What about transactions, two-phase commit, and other mechanisms inherited from big iron legacy databases?
The plaintiffs claim that 11 defendants, Evraz being one, by dubious means deprived them of their majority stake in a big iron-ore complex now part of the Evraz empire.
But savings on the big-iron bill are being translated into more content, and that's where these cars get scary.
No wonder that Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, a big Brazilian iron-ore producer, is buying Inco, one of the two Canadian nickel firms gobbled up in recent deals.
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Big companies like Iron Mountain.
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Should China be able to secure iron ore from other sources outside the big three, it could lower demand for iron ore from Vale and its rivals.
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Released across Scotland's main Cineworld sites in five cities on Friday 3 May, We Are Northern Lights will compete against the big Hollywood franchises such as Iron Man and Star Trek.
Loren and I walked the railroad tracks along the river coming back from fishing the big pool under the old iron bridge, and I couldn't remember a lovelier evening before or after our world changed.
The glut of iron ore developing in the international market is good news for steel consumers such as car makers and builders but will hit the profits of BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Vale, the big three of the seaborne iron ore trade.
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Simmered all day in a cast-iron pot with a big slug of fatback, brown beans have warmed the bodies and souls of many hardworking men and women of the Appalachian coalfields.
You'll notice a big improvement when you both eat red meat and take iron pills (supplements are usually necessary to get out of the iron-deficient status but usually do not need to be consumed long term).
These days, with Hollywood churning out big budget movies based on comic book characters such as Iron Man, the Silver Surfer and the Incredible Hulk, a comics-based opera about a cute little fox may sound a bit tame.
Obviously Marvel, which is now also of course owned by Disney, has been building towards this for the last five years, with the big question being whether the stand-alone films like Iron Man 3 will still appeal to audiences now treated with a massive crossover event.
While the big deepwater ships that carry huge quantities of the nation's iron ore, coal and other goods are able to steam the deep waters of the Great Lakes as they always have, they must carry ever lighter loads to avoid grounding on the increasingly shallow harbors where they unload.
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Mr Putin said he had thanked God that no big fragments of the meteor - which was thought to be made of iron and travelling at some 30km (19 miles) per second - had fallen in populated areas.
Disney (which now owns Marvel, the company behind Iron Man) can thank Robert Downey, Jr. for a big chunk of that success.
The Arctic is already a big source of minerals, including zinc in Alaska, gold in Canada, iron in Sweden and nickel in Russia, and there is plenty more to mine.
After a series of indie flicks and some time off to play mom, Paltrow scored big with her leading lady role opposite Robert Downey Jr. in the summer blockbuster Iron Man.
Analysts at ICAP Shipping Research in London shrug off the idea that there will be a glut, since shipments of cheap Australian coal and iron ore to China have for years been constrained by a lack of big ships.
Although Brazil enjoys a big overall trade surplus with China, most of its exports are of commodities (mainly iron ore, soya beans and crude oil).
I'd been diagnosed with low iron before, but the first surprised me, as I have always been a big leafy-green vegetable eater.
Meanwhile, at the Sino Iron site the latest deadline nears for first shipment from a project which still faces two big challenges.
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Dr. SCHAWINSKI: So, in the very early universe, most of the elements that were made in the Big Bang were hydrogen and helium, and very few trace elements of heavier elements, like oxygen and iron and so forth.
The upcoming trio of films is a far cry from recent years when movies such as "Iron Man" and "Green Lantern" took a chance by introducing lesser-known superheroes on the big screen with very different results.
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