In subsequent years the company acquired names brands that were well liked in their day such as Blue Bell, Healthtex and Bestform.
Its rivals include firms such as Blue Heron Biotechnology, founded in 1999, and DNA 2.0, founded in 2003, both of which also deliver DNA on demand.
Other important tools, such as the Blue Shield, have been developed by non-governmental organizations.
Today, advanced divers can get up close to the ruins with dive operators such as Big Blue and Zi Ao Diving Club, which run regular dives between April and November.
Late Turner: Painting Set Free will reassess Turner's body of work during Turner's final years (1835-50) when some of his most celebrated works were created, such as The Blue Rigi, Sunrise (1842).
There are even producers, such as Yellow and Blue, who sell only organic boxed wines.
The museum will feature artefacts from her time in office such as her trademark blue Aquascutum suits and handbags.
The tournament saw Mr. Kesner and his "Trivial Dispute" co-founder, Gavin Shulman, run through themed rounds on topics such as goats and blue moons, the latter a nod to tournament sponsor Blue Moon Brewing Co.
They plan to work with local artists to recreate the lobby's original murals, the work of a Russian painter, but the renovation is also adding distinctly contemporary elements, such as an incandescent blue sushi bar overlooking the main lobby.
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Even some Democrats (such as the fiscally conservative Blue Dog coalition of congressmen) see Obamacare as a millstone around their necks.
In Hong Kong, Chau expects that falling interest rates will help stocks as a whole, especially such blue-chip property developers as Cheung Kong and Sun Hung Kai Properties, both Chau holdings, since lower borrowing costs should stimulate demand for property. (Fair disclosure: Through cef Holdings, Cheung Kong is an investor in Chau's employer, TAL CEF Global Asset Management).
Its directors and advisers hail from tech giants such as Texas Instruments, Blue Cross Blue Shield and several major research hospitals in the region.
Executives of such blue chips as United Airlines and Salomon Smith Barney were at the White House this spring toasting President Clinton's one-year-old Welfare to Work Partnership and saying their welfare hires had better retention rates than workers found from other sources.
This will be the tip of the iceberg as more evolved models such as that of Strategic Blue, which allows for trading of future cloud usage across multiple Cloud Service Providers, emerge and create a worldwide market able to factor into the price of cloud highly advanced calculations such as anticipated cloud datacenter build outs and varying demand for cloud.
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The company bought businesses such as Hugo Boss, originally a German menswear firm, and signed deals with blue-chip Italian designers such as Gianfranco Ferre.
Besides a rookie campaign that began in 1986 where Ozzie Smith and Cal Ripken, Jr. were the obvious defensive and offensive gold standards for major league shortstops, ball players such as Tony Fernandez of the Toronto Blue Jays in the American League was garnering accolades and praise as a premiere defensive shortstop as well.
Not in blue states such as California and certainly not in swing states such as North Carolina.
As such, traders discounted blue skies ahead on a daily basis and bought each and every dip.
The Dow Jones industrial average, on which blue chips such as Coca-Cola are listed, ended 1.6% lower at 10, 462.65.
Mahendra Chavan, who lives in the western city of Pune, said he lost money on IPOs and now is focused on blue chips such as Hindustan Unilever Ltd.
If Christie held up under the pressure, he would appeal to working class Democrats (a group where Obama is already weak) and put into play Blue states such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
But even in many of the so-called reliable blue states such as New Jersey, for example, Obama's white share of support dropped from 2008 -- losing white voters there by 13 points in 2012.
His boosters say his moderate social views could lure swing voters and bring big blue states such as New York and California back into play, at least forcing the Democrats to spend time and money defending them.
The committee was taking evidence on the Scottish government's passported benefits consultation , covering benefits such as free school meals and blue badge parking and how they will continue to operate in Scotland after changes are made to the UK benefit system.
The right loves to hand out tax credits that encourage procreation and marriage, while the left looks for opportunities to deduct "green" initiatives alongside the deduction of taxes paid to city and state (remember, blue states such as California and New York are among the most taxed).
Leading up to today's launch, Nokia, Samsung and HTC have announced an array of phones for Windows Phone 8, featuring large, vivid screens, new camera innovations, NFC capabilities, and bold colors such as red, yellow, blue, black and white.2 Each phone offers unique features and comes in a variety of price points.
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Residents in big urban blue states, such as California and New York, will be socked hardest.
David Bishop, who heads micromechanics research, plied such blue-sky pursuits as superconductivity a dozen years ago.
The same trend is at play in other high-tax, high-cost blue states, such as Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey.
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