In other news, pedal-powered transportation geared up for the future as we showcased a chain-less hybrid bike with an out-of-this-world design and a molded bamboo bike that is grown from the ground up.
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That's in addition to the 125 full-time Hutton plan ners who cater to high-priced clients Merrill Lynch, after a false start in financial planning a few years ago, has geared up to go after the middle-income client.
Its textile industry, still dominated by smaller firms, had not geared up for the post-quota world as China's had.
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Luke's Medical Center in Manila, says the private institution is "better equipped than 90% of hospitals in the U.S." Bangkok's high-tech Bumrungrad Hospital has also geared up to meet this demand, as has the newly opened Beijing United Family Hospital, which caters to wealthy Chinese as well as expatriates.
At CNN content partner Mashable, a blog that got its start focusing exclusively on social media and saw its popularity rise as Facebook's did, the staff geared up by creatin g an IPO-inspired playlist on music site Spotify (which, perhaps not coincidentally, is accessible only through a Facebook account).
Since the United States had always been a country of "cheap gas, " (a tradition that continues, by the way) American car companies were not geared up to build small, fuel-efficient cars, but foreign manufacturers were.
Governments all over the world geared up to spend long term from revenue generated from short-term tax revenues.
Scotland's Colin Montgomerie geared up for next week's Accenture Matchplay with another top-20 finish.
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The robot can also fold up for easy storage in your car, and later models are being geared towards being able to fold up small enough to use as carry-on luggage.
He ends up with U.S. Bank where he is offered all sorts of financial products geared toward low-income consumers.
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