development of countless shapes and sizes of packages, high-performance materials, new graphic capabilities, convenience features and package formats in even shorter production cycles.
"It's a weirdly Earth-like place, even with this exotic combination of materials and temperatures, " Perron said.
There they were exposed to bacteria which now had the job of breaking the sugar into succinic acid, a colorless, odorless substance that is heavily used in the food industry as a sweetener but can also be used in the production of a wide variety of materials, including medicines, bioplastics and even laundry detergent.
Even better, instead of expensive cooling systems and specialized materials, the cone simply spins.
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In fact levels are known to vary widely within even small areas, depending on weather patterns and building materials.
With only two washing facilities in the country and no domestic supply of fabrics, trims or even packaging materials, long lead times are required.
Bo can be found in nearly every room, from small ornaments to life-size topiaries made from everyday materials like felt, buttons, candy and even trash bags!
How do they transition hundreds or even thousands of educators and courses from legacy teaching methods and materials?
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The bullish argument has it that the Chinese will find materials cheaper, even if only marginally, and will hence buy more of them: no more substituting plastic tubes for copper ones.
Often, though, their lack of capital means they are unable to teach a broad curriculum, are short of books and other materials, and are stuck in unsuitable (or even dangerous) buildings.
But on the highway from Mumbai to Pune, the new cars zoom past wooden carts filled with construction materials and pulled by ponies, camels, elephants or even people.
Since the robocasting machine allows the researchers to manipulate several inks at once, they are able to make new kinds of composite materials this way interlacing the filigrees, and even leaving holes in the material if that helps to arrive at the desired properties.
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High color brightness also enables an even better image for larger screen sizes and on a larger variety of screen materials.
Oh, and they decided to build the airplane out of plastic along with other novel materials and technologies, so it would have been a big experiment even if Boeing approached manufacturing like it always had.
You begin to think like nature, in terms of building blocks that are fashioned into what I call sustainable materials platforms that can be used flexibly by many different products, and even by different companies.
Longer stoppages would be even more expensive, as more and more parts of the economy were touched by a shortage of materials.
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It's manifested in the progress we've made on nuclear security and nonproliferation through the New START Treaty and our efforts to lock down nuclear materials together, and it's manifested, frankly, in the fact that, even as we speak now, the Russians are hosting the P5-plus-1 talks in Moscow aimed at getting Iran to live up to their international obligations.
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