• Future contracts are meant to be used as hedges, which means they are being bought and sold by people with intimate information about the product.

    FORBES: How Is A Movie Like An Onion?

  • Strong words indeed, and ones that are sure to be used as a motivational tool in the Welsh dressing room.

    BBC: Ireland v Wales

  • Oodle already includes eBay listings, but Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has told Craig Donato to steer clear of his site's listings, saying they are not meant to be used as commodities for commercial purposes.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • We are seeing what used to be, as we noted earlier, the Mecca for manufacturing, and that is this country turned out almost everything to a degree that there was world dominance, and over the decades, we have seen that shift and change, yet we haven't seen America change with that shift.

    NPR: U.S. Factory Workers Competing in a Global Market

  • Discharge delays and infections immediately following surgeries are both half as frequent as they used to be.

    FORBES: Special Surgery

  • Another debate currently raging in the console market is if graphics are even still as important as they used to be.

    FORBES: AMD Claims the Next Xbox Can Render Avatar-like Graphics

  • The boards, made by Beachbeat in St Agnes, are able to be used if the owner wants, but as they are now believed to be the most expensive surfboards in the world, it is likely they may not be splashed with sea water.

    BBC: Buyers splash out on Hirst boards

  • Many new funds that have launched in the past 10 years are high-cost products that are designed for speculation and to be used as part of a trading strategy.

    FORBES: Educating a Nation of Financial Illiterates

  • The counter shop lives on, seemingly now mainly run in Britain by enterprising Indians and Pakistanis who have found a gap in the market and are every bit as polite as the assistants who used to be behind Sainsbury's marble counters.

    ECONOMIST: Lord Sainsbury

  • On the plus side, however, Kenyans are no longer as scared of their rulers as they used to be.

    ECONOMIST: If only the president were more vigorous

  • Record stores are no longer as relevant to music listeners as they used to be, which is evidenced by the closing of the iconic Tower Records in Hollywood in 2006.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Pew surveys of general knowledge suggest that young people are about as well (or badly) informed as they used to be.

    ECONOMIST: Media

  • The effects of water and ice, too, are likely to be intermittent, and to trail off a bit as the reserves on top of the mountain are used up.

    ECONOMIST: Volcanoes and air travel: Small eruption in Iceland | The

  • Things are not as bad as they used to be: it took a century for Australia's states to adopt the same railway gauge, and the rules for road haulage have only fairly recently been unified.

    ECONOMIST: The limits to growth

  • Even those jobs that demand physical labor -- manufacturing, for example -- are much less grueling than they used to be, as electrically powered machines do the lifting and shifting that used to consume human energy.

    CNN: Why we're getting fatter -- and what to do about it

  • Analysts say that fishing boats are of particular importance to pirates because they can be used as floating bases from which to launch further attacks.

    CNN: Seychelles' gunboats keep pirates from 'blue gold'

  • To be sure, increasingly capacious chemistry and materials are used to improve the capabilities of batteries such as switching from carbon-based anodes to silicon-based ones.

    FORBES: Tesla Debacle Highlights Need For New EV Battery Technology

  • Two of the four S-92 helicopters to be used in the contract are at Inverness Airport as part of the training of crews for the coastguard work.

    BBC: 'Latest technology' for new coastguard helicopters

  • The report offers this as a definition to be used when the police and local authorities are logging reports of alleged racist incidents, either as a prelude to investigating them or to collect statistics on the incidence of racism.

    ECONOMIST: Debating Lawrence | The

  • He will also speak about social networking sites and how they are used to target young people as victims of potential abuse, but also how they can be used by professionals as a means of educating.

    BBC: Children at risk of web predators

  • They would actually have to be advised that they are under no obligation to speak to interrogators, that if they do speak their statements can be used against them as evidence in court, and that they are entitled to have a lawyer - paid for by the American people - present and assisting them at all times during questioning.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A war to the death

  • "The top shows are not concentrated on Thursday nights as they used to be, " says David Poltrack, chief research officer at CBS Corp.

    WSJ: No Longer 'Must-See TV'

  • Are those skills really as important as they used to be?

    BBC: Teacher training comes under fire

  • But some are also thought to harbour water ice, which could be used as a raw material for the manufacture of rocket propellant or even breathable air.

    BBC: New venture 'to mine asteroids'

  • Populations in the West and Japan are no longer pyramid-shaped as they used to be, with a big base of younger people and few pensioners at the top.

    ECONOMIST: Time to grow up | The

  • Russia's foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, has alleged that the weapons inspectors are being put under pressure to provide evidence that could be used as a pretext for war, or to provoke the Iraqis so much that they get themselves thrown out.

    ECONOMIST: Ready for war

  • Portable, inexpensive and environmentally friendly, according to Barber, Reef Balls can be built anywhere and are used to mimic and rehabilitate all forms of oceanic reefs, such as mangrove, oyster and coral reefs.

    CNN: Heroes: Reef restoration provides passion for diver

  • Soyuz capsules are used to ferry crew to and from the orbiting platform, and enough vehicles are always present so that they can be used as "lifeboats" if an emergency arises.

    BBC: International Space Station in debris scare

  • Imagine that you are a teenager using social media as it is supposed to be used.

    FORBES: How Not To Use Twitter The Dell Way

  • "They do not like the fact that we are not fat and sloppy as shoppers as we used to be for the taxpayers, " he said.

    CNN: Republican Medicare plan short on detail

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