It would be reductive to suggest that these displays of patriotism are simply the response of a small country that just doesn't crank out that many Oscar winners or Olympic golds.
The control for this valve is a rotating crank handle that has to be screwed what feels like a hundred turns to switch from one position to the other.
The factories that crank out the flash memory used in digital music players cost billions of dollars each.
The result is surprisingly compact facilities like the engine plant in Durham that crank out billions of dollars worth of products each year.
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The company's 1, 600 engineers crank out handsets that work with the full alphabet soup of voice and data networks, including CDMA, GSM, EV-DO and Edge.
This uses hydraulic actuators attached to the antiroll bars that crank into action against the natural tendency of the car to flex from side to side in a turn.
Only when Jobs returned, about a decade later, was Apple able to surge from a computing also-ran to an innovator able to crank out products that shattered the status quo.
Foley is a big believer in statistical analysis, especially the type of in-depth, multivariable analysis that academics are beginning to crank out using the detailed ShotLink data that the Tour records for every shot in every tournament.
Indeed, it is France that feels the need to crank up the spluttering Franco-German motor that once propelled Europe forward.
He thinks the Saudis are lying about their ability to crank up output and that natural decline rates from existing fields will overwhelm new fields from Iraq, Venezuela or Nigeria.
Archer Daniels Midland is building a factory in Clinton, Iowa that will annually crank out 50, 000 tons of plastic naturally produced by corn-eating bacteria.
The Guard Dog also speeds things up by letting you crank drives through a mechanism that'll wipe them as they pass through, even if they're enclosed in metal cases.
Taking to Crowd Supply for funding, Gridcase's Reactor features an internal 400mAh battery and a crank-powered 500mAh generator that allows users to manually distribute power to their phone's fading cell.
Critics such as Heartland and ALEC are saying that most base-load generators are designed to go all-day, every-day and not to crank up and down so that they can back up wind and solar.
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Look, I know there are going to be a few defensive headphone-wearers out there who claim that they never crank the volume, and only listen to soft Ray LaMontagne or humpback whales, and can hear the traffic all around them.
Xerox claims that its printers, which can crank out 80 pages a minute, can target specific areas of a page for color printing using a material that is cheaper than what is used in standard laser printers.
Intel can crank out vast numbers of chips that cram more transistors onto a slice of silicon than its competitors.
Hendrix changed the way the guitar was played and inspired legions of aspiring rock stars to crank up their amps and make that feedback sing.
Dublin startup Steorn is promising to demonstrate an invention in London this week that uses magnets to crank out a limitless supply of clean, cheap energy.
While we're on the topic of settings, you can set a maximum and minimum temperature, along with a four-digit password -- you know, so that the kiddies don't have too much fun using that click wheel to crank up the heat.
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Subsidizing alternative energy, in contrast, is likely to have the perverse effect of causing them to crank up the air-conditioning in that mansion in Nashville.
That ISG has been able to crank up its own production to meet demand is due partly to its having recently also bought two other American companies: Weirton Steel and Georgetown Steel.
That gives Apple enough memory to crank out the equivalent to between 60 million and 75 million 8-gigabyte units during the second half of this year, Handy argues, up from 30 million units during the same period last year.
What we fail to do is crank these down into actual solution-scale problems that we can use out ingenuity on.
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Dearborn, Michigan (CNN) -- If the crooked blue staircase, colorful crank and dangling bathtub looked familiar, well, that's the point.
Bolstered by this, they crank up the dismissiveness and vitriol with the knowledge that all their atheist friends have their back.
As prices fall, we can be sure that Steve Jobs is already looking to crank out new designs to revitalize the Mac line.
That's no surprise, given that it takes fewer resources for blogs to crank out content than it does print titles.
But he records rap singles that groups like the Cash Money Millionaires can crank out in 20 minutes or less, using electronic rhythm sections.
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