They also have higher wing loadings, a measure of the ratio between a wing's area and its weight.
In the credit-risk area, the weight attached to mortgages looks likely to drop by 30-50%, cutting the minimum capital requirements of banks specialising in home loans.
It allows for taller masts, bigger hulls and greater sail area for the same weight.
The family of these materials includes much-touted, carbon-based members such as graphene and nanotubes, and are notable in part for their surface area-to-weight ratio.
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Airships demonstrate a law of increasing returns: doubling the length increases the surface area (and hence weight) by a factor of four while the volume (and hence lifting capacity) goes up by a factor of eight.
Last year Vallejo, in California's San Francisco Bay Area, sank into bankruptcy under the weight of its labour costs.
The typical barrel of a high-power rifle has exterior grooves, called flutes, to reduce weight and create more surface area to enable the barrel to cool faster.
Unlike jointly underwritten Eurobonds, the national guarantees backing the EFSF puts each state on the line for only a share of it, broadly in line with its weight in the euro-area economy.
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And in talking with the area manager, Savas was happy to learn that Weight Watchers measured its own success in terms of how well its members did with the program.
But the sheer weight of the Mouse House may make them an impossible foe in the specific area of franchise-related tent pole films.
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The size and weight of the ITV was intentionally limited so that it fits inside the cargo area of the Corps' new V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
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Judge Thornton said however, that in an area blighted by low wages and high property prices, Cornwall Council was entitled to put little weight on a policy which "was not considered fit for purpose any more".
Theory ran afoul of antitrust law in the Carecore case, however, where executives there were accused of refusing to deal with New York-area radiologists who provided upright MRIs, a new system that allows patients to be positioned in weight-bearing posture to see what might be causing them pain.
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The elephant distributes its weight at least over all 4 feet, and even if standing on one leg, over the area of the one foot- you might actually get more damage from a good stomp with a heel that has a small surface area.
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For our combined educational ranking, we gave the number of four-year colleges greater weight than both the number of two-year and the number of highly ranked institutions in a metro area.
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