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In that cold, copper wire and plastic become brittle.
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Lucent's 30, 000 techies work on such advances as plastic fiber flexible enough to wire your home, a new over-the-air laser system for local optical transmission and routers with mind-boggling capacity.
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At age 24--among the first to use plastic strapping, instead of wire, to wrap newspaper bundles after they leave the printing press--he bought out his father's partner and relaunched the company as Power Industries.
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Same bangs cut straight across like on those dolls done up in native costumes that live their whole lives in plastic cases held up by a metal wire around the waist.
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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.
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One wire is attached to a flashlight battery and another to a plastic jug of explosives, and each is glued to a thin board.
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The court heard it was made out of chicken wire, and as the cat entered a peg was dislodged, sealing the cage with a plastic flap.
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"I mean, Jean Paul Gaultier eat your heart out, " she says pointing to another exhibit, a bright red wire spiral bra, with white roses over the nipple area and covered in a host of plastic butterflies.
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