In the case of steel, U.S. companies never recovered, dropping from nearly 90 percent of worldwide market share to roughly 10 percent.
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For that you get a 40mm wide steel case that is not only made from a very high-grade steel, but is also among the best steel cases I have ever seen.
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Nissan places the battery pack of its LEAF all-electric car in a steel case.
The Higher Performance Sea Diver comes in a steel case with a Swiss ETA automatic movement (likely a 2892).
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Nissan says its battery layout is especially safe, including a frame around the battery and a robust steel case around the battery itself.
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The most disturbing case was Nippon Steel, Japan's biggest steel maker, whose top managers had not heard of the Year 2000 problem until a year ago.
The newest SPARC watch is the SPARC Sigma MGS. It will initially be offered in a black or satin finished steel case on a bracelet or high-grade rubber strap.
It has a 42mm wide steel case and bracelet, being powered with the same Omega caliber 1861 manually wound chronograph movement that was in the watches that went on the moon.
Far along in the development process, Steve Jobs famously ordered Ive's designers to change the look of the iPhone, scrapping its aluminum case for a stainless steel bezel that made the touchscreen display more prominent, according to Walter Isaacson's recent biography of the mercurial Apple CEO.
It started its WTO practice soon after China joined the WTO in 2001 and is currently working on the "steel pipes" case against the U.S., in the first WTO dispute launched by China to reach the expert panel stage.
Essentially, this is a Blackberry 9900 in a Porsche Design outfit, with a stainless steel body and a leather case.
Apple should learn to use more steel versus aluminum for the case, and sapphire crystal or perhaps the new Gorilla Glass 3 for an iWatch screen.
In any case, the best of Brazil's existing steel firms, which have strong balance sheets, are already going multinational.
In fact, just recently, steel workers in Ohio and throughout the Midwest, Pennsylvania, are in a position now to sell steel to China because we won that case.
That means the architecture followed from engineering considerations such as the tensile strength of steel rather than, as in the case of Beaux Arts, originating from a sculptural ideal.
Yet his attempt in 1952 to seize the steel industry led to a landmark Supreme Court case that overturned the move.
The case has been brought by unions representing former employees at Allied Steel and Wire (ASW) and United Engineering Forgings (UEF).
On a recent trip to New York City, Branagan tucked a wallet-size slab of coated steel into his breast pocket--just in case of stray bullets.
The case against Ms. Berger, a mortgage broker with her husband at Steel City Mortgage Services near Pittsburgh, PA, had its start when FBI agents went through the trash of real estate appraiser Kenneth Cowden.
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Also making the case was Drew Greenblatt, the widely quoted president and owner of Marlin Steel, a Baltimore manufacturer of steel products that has managed to expand and add jobs by deploying robots and other machines to increase worker productivity.
In each case the trend has already been apparent for a generation or more (the Japanese steel industry, for instance, cut its workforce by close to half in the 1980s).
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