Word: coppers
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...thousands of birds, wildlife and even some endangered species that wildlife experts and activists claim die annually from ingesting spent ammo that gets left in the mountains, prairies, and forests where the hunted species thrive. As an alternative, "get-the-lead-out" advocates want hunters to start using copper, bismuth, tungsten, steel, tin, and other alloys in their bullets...
...that since the agreement sets incentives for customer satisfaction--along with everything else from water quality to sourcing from local and minority-owned enterprises. Veolia's experts, bolstered by local university researchers, pinpointed the problem as stemming from algae blooms in the reservoirs. Precise application of liquid copper sulfate (yum!) took care of that. "When we took over, there were 500 or 600 complaints a year about taste and odor. Now we're down in the range of 30," says Hewitt...
...report of a stolen red velvet jewelry bag valued at $20 that contained a silver tennis bracelet valued at $2,000, a gold & pearl bracelet valued at $100, a pair of white crystal earrings valued at $50, a pair of 14-karat gold earrings valued at $100, a copper and crystal Swarovski earring and necklace set valued at $300, a gold and brown crystal necklace valued at $100, and a silver and gold watch valued...
...reliability as well as the market for getting news over mobile phones. For Alvelda, his experience at the World Economic Forum this year affirmed demand for such services. He says leaders of developing countries recognized MobiTV's potential for bringing information to their communities. "Now they don't lay copper. They put up cell towers," says Alvelda. "It leapfrogs some of the challenges of the past...
...This chain reaction plainly demonstrated the increasingly prominent place China now occupies in the minds of global investors. Its extraordinary economic rise has been a key reason for soaring demand for everything from copper to oil to cars, much to the benefit of multinational and Chinese companies alike. But while investors are right about China's economic importance to the world, they're clearly still confused about how to interpret a decline in Chinese stocks. There's little question that the reaction to China's market swoon was overwrought, and that this is not a replay of 1997. Rarely...