Norris also figured out how to achieve his sound effect using only a dinner-plate-thick transducer instead of bulky speaker cones.

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Also among the confiscated tools of the trade were 10 stampers, which are dinner-plate size master disks that can each produce 140, 000 to 150, 000 CDs.

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The savviest nonprofits won't cross their fingers and hope the next generation finds them, they'll use new tools and new game-theory to reach supporters, quickly leaving behind the gross inefficiencies of expensive dinner-plate events.

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This weekend, at Fred's farm, there is a five-cents-a-plate fund-raising dinner.

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The cost drops 30% on a Mediterranean hand-painted dinner plate if you get a painter to use a sponge cut in the shape of a leaf instead of laboring over brush strokes.

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I've served my own cancer apprenticeship - I had a tumour the size of a dinner plate buried in my chest.

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At the dinner table, he takes her plate and cuts her food into bite-size pieces.

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Materials to bring - floristry scissors and your own container (the size of a dinner plate and at least 2 inches in depth).

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Head to the seaside district of Al Mina for a fresh fish dinner, then top it off with a plate of sticky pastries at locally renowned sweet-maker, Rafaat Hallab and Sons, on Rue Tall.

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