Had they the imagination, in that taupe plastic box they could have seen the death of their entire industry.
At the base of the cardboard backboard is a black plastic box with a pair of small orange switches on it.
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The South American crocodile, which could grow to 2.5m (8ft) long, was found in a plastic box outside Wickid Pets, Wolverhampton, earlier this week.
He also fitted each turtle with a plastic box that collected its urine, for he had a suspicion that therein lay the key to the mystery.
"It's the fourth one we've had in 18 months and so now when we see a plastic box we have to approach it with caution, " he said.
The cells that make the structures that hold tissues together are injected into a "bioreactor, " really a specially designed plastic box filled with netting made of suture material.
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ShelterBox was started in 2000 by Tom Henderson who had the simple idea of placing all the items a homeless family of 10 could need in one big plastic box.
Government sources told CNN several vials and a plastic box with two holes similar to something used in lab work was found in a search of one pond last December.
The 26-year-old from Malacca makes her living -- and her name as a local celebrity -- by fearlessly entering a 3 meter-by-3 meter plastic box filled with the potentially lethal stingers.
You're greeted with a solid plastic box that holds your documents, a branded mousepad, toolkit, T-Shirt and a hand-written quality-assurance sign-off sheet from the person who tested and set up your gear.
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The pair got the idea from the American illusionist David Blaine who recently spent 44 days without any food inside a plastic box suspended by a crane near the River Thames in London.
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And now, 30 years later, a new Bolivian government, in a new Latin America, finds his grave, digs him up and returns him, in a plastic box, for reburial in a grand mausoleum in Cuba.
Today we got to see the thing in action at the Pepcom event here at CES. The hardware is a small black plastic box that should plug into most cars sold in the US after 1996.
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David Lock, counsel for the hospital, part of the Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust, said a doctor had said she was "living in a plastic box" and that her life would be "dominated by pain and suffering".
Only in the world of personal computers could a company like Apple, essentially a has-been reduced to a miniscule market share, introduce a throwback model distinguished only by a differently colored plastic box, and have it treated by the media as if it was a history-making event.
The transcripts showed that Sgt Nightingale had 122 live rounds of 9mm ammunition, 40 live rounds of 7.62 ammunition, 50 frangible rounds of 9mm ammunition, 50 live rounds of armour piecing ammunition, two live rounds of .308 ammunition and 74 live rounds of 5.56 ammunition in "a plastic box under the bed".
They also found two kitchen timer units, two toggle switches attached to the timers in a plastic lunch-type box and a vehicle battery in the front passenger foot well.
This market-share surge in a business known for glacial progress owes mainly to product innovations like colored ketchups (purple, pink, blue) and plastic squeeze bottles (see box, p. 128).
The company's main product, a mushroom-growing kit, is a cardboard box that houses a plastic bag filled with coffee grounds and mushroom spawn.
As I settled into the car, a battered Toyota Solara, Lanier apologized for the condition of the front seat, the footwell of which was cluttered with old magazines, half-empty plastic water bottles, and a squashed box of tissues.
Any item with a plug or batteries which fits into an average sized plastic carrier bag can be put in the green box, which is picked up weekly.
The clear plastic seam was exactly even around the center of the box.
My mom has a Keurig machine, and a box of K-cups is the size of a small toaster oven and besides the box, every single cup generates a wasted plastic container and foil lid.
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"This is for the secretary, " she told the clerk, Celeste Payot, as she handed over the box, which was neatly wrapped in a yellow plastic bag and tied with a steel wire.
Buying organic baby carrots in bulk and packaging them into reusable cloth snack packs is more expensive AND takes longer than buying baby carrots wrapped in extra plastic that you can just grab and throw into a lunch box.
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As far as comfort is concerned, chew on this -- out of the box, the Rat 9's completely coated in soft-touch plastic, and if you don't like that, you can swap for a pair of textured rubber palm and pinky grips instead.
But if you took a little extra time with the heat gun you could shrink the plastic with just the right tension so the seam would stay even in the center of the box.
Fast forward a few years, Ryan launches Black Box Wines which focuses on quality, appellation-specific, vintage wines sealed in thick plastic bags, then boxed.
When Laermer learns that a company has not been landing enough press, he'll send over a big box filled with the few articles the company has managed to grab, as well as a bunch of plastic spider webs.
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