Panda then bought some old metal-stamping equipment from a plant that General Motors was shutting down in Ohio.
Water and sewage networks would be adapted to deal with flooding while old metal gas pipes would be replaced.
Back then each of us in the business section was assigned a tall, old metal gym locker in the adjoining Paramount building to store our stuff.
It may be a further stretch of the definition of biergarten, but the best beer bar in the city, Spuyten Duyvil in Williamsburg, does have a lovely, shaded backyard with trees and old metal lawn furniture.
Everything was covered with a thick layer of grime, from the old fashioned metal light fittings to door handles and banisters.
The typical at-home trader is still more like Jack Scheib, a 63-year-old scrap metal broker in Dallas who took up serious options trading three years ago, and who I was set to feature in a story about retirees who are trading.
But arteries often heal around the old, bare metal stents in a process called restinosis, re-clogging them and necessitating a second procedure.
Now, a diverse set of bands have re-invigorated the scene, inspired in part by the heavy, virtuoso playing of old-school metal groups like Led Zeppelin and Metallica, the biggest metal group of the '90s.
Left in ruins, the old brick exterior has metal walkways that ascend to a cupola with fine views over Guanabara Bay and downtown Rio.
Colorful beaded necklaces dangle from the branches of brown-paper trees that line the walls, and old-fashioned black metal streetlamps line the hallway.
In fact, initially, they designed their new lines of photo typesetters on the old, hot-metal architecture and tried to incorporate elements of the hot-metal process into the phototypesetting.
Toby Ziegler's exhibition "The Cripples" (until Oct. 20) in Q-Park in Old Burlington Street features five massive metal sculptures, inspired by Bruegel's painting.
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Now, the 22-year-old man has plastic eye sockets, metal rods in his legs and a rebuilt nose.
Old-fashioned planetarium projectors used a metal sphere, pierced with thousands of holes and illuminated from within, to mimic the starry sky.
Mr. Morell says he'll work out to any old-school rap or hard-core metal.
Whereas the old Transformer line was marked by its spun metal lids, this has a unibody polycarbonate lid, done up in white.
"A huge log that took four people to lift has been put in the pen for scratching and clambering over, a buoy has been suspended on a chain from a metal chain and there is an old tyre to attack, " said a spokesperson for the Born Free Foundation.
Baussan was just 23 years old when he was sold the old-fashioned distiller as a piece of scrap metal.
Hundred-year-old pine trees are snapped in half, crumpled metal signs still lie in the roads and there are simply a ton of houses covered in bright blue plastic.
Thousands went to work in the old buildings that lined these streets, forging the metal that built our trains and our ships and our cars and our skyscrapers.
Last December's Christie's auction in Los Angeles featured one lot that seemed irresistible: a poster for a film of a concert by Blue Oyster Cult and Black Sabbath, two out-of-work heavy-metal rock bands that still stubbornly sell old records to adoring fans.
And I write as someone who has spent a number of years dealing with scrap metal including, would you believe it, old nuclear scrap.
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But then they would melt down the old and reissue them debauched with increasing portions of less precious metal alloys.
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She applied a vibrating massager and a bag of frozen peas to the arm of her 7-year-old son Max, then rolled over his skin a small metal wheel used by neurologists to test sensitivity.
When Dawn Giugliano woke up from an hour-long nap on a beach in Puerto Rico last year, the 27-year-old Long Islander claims she got quite a surprise: The metal ring attaching the cups of her Victoria's Secret bikini top had seared a mark in her chest.
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In the modern world, we make most of our pots out of metal and plastic, but we still use plain-old pottery for everyday items, from coffee mugs to dinner plates.
Using wires, pieces of metal sheeting and circuit boards, artist Peter McFarlane transforms old circuit boards into amazing computer-age fossils that somehow look prehistoric.
There, among 12-foot high stacks of old oscilloscopes and signal-conditioning gear, Williams points to a clunky black metal box about the size of an underwear drawer.
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