They have remarkable physical properties - being more than 100 times stronger than steel.
Altering the way the dissolved silk crystallises changes its final properties - and how long the device will last.
The simple fact is that Blackberry - once known as Crackberry for its addictive properties - is alienating lots of its old friends.
's purchase and had taken the number two slot in Fox Interactive Media, the new unit formed to hold Murdoch's Web properties--abruptly left.
They say it is a major breakthrough in our understanding of numbers and their properties - but it may take a bit of explaining.
Traditionally, he says, surgeons have chosen stents based on their material properties--how springy they are and how easy they are to get into clogged arteries.
These include the refurbishment of 37 terraced properties - 16 of them on Madryn Street, five on High Park Street and 16 on Kelvin Grove.
Many toothpastes on the market claim to have 'whitening' properties - meaning that they may remove stains, rather than change the natural colour of the teeth.
Al-Fahim -- chief executive of Abu Dhabi-based developer Hydra Properties -- reached the deal with Thaksin and Khalid Kadfour Al-Muhairy, the legal chief of the Emirates Group.
When Singleton and Scudder have tried metro dailies, they dont buy prime properties -- monopolies, that is -- that only giants like Gannett and Knight-Ridder can afford.
These are wrapped in carbon nanotubes - tiny "straws" of pure carbon that are renowned for their electrical properties - and coated with a platinum black powder.
The BBC understands that Sir Thomas is interested in whether MPs were using money to improve their properties - rather than just maintain them, as the rules allow.
They own properties--quite often dozens, or even hundreds, of them.
Earlier, in a speech, he highlighted divisions in the coalition over the Lib Dems' proposals for higher taxes on the most valuable properties - a policy the Conservatives oppose.
Legal documents related to both properties - in a regeneration area of Margate - showed Emanuel as trustee and Ezekiel as the buyer, which he failed to declare to the council.
And the market value of such properties -- and the mortgages on them -- have declined as the spreading fallout from the crisis in risky, or subprime, mortgages has made credit practically evaporate.
Four properties - two residential addresses and a business address in north-west London, and a residential address in west London - have been searched and no hazardous materials have been found, he said.
Authorities will have the option of cutting benefit paid, or trying to fill the funding gap by scrapping the 50% discounts for second homes and empty properties - or cutting spending on services.
Pathfinders expect to demolish 57, 100 properties - a reduction from the initially-planned 90, 000 - and commission 67, 600 new homes by the likely completion of the Housing Market Renewal programme, which is due in 2018.
The other three properties -- the Presbytere, which was used as a courthouse until 1911, and the 1850 House and Madame John's Legacy, both historic homes -- were undamaged, but are closed because of staffing shortages.
The front is literally a pane of polished glass and it exhibits the same properties -- oils and fingerprints are basically invisible when the screen's on, but they show up when off (and in the black zones above and below the screen).
Real estate agents have used it to show off properties - potential buyers sitting at home in front of a computer screen can use the mouse to look at every corner of a room or to see what the view is like over the balcony.
The dispute between the broadcast network and the cable distributor arose as the two sought to negotiate a new fee structure to be paid by Time Warner to ABC for rights to transmit the network's programs -- and those of Disney-ABC's other television properties -- over its various cable systems.
As vice president of business development for the Haiti Recovery Group, he says one of the biggest obstacles for his team has been obtaining permission from the Ministry of Public Works to enter damaged properties - particularly those of commercial use - as much of the ownership documentation, if it existed, was lost in the quake.
Sheila Nemazee is also trying to shield two Italian properties--an apartment in Rome purchased in 2004 for 1.65 million euros and a farmhouse in Puglia purchased in 2006 for 1.75 million euros-- from federal prosecutors, saying they were purchased with funds that were not tied to any fraudulent conduct and belong to her under both New York and Italian law.
Instead, the company plans to focus on properties where tenants pay out-of-pocket for expenses, such as medical-office buildings, assisted-living properties and independent-living centers.
Between falling home prices, high unemployment rates and the millions of foreclosures underway, Americans not so surprisingly stopped making improvements on their owner-occupied properties post-2007.
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But, it has aggressively expanded into private-pay assisted-living properties and medical-office buildings, which account for nearly 80% of its investments.
For example, a portfolio manager who feels that his or her fund is over-allocated to office properties and under-allocated to industrial could swap a portion of the office exposure for industrial without actually buying or selling properties.
The practice took off during the real-estate boom of the 2000s, as developers flush with cash, working with investment-hungry town governments, turned so-called underutilized properties into big-box retail stores and in many cases upscale residential-commercial developments.
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