Blue Cross doesn't have spare equipment on-site, however, and Ackermann acknowledges that obtaining new equipment from suppliers may take a while.

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Blue Coat and NetApp both denied selling equipment to Syria, which is on the U.S. sanctions list, and insist that their equipment was redirected without their knowledge.

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But those who have developed the skills necessary for the best blue-collar jobs, largely mechanics, installers and equipment operators, find they're doing better than the average American, no matter the color of the collar.

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He also presented the show with his own version of the Blue Peter badge made out of solid aluminium, manufactured by Apple's equipment, using the programme's catchphrase: "Here's one that we made earlier".

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It sells them directly to a local steel fabricator, Blue Star Steel, which uses them to stamp out small brackets for heating and air conditioning equipment for other industries, skipping the foundry altogether.

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And Tibby (Amber Tamblyn) is a blue-haired cynic whose summer job at a superstore named Wallman's is paying for video equipment to make her first film.

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