Something peripheral for which alternatives can be readily found is easier and cheaper to do without than something at the heart of industrial life.
Several companies are already seeking to take advantage of the new field, called synthetic biology, which combines chemistry, computer science, molecular biology, genetics and cell biology to breed industrial life forms that can secrete fuels, vaccines or other commercial products.
Gas is a bargain here compared to much of the industrial world, but life in the U.S. is built around cars -- and fuel isn't considered a finite resource, it's a right.
Moreover, for all the rhetoric of functionalism, even in their own time the most notable 1920s and '30s Bauhaus buildings and objects were really aesthetic explorations of new materials and techniques, or conceptual critiques of life in an industrial age--rather than technological inventions or discoveries in the scientific sense.
New orders to build ships for the Royal Navy have given the old industrial giant a new lease of life.
Cintas began life as the Acme Industrial Laundry Co. in 1929.
Because we live here we know that a lot else is going on - business and industrial work, cultural and educational life, politics, government, social activities.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
His 39 years at Caterpillar protect Lierle from the current plan to shed 20, 000 jobs, but he knows many of the workers who are gone, or who will be let go over the next couple of months, and worries that a way of life in blue-collar industrial towns like Peoria is coming to an end.
As a result, his grand landscapes, whether industrial or natural, come more vibrantly to life than the characters who inhabit them.
And its economy, though it has now been overtaken in size by China's, remains home to a huge industrial apparatus with the innovative clout to make life easier for its elderly citizens.
Snyder wants to make the slaughter less ideological and technological than it has seemed, and more geographic and territorial: a question not so much of evil ideas carried out by industrial means as of ancient hatreds brought to life by modern monsters in ancient terrain.
Mr Rose has swept away any lingering guesswork and approximation about the intellectual life of the British working classes in the industrial age.
If official statistics are to be believed, Cuba's levels of infant mortality (7.2 deaths per 1, 000 births) and of life expectancy are comparable to those of rich industrial countries.
The 500 billion tons of carbon dioxide deposited in our oceans since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution are making seawater more acidic, already affecting life in cold-water areas such the Pacific Northwest.
Then came the Industrial Revolution with its hockey-stick curve in income and life span.
Dell, one of America's 40 biggest companies, started life at the university in 1984, and smart industrial policy brought Sematech, a consortium involving the government as well as 14 big chip firms, to Austin in 1988.
While industrial countries are striving towards increased energy efficiency, there are areas in the world where life is characterized by energy poverty.
At first, Dnepropetrovsk seems like an odd place to create a sophisticated art project: factories, smokestacks, powerlines, industrial workers with perhaps very little interest in the arts and generally low level of quality of life.
And in a marvel of pre-industrial pickling, he would remain so, without withering, for the final two decades of his life.
Elast-Eon was designed at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Melbourne, Australia, as a biostable material for use in life-critical medical devices such cardiovascular implants.
The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.
It was sheer good fortune, he always thought, that brought both Mr Rock and Mr Perkins into his life, and the luck of the business cycle that put him in the thick of the wildest industrial growth in modern American history.
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