But now when some of those trucks leave the plant, they're carrying new vacuums with them.
Being the only superpower puts a special responsibility on America to effectively fill deadly vacuums in critical areas.
Finally, freeways create border vacuums with high crime and low economic activity.
Curiosity has many "mouths" to taste test rocks or dust it vacuums up -- really, to analyze them chemically.
The Oreck Corporation makes vacuums in Long Beach, Mississippi, where many of its 600 workers lost everything in the storm.
The company has suffered plenty of setbacks, including increased competition from Dyson vacuums, Hurricane Katrina sacking its plant in Gulfport, Miss.
His hand-held vacuums are outfitted with blazing-fast digital motors, his washing machines (no longer in production) with Formula One race-car bearings.
They also manufacture the now famous Roomba that automatically vacuums your home.
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"Partly, this is a consequence of the Arab Spring and the power vacuums and ungoverned spaces that have sprung up in its wake, " it said.
In Venezuela such power vacuums have often been filled by the army.
He summons sumptuous sounds from his battered guitar, and writes brilliant songs when he isn't fixing Hoover vacuums in his father's Dickensian shop.
For a start, says Bernt Aardal, professor of political science at Oslo University, Mr Hagen's party is the one that vacuums up voter discontent.
In the intervening years the design, and variety of designs, of their vacuums has improved and I might be quite happy to own one today.
Ms. Brickman gives a warning before she vacuums or makes popcorn.
Vacuums with HEPA filters prevent dust from escaping as you clean.
But closer examination of the international environment also reveals that leadership vacuums are beginning to emerge on a wide range of critical issues looming on the horizon.
Third, the failed states in Africa and the oxymoronic governments in many African nations create serious politico-military vacuums that terrorists groups can fill and exploit for nefarious ends.
Vacuuming tends to stir up allergens without necessarily removing them, and can actually increase the number of airborne allergens, even when newer vacuums containing HEPA filters are used.
You can buy beautiful blenders, retro washing machines and vacuums that look like objects d'art from the space museum, but AC design has been frozen since the Summer of Sam.
You may have seen Mr. Oreck in TV commercials over the years, comically demonstrating the power of his vacuums by sucking a toupee from his scalp or bowling balls from the floor.
This newfangled approach to insulation, dubbed airgaps, creates vacuums that enable the substantial boost in speed, and the self assembling process is reportedly "already integrated" into IBM's manufacturing line in New York.
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Bottom line: If you are like most folks and live in a home that has things like stairs, beds and corners, these vacuums are not going to replace the tried and true up-right anytime soon.
Remote-controlled cameras are nothing new -- heck, some even ride atop robotic vacuums -- but this Android smartphone-powered device delivers quite a bit of versatility in a petite package with a reasonable price tag to boot.
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The Lighthouse will communicate with Roomba via an infrared sensor to contain it in one room until it vacuums the area completely (aka: completes its mission) and then it will move on to the next room and so forth.
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Essentially, the process forms "trillions of holes to create insulating vacuums around the miles of nano-scale wires packed next to each other inside each computer chip, " which should aid electrical current in flowing around 35-percent faster while it eats up about 15-percent less energy.
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