And here is the opening for the next profit niche with a social purpose, says Rory Stear of Freeplay Energy, the company that develops and sells 'wind-up' energy generators best known in the 'wind-up radio'.
There's no doubt singles who make an effort to do financially prudent things--buying homes and opening up retirement accounts early--wind up better off than their married friends.
With its solar panel backed up by a wind-up crank, coupled with excellent speaker quality, large groups of 60 can listen, making it cost effective.
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The firm that he took charge of in 1950 made pianos, mouth-organs and wind-up gramophones.
Seavey's victory came after a dueling sprint against Aliy Zirkle, last year's runner-up, along the frozen, wind-whipped Bering Sea coast toward Nome.
The lime-green devices run on electromotive energy from a wind-up mechanism--thus allowing the machines to be used in areas lacking a regular power supply.
His futuristic concept is called the Nano Vent-Skin (NVS) and the design -- to wrap buildings in an organic lattice skin made up of micro wind turbines -- is radical.
Even Davies, who has been in fine form since manager Owen Coyle took over at the Trotters in January, had given up any hope of making the national team and admitted he thought the news was a "wind-up" at first.
Barrett said Intel was committed to delivering IT access to the developing world, and was helping Sri Lanka Telecom set up south Asia's first long-range WIMAX wireless network, which we're presuming won't be a wind-up system.
Barrett said Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) was committed to delivering IT access to the developing world, and was helping Sri Lanka Telecom set up south Asia's first long-range WIMAX wireless network, which we're presuming won't be a wind-up system.
There is a trick here, which Shelton very nearly pulls off: so artless is her approach, with its ambling conversation and hovering, on-the-spot camerawork, and so generous are her actors (Delmore being the standout) that we wind up half-believing what is, by any standard, a ridiculous conceit.
Value-added metrics wind up punishing perfectly good but not spectacular schools with above-average student bodies.
On two issues, Bush may have opened himself up to second- and third-day stories that could wind up doing him real damage.
While the fires still threatened some 25, 000 homes, the burn rate in the region -- a measure made up of factors like wind speed, humidity and available fuel -- was significantly lower Thursday, a spokeswoman at the California Department of Forestry and Protection said.
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Much of it from Groucho in his wind-up speech - which was deft and neat.
In other words, VCs may ultimately wind-up holding a large number of companies at inflated valuations.
This might look like a wind-up to pound Frey with accusations of contradiction, double-speak, whatever.
Chris Pruett, a developer behind Wind-Up Knight, reports the same 80% piracy rate.
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He's already shamelessly playing up his support for wind-power subsidies in the Hawkeye State.
As we're chatting, penguins are filing past us like a line of wind-up dolls.
Again, much can happen until the election and Perry may wind-up being a footnote in American history.
All of this means that Dell's rivals--from HP to Apple--may wind up being the next ones restructuring.
Mr Jagger, who used a wind-up torch to help a rescue helicopter find him, escaped with a few bruises.
Unfortunately, Bernanke is out of wind-up toys that can stem our deflationary spiral.
"So many sick things have happened, " says Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's leading novelists (A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle).
Commission officials blithely bat these concerns aside, saying that national bank supervisors can agree in advance how to wind up cross-border banks.
This technique dramatically extends the potential of wind-up power, and brings more power-hungry devices, such as the landmine detector, within its scope.
They are making broadcasts of local interest and handing out wind-up radios.
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He observed that the victorious countries were prospering and spending happily, although perhaps not happily enough to buy a wind-up gramophone, however carefully made.
Penk, who carried out hundreds of "wind-up" calls at Capital FM, says the recent tragedy will make it almost impossible for these pranks to continue.
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