Like the SS-AR1, the SS-AR2's cabinet design was developed as deftly as its base materials.

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New Orleans-based companies Strike It Green and the Green Project will be recycling props, base materials, and carpeting from the Super Bowl sets and events in an effort to bring life to materials that are otherwise thrown out and wasted.

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Indeed, for big, high-value choices, that seems obvious: when Starbucks introduced its instant coffee, or when Applied Materials moved its manufacturing and engineering base to Asia, those decisions involved sizable amounts of resources and significant risk.

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Publications, multimedia products and UNESCO materials relating to the climate change knowledge base will be made available at the UNESCO booth (booth 59), where you can discuss the UNESCO Climate Change Initiative and the broad range of related actions with UNESCO staff.

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Noble Fir forms the base, accented by such unusual-for-holiday plant materials such as lavender, globe thistle and pearly everlasting.

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Many Japanese SMEs have the technology and knowledge base, yet are capital-poor with exorbitantly high labor and materials operations costs relative to Chinese firms.

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"Typically a habitat is less than the cost of large rocketry, " Michael Griffin of NASA told AP, and successfully utilizing the native materials on the moon will be a crucial to creating a viable base there.

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Accessories in natural materials, such as cane shades and grass floor matting, give you a good base on which to build.

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The easy answer is that, after years of under-investment by producers, particularly during the technology boom of the 1990s when most investors considered base metals dirt, the world has finally woken up to the fact that there are not enough raw materials to go round.

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