Scientists are calling for all-metal hip replacements to be banned because of fears around their safety.
The kitchen restaurant-huge, with six sinks and a commercial-sized stove is almost all metal, except for the marble on the counters and the big center island, ideal for plating the lunches and dinners served there.
Neu was enormously successful in hugely growing the value of the privately held family concern, Hugo Neu, from a simple scrap metal trading business into one of the largest automobile crushing operations in the U.S. He then profited from taking all that crushed metal and made it available for the needs of emerging nations for raw materials for their economies.
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The promise of America says we will guarantee quality education for all children and not spend more money on metal detectors than computers in our schools.
Should they chase after the yellow metal all the way to the moon, or should reach for bargains in stocks?
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European budgets will be hard-pressed to absorb all this metal, so there will be a desperate need for export sales.
Additionally, for a seamless appearance, all connections are housed in a solid metal base.
As for the crudities of hot-metal typesetting and letter-press printing, all these have long been superseded by electronic setting (in which a 1970s managing director, Ian Trafford, was a pioneer, and made The Economist one too), and by the stunning quality of modern offset printing.
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For Robert Kraft it all started in 1971 on the cold, hard metal benches of a sad-sack football stadium in Foxboro, Mass.
All of this prompted fresh safe-haven demand for the precious yellow metal.
You get the same all-around plastic build -- ringed here with metal -- ports for microSD and micro-SIM, 3.5mm headphone jack and physical home key.
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So the ship, all 90, 000 tons of it will be cut up and the metal sold for scrap.
All over the city are young men pushing supermarket trolleys going through the garbage looking for strips of metal they can trade.
High prices for the precious metal, price volatility, a fragile labor market, depressed real estate prices and volatile stock market all contributed to hesitant consumer demand and fragile consumer confidence, WGC said.
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All of this is supportive for gold prices, and it may prompt people to buy the yellow metal as an inflation hedge as worries that the current high oil prices will last into the summer, said Bart Melek, vice president and director, head of commodity strategy, rates and foreign exchange research and TD Securities.
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