Others use the materials in the world to make crude blocky machines and devices.
We are strongly supporting the International Atomic Energy Agency in its mission to track and control nuclear materials around the world.
Chinese and Indian demand for raw materials has driven world prices for commodities (of which South American countries are big producers) to unprecedented levels.
On nuclear issues -- our efforts to lock down nuclear materials around the world depend in large part on effective cooperation between the United States and Russia, and other countries.
The 21 Americans in the crew were trying to deliver tons of food and other agricultural materials for the World Food Program, to be distributed among destitute Muslims in that Kenyan port city, and beyond.
Facilitate the re-use, revision, remixing and redistribution of educational materials across the world through open licensing, which refers to a range of frameworks that allow different kinds of uses, while respecting the rights of any copyright holder.
More so than retailers and service providers, manufacturing companies have foreign suppliers and must import raw materials from around the world.
The first is that their improving lot has not gone unnoticed by those who sell the raw materials that feed the world's steel mills.
New York City last scoured through World Trade Center materials in 2007 and in 2010.
Microsoft wanted to expand its Encarta brand of digital reference materials, which includes the world's bestselling electronic encyclopedia.
If we are to live in a world of smart materials we should be able to understand how they work.
Because we rallied the world, nuclear materials are being locked down on every continent so they never fall into the hands of terrorists.
But Irving Mintzer, an economist, worries that the rush to new electric-car technologies could leave us dependent on other not-so-friendly parts of the world for critical materials.
It's calculated 1, 200, 000 tonnes of building materials were pulverised at the World Trade Center and most minerals are present in the dust (not necessarily in a large quantity).
This has been such a good business recently that those Brazilians who used to assert that supplying the world with raw materials would condemn the country to perennial poverty have changed their minds.
For example, there are 189 ISO standards for information security, our National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) has produced a full set of world-class materials on information security, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA) has developed its best practices, the Control Objectives for Information Technology ( CobiT).
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As nuclear powers, we can be full partners in preventing the spread of the world's most deadly weapons, securing loose nuclear materials from terrorists, and pursuing our shared vision of a world without nuclear weapons.
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We agreed to the goal of securing the world's nuclear materials in four years.
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The fibre composite materials have their roots in the world of Formula 1, among other areas.
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Owens Corning is a world leader in building materials systems and composite solutions.
And yet most of the change has been due to high prices for the raw materials that Brazil sells to the world.
And as a result, more of the world's nuclear materials will never fall into the hands of terrorists who would gladly use them against us.
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But there were also high hopes, fuelled by the thought of vast quantities of underused brainpower and raw materials that were now joining the world economy.
Hydrocarbons, helium, hydrogen, and volatiles in the solar system are important for human exploration and habitation because they will provide essential high-energy, high-density fuels and feedstock for off-world manufactured goods and materials for construction.
And with your Nuclear Threat Initiative, you helped us ratify the New START treaty, rally the world to secure nuclear materials, strengthen the global nonproliferation regime, and create an international fuel bank for peaceful nuclear power.
And not only has that led to growth and prosperity in his own country, but he has been a model in efforts around the world to eliminate nuclear materials that could fall into the wrong hands.
"Together, Alpha and Cleveland-Cliffs will have the size, the management depth and the mining expertise to compete on the global stage as demand for raw materials continues to increase around the world, " Alpha Chairman Michael Quillen said in a statement to the press.
Dow Chemical ( DOW) supplies plastic materials and chemicals to customers around the world, but North America is its largest geographic market, producing 36.4% of first quarter 2010 revenues.
"Combining the world class-technology and materials expertise of Nanosys with the engineering, design and supply chain capabilities of 3M will unlock a powerful new color viewing experience for consumers, " said Jim Bauman, Vice President of the Optical Systems Division at 3M.
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On November 7th Wendel said it had raised to 15.5% the stake of 6% that it had bought in Saint-Gobain, one of the world's leading building-materials companies, barely six weeks earlier.
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