The cabin felt like a design cocoon of fine materials, leather, metals and woods.
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Little of that fits into what the luxury industry has typically offered with its peddling of status, image, and fine materials.
They boast large global market shares in specialised niches: ceramics and other fine materials for semiconductors, tiny motors for hard drives and other digital equipment, a range of sophisticated machines for making liquid-crystal display panels, and so forth.
This is fine for making uniform materials, but not so good if detailed structure is required which is where the colloids come in.
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We saw perfectly fine companies, such as Applied Materials, an arms supplier to the Web, suffer share price skids of 40%, even though any chowderhead could tell you that demand for chips is a mortal lock to quadruple over the next five years.
Under the leadership of a team of education professionals, the teaching materials were transformed and the methodology was fine-tuned to support the development of an interactive educational environment in each learning group.
The company introduced me to the fine folks at Edmonds Community College (north of Seattle) that have a terrific Materials Science program.
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About the same size as fine particles of cigarette smoke, the grains are made of silicate minerals and carbon-based materials coated with ice - principally water ice and frozen carbon monoxide.
So this all looks very fine, but with commodities like cotton having spiked in the last quarter, and many retailers citing higher materials costs as affecting margins already, where are the price hikes in apparel?
"A whole new world opened up with the introduction of acrylics and canvas -- the changing of materials let their creativity just really open up, " said Adrian Mibus, director of Whitford Fine Art gallery in London, which is currently holding a selling exhibition of Aboriginal art.
Intending to build a private English kingdom in the Zambian wilds, he shipped out grand pianos and fine wines from the mother country, while local labourers reproduced traditional English furniture from native wood and lugged building materials through the bush for hours.
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