Its products are used in the construction, road building, mining, forestry, energy, transportation and material-handling industries.
And so by comparing material-size to people-size, are we measuring primary material consumption on the right scale?
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Is there more damaging material - I mean more damaging than we've seen so far - waiting to go?
The technology works by building up layer upon layer of material - typically plastic - to build complex solid objects.
The broadcasting regulator rules that quotas of Canadian material - usually 30-35% - must be carried by TV and radio stations.
When the grid began, most local authorities did not have their own systems for collating or searching material - now they did.
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She told the children that once they start dating, they will find plenty of material -- good and bad -- to write songs about.
Instead, flight attendants will follow standard protocol for objectionable material -- they'll ask passengers to stow it away, said Bobbie Egan, an airline spokeswoman.
Black holes are known to draw in material - gas and even stars - and to stretch the very fabric of space-time at their edges.
Both the iMac and Mac mini include PVC-free components and cables, contain no brominated flame retardants, and use highly recyclable materials and material-efficient packaging designs.
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Set the company's iPhone-sized speaker on a desk, coffee table or even a surfboard and it transfers sound waves into that material -- creating an on-the-fly subwoofer.
For men, the deadliest occupations involve transportation and material-moving (pilots, bus drivers, crane operators and sailors), while administrative-support duties (couriers and stockers) claimed the most working women.
The US Treasury has said the Obama administration has thought about making its one cent coins from a cheaper material - they are currently made of zinc.
The site has teamed up with the Press Association and the British Library to allow users to attach old material - including newspaper clippings - to their own "memory box".
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These sections appear to relate to "intercept" material - secret intelligence procedures such as phone-taps - and the Independent Police Complaints Commission told the coroner the missing chunks were relevant to the circumstances.
The dress "was made from kitchen curtain material -- and people went crazy, " Pulitzer said in her book, "Essentially Lilly: A Guide to Colorful Entertaining, " excerpted on her company's website.
Aerial footage afterward showed that some metal framing -- some of it covered in a blue material -- crumpled on the stage, which was in front of a large grassy area.
The Old Bailey heard the material - which came from waste collected by 30 councils - had been shipped to Brazil by three companies to avoid the expense of sorting and cleaning it in Britain.
Mitchel Guttenberg, 41, an institutional client manager at UBS Securities, was charged with passing material--nonpublic information--to traders Erik Franklin, 39, formerly of Bear Stearns, and David Tavdy, 38, formerly of Assent, a New York broker-dealer.
Made from every manner of material--from ivory and brass to animal teeth and mother-of-pearl--tampers come in a wonderful variety of motifs, including a horse's hind leg, a bust of Oliver Cromwell, a milkmaid and, yes, a human finger.
They were warned that to make the most of the internet's campaigning potential they had to accept "losing control" of their material - with the viral "yes we can" pro-Obama campaign last year cited as the best example.
Minutes into the meeting, a foreboding package from a client arrived at the door: a box stuffed with 17 kilos' worth of promotional material--duplicate copies of research reports, newsletters and brochures--sent by groups within Pricewaterhouse's 1, 500-strong worldwide promotion machine.
Published by Random House, " Eisenhower" draws from a variety of new material -- including Eisenhower's papers and diaries -- to tell the life story of a young Kansan who who grew to be a complex and tough-minded leader.
We've seen scientists experiment with DNA as a storage medium -- most recently with a Harvard team fitting 704TB of data onto a single gram of the genetic material -- and it looks like that research trend is only picking up.
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The technique used by Green and Hollister is part of a burgeoning field called regenerative medicine, which involves engineering therapies -- using things like stem cells, or "body parts" constructed out of biological material -- to harness the body's ability to heal itself.
"This is because a substantial quantity of potentially explosive pharmaceutical material - Isosorbide Dinitrate (ISDN Pure) - has been identified on the site following a recent joint inspection by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Environment Agency Wales, " explained the council officer.
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Whenever the ambient heat reaches your set comfort level (which can be controlled from the web or a smartphone app), the fan will shut off and the insulating cover -- described to us as ironing board material -- will prevent additional heat from escaping.
In a statement, the council's chief executive, Colin Everett, said "a substantial quantity of potentially explosive pharmaceutical material - Isosorbide Dinitrate (ISDN Pure) - has been identified on the site following a recent joint inspection by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Environment Agency Wales".
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The "silent mutations" - changes in genetic material - are likely to have no obvious impact on older fathers' own children, but they may build up through subsequent generations, or interact with other genes and environmental factors, to increase the chance of their grandchildren developing the condition, the researchers say.
Pro-life and religious groups will ultimately feel that the bank signals the start of a commodification of human life and that the special status granted to human embryonic material - the requirement that it should be used only for research that would lead to the creation of life - has now changed.
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