This meant replacing the 14-pound-per-gallon mud that was in the wellbore with 8.5-pound-per-gallon sea water.
Today, many are worth less per pound than discarded soda cans are, Mr. Melek estimates.
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Lithium battery chemistry, commercialized in 1991, changes this equation with a four-fold gain in energy stored per pound.
These are more bountiful and therefore more affordable, though they sell for upwards of 750 euros per pound.
For 50 years--1920 to 1970--annual garlic consumption in the U.S. languished at a measly half a pound per person.
Oranges sold for making concentrate fetch as much as 30% less per pound.
Before American chicken feet walked into China, they were used for animal feed, making about 2 cents per pound.
Dr. Melina Jampolis, a physician nutrition specialist from San Francisco, California, said losing a pound per week is very reasonable.
For the last three years, copper has traded on commodity exchanges in a narrow band centering around 76 cents per pound.
Air cargo costs have risen nearly 7 cents to an average of 60 cents per pound because of higher security costs.
Last year, after Hurricane Katrina knocked out sugar crops and refineries, world sugar prices more than doubled to 19 cents per pound.
But Toyota and other automakers like lithium ion because they can get at least twice the horsepower per pound from the battery.
The average (median) cost per pound received rose to 36p last year.
Some varieties of Guatemalan coffees now cost about 70 cents more per pound than the global benchmark contract traded on IntercontinentalExchange Inc.
One sixteen-year-old girl grew especially attached to the graying Cockney, and convinced her parents to give Keating a pound per day for full-time instruction.
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For 2013, the company is estimating sales to hit 4.3 billion pounds, compared to 3.65 billion last year, at a cash cost of 41.35 per pound.
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But if I take a bus, the bus only emits about a quarter of a pound per mile that the bus drives per person in the bus.
By contrast, Philip Hammond, the transport secretary, reckons that the road projects the government is paying for will, on average, return six pounds of benefit per pound invested.
In 2010, the yield sank to one pound per plant.
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First, weight loss is often an uphill metabolic battle for many, with very little margin for error in achieving that appropriate 1-2 pound per week goal you mention.
Collectors typically get about 30 cents per pound of e-waste.
In a 20-year period, Cape ostrich feathers tripled in value, and at their peak their price per pound was almost equal that of diamonds--in hindsight, a sure sign of a bubble economy.
We can argue about whether a change in body weight of a quarter of a pound per year is meaningful and how much faith we can put in these studies of self-reported diet.
Although the cost of developing drugs is accelerating, meaning that the number of drugs per pound invested in research and development is decreasing, there is a wealth of innovation in UK drug discovery.
However, heavier, less urgent and low value per pound shipments will increasingly shift towards the sea route as companies thrive to manage their total distribution costs efficiently, which would limit the growth in air freight segment.
Your two-pound-per-week rate of weight loss is safe and healthy, so I'm not concerned that you have lost weight too quickly, leading to a plateau.
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Per euro the pound is unchanged at 87.90 pence.
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