Formerly in the rayon business, the company has in recent decades established a global lock on the manufacture of aerospace-grade carbon fiber.

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Global Rainmakers claims that its comparable system, called the iSwipe Mini, can lock in from a foot away in less than a second.

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"Rapid deployment of energy-efficient technologies would postpone this complete lock-in to 2022, buying time to secure a much-needed global agreement to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, " says the IEA outlook.

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On May 18, 2013, the lock-up expires on 47 million shares held by Mail.ru and DST Global.

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"Schools used to have a lock on faculty, " says Kannan Ramaswamy, a management professor at Thunderbird School of Global Management.

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Most Asian stock markets ended lower Monday on worries about high oil prices' impact on global growth, with Japanese shares reversing early gains as the yen's rebound led investors to lock in profits.

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