Word: alloying
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Finally Hart arrived. "Hello," the candidate called out to the nation's future. "How you doing?" The press surrounded him as he crouched to see what the children were making. But the kids couldn't make the potato block prints anymore, as they were almost crushed by an alloy of politicians, notepads and cameras...
Despite its far-reaching staff, the roots of the Ivy Sound are at Penn--the source of all its editors and production staff. Frankel's own roommates Devin A. Schain, Steve B. Alloy, and Steven B. Gould hold the posts of general manager, operations manager, and business manager, respectively...
Wire eyeglass sidepieces that pop back to their pristine form when dipped in hot water. Brassieres that "remember" their original shape while tumbling in the clothes dryer. Both innovations are by-products of a special metal alloy with so-called shape memory, developed nearly 25 years ago by the U.S. military and now reaching consumers...
More intimate use of the alloy is made by Japan's Wacoal Corp., which last week began marketing its Memory Wire bras in the U.S. for about $30. The new product avoids a difficulty common to many regular wire bras, which can become twisted and more rigid after each washing. What next for the wonder metal? Says a manufacturer of the alloy: "A dented automobile fender that could be returned to new with a blow dryer sounds great, but it would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce...
...company's most publicized environmental problems have involved pollution. In the late 1960s, environmentalists charged that a Union Carbide iron-alloy plant in Alloy, W Va., was "the smokiest factory in the world." Since then, the company has reduced smokestack emissions at its factories and adopted measures to ensure the safe disposal of chemical wastes...