And Goldstein is beginning to get referrals from conventional vets--including the Animal Medical Center, New York City's well-known--and conventional--animal hospital.
Most of these huge companies have been turned into vaguely conventional-looking businesses.
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He might start with a conventional-looking figure cast in bronze, but when you got close you saw it was disfigured with bits of junk reclaimed from rubbish dumps.
Most studies to date suggest that shale-gas wells may lead to slightly higher carbon-dioxide emissions than conventional-gas ones because more wells are needed and fracking requires lots of power from diesel motors.
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While Toyota has focused its electrified-vehicle efforts on conventional hybrids, and General Motors has emphasized its Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, after a long and unspectacular record of offering conventional-hybrid versions of some of its most popular conventional models Ford has begun determinedly fielding a wide variety of new electrified vehicles.
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In this case, Hillenbrand offered hospitals discounts averaging 7% on conventional beds if they agreed to rent the specialized beds as well. (Because of their expense and the training required to operate them, the beds are usually rented.) Since Kinetic Concepts doesn't have a conventional- bed business, it found it almost impossible to compete.
But every western government is worried about the natural affinity between non-conventional weapons and non-conventional terrorists.
Pattern analysis -- the heart of data mining -- is conventional crime-solving, whether the suspicious patterns are spotted on a crime pin map, on a city street, or in an electronic database.
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As this happens, the world must also support efforts to secure dangerous weapons -- conventional and otherwise -- and bring fighters under central, civilian control.
The creation of 26 distribution centers--each one bigger than 18 conventional supermarkets--will take costs out of the equation.
And in Detroit, BMW will showcase its 750hL, a large, 7-Series sedan with a nearly conventional V-12 motor powered by compressed hydrogen.
By trying to make hay from the current tablet frenzy, Amazon has strayed from its customer-centric roots towards a more conventional product-centric mindset.
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The five-year-old firm, a cable-TV operator with about 30, 000 Manila customers, began offering Internet-over-cable in July as an alternative to conventional dial-up access.
Westergren thinks the biggest opportunity for the company will be to eat into the 90%-plus of the market still held by conventional over-the-air radio.
Bringing together hundreds of thousands of components to quickly launch such a massive-scale computing system-which would have been nearly impossible using conventional technologies-requires an incredible level of reliability.
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The Osprey's tiltrotor technology makes it the world's only transport plane capable of taking-off and landing vertically and converting in-flight to fly at speeds comparable to conventional turbo-props.
Wireless devices of every stripe are connecting to the Internet in such numbers that, by 2007, e-mail addresses associated with mobile phones will outnumber conventional e-mail addresses.
The company announced at the Los Angeles Auto Show that the U.S. version of its Mazda 6 midsize sedan, which got a major redesign for the 2014 model year, will offer a new four-cylinder diesel engine, in addition to a conventional four-cylinder gasoline engine.
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It largely abandoned the specialized deepwater-drilling business and built a fleet of the more conventional shallow-water rigs known as jackups.
In only one of the trials did the use of stem-cell support and high-dose chemotherapy appear to prolong life more effectively than conventional low-dose treatment.
Governments are yielding influence to non-governments, by which Peres means not just the conventional non-governmental and multinational organizations, but also global corporations, which, he says, see no borders and carry no baggage of prejudice or class.
Consumers have already responded to the Administration's fuel efficiency standards for Model Years 2011 through 2016, and it shows in the popularity of cars like GM's Chevy Cruze and trucks like the Ford F-150 equipped with an EcoBoost engine instead of the conventional V-8.
It will offer an iPad-like reading experience for a much lower price and leave conventional e-readers in the dust when it comes to building a list of features.
For the sake of comparison, AMSC indicates in their literature that a 10 MW superconductor generator would have a nacelle-generator combination weighing approximately 420 tons, compared with a conventional direct-drive machine weighing over 800 tons.
In this topsy-turvy environment, you might be better off turning the conventional year-end advice on its head if your bracket will be higher next year, says John Hewitt, chief executive of Liberty Tax Service, a national tax preparation firm based in Virginia Beach, Va.
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The result, they say, should please both sides of the peer-to-peer debate: Users can download files about 20% faster than conventional file-sharing, while cutting the bandwidth requirements by more than a factor of five.
Medtronic, a medical-device maker, began offering its employees this sort of plan, along with more conventional managed-care coverage, last year.
Germany also rattled the markets and its partners by introducing a unilateral ten-month ban on naked short-selling (when securities are sold that are not owned or borrowed, which is the practice in conventional short-selling).
As with conventional credit-card transactions, the card companies would cover the cost of unauthorized purchases.
In a conventional fossil-fuel plant that's prohibitively expensive, since the CO2 is mixed in with nitrogen.
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