Lafreniere said that the foot was fake, made of plastic or rubber, and that it was someone's idea of a bad joke.
She suggests using metal, not plastic or rubber, toys and trinkets.
They have helped test the impact of nonlethal munitions like plastic and rubber bullets and have helped determine the best kind of footwear for land-mine clearance teams.
The basic design is the same -- it's a chunky slab of thick, ribbed, soft-touch plastic and rubber, with a sizable chrome screw holding the backplate in place.
Taking into account labor, materials, transportation, and energy costs, the chemicals, primary metals, and heavy equipment manufacturing industries stand to benefit most from maintaining or expanding facilities in the U.S. Companies in wood, plastic, and rubber products could also benefit significantly, but their lower net imports might limit their benefits from on-shoring.
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We were now all moving away from rubber and plastic straps and into full-on stainless-steel wristbands to match the TAG Heuer casings.
Toyota fears a scarcity of 500 rubber, plastic and electronic parts.
The high oil price makes rubber and plastic more expensive.
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Each of them have the telltale look of every Panasonic Toughbook and Toughpad -- a solidly constructed silver plastic shell with black rubber corners and a girth roughly twice that of its less robust gadget brethren.
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To make a gadget called the Can Pump N' Pour, a circular hard plastic ring with a rubber cover that keeps the fizz in opened soda cans, Davison engineers went through 30 different versions with its own moldmaking machines before getting the shape right.
Nothing wiggles, nothing feels like it's in danger of breaking off, and all of the materials seem to be there for a reason: the tops of the jog wheels are grooved to feel like vinyl, for instance, and knobs, faders, and buttons are all coated in non-slip rubber or plastic.
It is made from a blend of crushed rock, rubber and polyurethane, a synthetic plastic that replaces bitumen as the binding agent and allows even bigger pores in the road surface.
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There is no plastic, no wood, no carpeting, only metal and leather and some rubber mats.
He took a rubber band off the top of one of them, removed a piece of plastic wrap, and, with a knife, jimmied out a disk of wax.
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.
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