Nowadays, the can line includes models packed in molded plastic, a modest innovation of sorts.

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The interior is a festival of black molded plastic.

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There's the China-doll sheen of Bo Peep, the molded plastic finish of the T-Rex, and a tiny troop of khaki green soldiers, to say nothing of the space-age sleek of Buzz Lightyear.

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The body is still dominated by softly molded plastic, and the S 4 doesn't really advance the aesthetics of its predecessor the way competitors Apple, Sony and HTC have done with their latest phones.

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The carving out of interior space involves extensive use of super-thin injection-molded plastic pieces on the dash and doors, without much of anything behind them, as well as seats thinner than a jailhouse mattress.

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It's molded in plastic.

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The workers, who molded and packed plastic containers in a plant owned by Pactiv, a subsidiary of Reynolds Group Holdings, based in Lincolnshire, Ill.

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