Word: aluminum
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...already looking to China as a market where they can both buy and sell. "Nobody can stop the Chinese anymore," says Lucio Zamň, one of the few remaining successful manufacturers of office chairs in the district. Zamň has been able to cut expenses by building chairs using imported Chinese aluminum bases, which cost 40% less than Italian ones...
...wrong: the SLVR (pronounced sliver) is a sexy phone, designed for people who aren't into flip phones but are jealous of RAZR owners. It has RAZR-style anodized aluminum sides, a thickness (thinness?) of 11.5mm, and gently raised number keys, set in plastic that has been through a process called "vacuum metallization...
Last year, after tinkering with his boots, he discovered that inserting a composite - as opposed to aluminum or plastic - lift under the sole gave him a better feel on the snow and better performance. Then he did something really crazy: he shared the information with everyone, including competitors. His equipment team flipped, but in the Miller school of philosophy this makes complete sense. Otherwise, he says, "I'm maintaining an unfair advantage over my competitors knowingly, for the purpose of beating them alone. Not for the purpose of enjoying it more or skiing better. To me that's ethically unsound...
...since e-waste, of which plastic is a significant part, is accumulating rapidly--choking landfills and creating toxic plumes when incinerated. Some 100 billion pounds of plastic are used in the U.S. annually, yet only 2% to 4% of complex plastics are recycled, compared with 95% for steel and aluminum. That's because it's difficult to identify and sort engineered plastic by type and grade. At its 50,000-sq.-ft. Richmond plant, MBA figured out how to do it more affordably and efficiently and on a mass scale. In November, MBA opened the world's largest commercial-scale...
...Drugs, Basketball, & Rap” falls prey to the same fate as the “message” tracks on “The Beautiful Struggle.” Instead of sensitively presenting the listener with his profound thoughts, he panders to pop convention with trite choruses and aluminum beats.Talib adopts enough contradictory guises on this album to make a schizophrenic blush. “The Beast,” “Who Got It,” and “Roll Off Me” attempt to roll up the message of KRS-ONE?...