Even a company selling humble screws and hand tools goes to extraordinary lengths to keep up standards.
And now Costco will carry hand tools, power tools and tool storage units at all its 430 stores.
Larger bets run the gamut of industries, including print media, online education, hand tools, restaurant chains and, of course, software.
Thousands of these workers burrowed through the mountains with hand tools and explosives, cleared land and laid tracks, often working in appalling conditions.
He bragged he would become the Sam's Club of industrial supplies, offering discounted prices for halogen lights, hand tools, abrasives and the like.
The world's main gem deposits, they contend, are often too small to justify major investments, and sometimes may be better exploited with primitive hand tools.
Flooring, power tools and hand tools also showed strength and boosted the average sales receipt, executives with the largest home-improvement retailer said during the call.
In 1985, along with business partner Roy Chung Chi-ping, he founded Techtronic Industries in Hong Kong, which had six employees and focused on producing rechargeable battery packs in hand tools.
Instead of a tractor and irrigation equipment, all SPIN farmers need are a few hand tools, maybe a Roto-tiller, and a commercial cooler to store their crops until they can get them to market.
One set of tools is essential for life: knives and other hand tools, fire and other tools for clothing and warmth, agricultural tools and transportation tools such as packs, wheels, wagons, harnesses and saddles.
"There's a hands-on demonstration that they can use of all the equipment, hand tools, backpack, their fire shelter, deploying it, using drip torches, pumps, working with other units on a fire line, " Sammon said, of the training Veseth received.
Philippe Dufour stands high up in the watchmaking pantheon, not as a brand, but an independent master watchmaker--just himself, an assistant or two, and a few machine and hand tools that would be instantly recognizable to a watchmaker 200 years ago.
It will be standing room only on the Capitol grounds -- the Secret Service says no lawn chairs, nor umbrellas or signs will be allowed -- and the lengthy list of banned items includes aerosol spray, air horns, coolers, glass, hand tools, laser pointers, pepper spray, strollers, and thermoses.
My dad was an engineer and I spent countless hours tinkering with him on the DIY projects he had going on around our house, from using an oscilloscope and hand tools, to being allowed to drive the tractor, learning how to set spark plugs and change a timing belt, swapping out alternators, building a computer and soldering circuit paths on to an early motherboard .
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Other important hand to hand weapons tools include the spear, the battleaxe, the pike and the polearm.
According to the official tale told at the elaborate commemorative museum near Linzhou, workers, using little more than hand-tools, took all of the 1960s to build the 1, 500km waterway and its 462 reservoirs and ponds.
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War will happen with the tools at hand, even if it threatens the very civilization war is supposed to protect.
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Particularly in Confucian societies in East Asia, people are more keen to hand down the latest tools and knowledge to the next generation.
For now, we have no choice to but to utilize the tools at hand and try our best to reduce emissions, preserve endangered ecosystems and sustain biodiversity.
On the other hand, regulators had tools in place already to deal with these problems and they ignored them thinking the housing market juggernaut would only go up.
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Finally, the head of the Federal Reserve sought to reassure markets that his institution had all the tools at hand to rein back accommodative monetary policy when needed.
On one hand, the basic communication tools now available make distance almost a non-issue.
The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
Scientists now have the tools readily at hand to copy anything that life can build, and beat it at its own game.
While Mayor Michael Bloomberg is often portrayed as the developers' friend, Ms. Burden has kept a steady eye on improving the public realm through the tools close to hand.
On the other hand, innovation is more than tools and approaches.
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Critical parts are typed up by hand and, despite a wealth of testing tools that claim to catch bugs, the complexity of software makes security flaws and errors nearly unavoidable and increasingly common.
To eschew such tools is to fight terrorism with one hand tied behind your back.
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