Even the most successful companies have both iPods and Newtons in their corporate closets.

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Lenovo, H-P, Brink's and Rubbermaid are all working on ultrathin laptops that can sustain impacts of up to five Newtons.

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To do this, the computers on board the ISS ignite two of the freighter's four main engines, generating a total thrust of 1, 000 newtons.

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Where are the exciting Cam Newtons and Robert Griffin IIIs?

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But since then Nabisco has grown its top line by smartly extending its iconic brands such as Fig Newtons and Oreos, adding choices that packed less of a calorie wallop.

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But then ignition gets going and at full blast the jet and the rocket will each provide about half of the 210, 000 newtons (47, 000 pounds) of thrust needed to break the record.

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The major American manufacturer Lockheed Martin was the first to use the high thrusting (635 newtons) Leros-1b on its telecoms platforms, but the engine has also found favour at the US space agency down the years.

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She loved Fig Newtons and lip gloss.

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