"We are different from anybody else, " says Scaroni, 60, who joined Eni two years ago after spending most of his career in the glass industry.
"The 'a-ha' moment was when he found out that he could turn a metal part that was made in the medical industry into glass and he could produce it for way cheaper than anyone else, " Martindale said.
It has come up with a new Corning Gorilla Glass 2, which is 20% thinner than Gorilla Glass 1 and has the same industry-leading damage resistance as its predecessor.
"This year at CES, Corning will demonstrate its industry leadership in specialty glass and fiber optic technologies with the introduction of two products designed to enhance and extend the capabilities of consumers' favorite devices, " said Wendell P.
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However, financial industry lobbyists were successful in having Glass-Steagall repealed in 1999, which resulted in banks becoming heavily involved in brokerage, mutual fund, and proprietary trading activities, as well as the packaging and promotion of questionable investment products like sub-prime mortgages.
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The banking industry spent 60 years chipping away at Glass-Steagall and finally got it repealed in 1999.
Corning manufactures glass substrates for LCDs and is one the major players in the LCD TV industry.
After creating one of the first specialty wines by the glass program to the ultimate Windows on the World Wine School, he changed an entire industry, impacting what all restaurants would come to offer.
In the same year, there were 143, 000 gasoline stations, 219 vehicles for every 1, 000 Americans, and an auto industry capable of absorbing 80 percent of all rubber, 75 percent of all glass, and a quarter of all steel.
As megabanks continue to fight implementation of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, the Madoff case is yet another argument for bringing back Glass-Steagall protections passed during the 1930s, but scrapped in 1999 during a catastrophic deregulation of the industry.
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