The company, under its Tapcon brand, began marketing large-diameter concrete screws with tiny, arrowhead-shape chisels wrapped around the screw, to cut into concrete like sharks' teeth.

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From the side view silhouette, classic rear-drive sport sedan proportions are conveyed by an extended dash-to-axle length, short overhangs, large-diameter wheels, sharply-tapered greenhouse, and short rear deck.

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These include long-term energy security, the viability of shipping large volumes of oil through the Bosporus, and the attractiveness of a large-diameter pipeline to a port like Ceyhan, which is able to handle exports from both sides of the Caspian.

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The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued new advice saying patients with these large head diameter metal-on-metal hips will need monitoring for the life-time of the implant.

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These large helium-filled balloons, which range up to 400 feet in diameter and can carry 8000 pounds of payload, have attached gondolas designed to house instrumentation, controls, avionics and telescopes.

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Or so says David Eichler, lead author of a forthcoming Astrophysical Journal Letters paper positing that a sun-grazing comet roughly the size of Hale-Bopp (with a nucleus some 30 kms in diameter), could trigger cosmic ray-generating shockwaves large enough to initiate a global electromagnetic Armageddon.

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The parts--as large as 2 feet on a side and accurate within five-thousandths of an inch (about twice the diameter of a human hair)--give more substance to sales pitches and reveal flaws earlier in a product's design.

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