Drafts of the desired images are brushed onto extremely thin paper and scrutinized for errors before they are transferred onto blocks.
Scanning instead of typing might work since most space-food packages have bar codes, but some are stamped on shiny curved surfaces while others are printed on thin crinkled paper wrapped around freeze-dried items.
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Interior walls that look like hardwood paneling are in fact made of paper-thin wood veneer on top of Nomex honeycomb, a lightweight paper-and-resin material normally found in jet airplanes.
At this stage of my life -- a senior citizen, as they say politely -- I'm also quite happy to believe in miracles, assuming that the membrane between life and death is paper thin.
They speak up passionately on behalf of the pigs penned in the industrial farms whose skins are paper thin and bleed at the slightest touch and whose legs snap under the weight of their steroid-gorged bodies.
It does everything from breeding new seeds and cattle, to creating ultra-thin edible wrapping paper for foodstuffs that changes colour when the food goes off, to running a nanotechnology laboratory creating biodegradable ultra-strong fabrics and wound dressings.
Their strategic intent was to develop paper-thin solar sheets for a wide range of applications.
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Paper-thin strips of real nail polish that stretch to fit the shape of your nail.
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But the lack of investment showed, the paper looked thin and circulation continued to slide.
As your narrator becomes increasingly unreliable, the world around you starts to feel paper-thin, almost illusory.
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But Merck-Medco's margins remained paper-thin even as its revenues grew 12-fold, crimping the margins of the entire company.
Even if Amazon does become profitable, its margins are likely to be paper-thin.
Profit margins, at 1% to 5%, are as paper-thin as the finest carpaccio.
With Jeremy Lin out, point guard becomes paper-thin, meaning Douglas will get huge minutes if he can contribute at all.
Newly designed Australian army vests will be equipped with paper-thin, flexible and lightweight solar-cells with very high power-to-weight ratios.
When slicing the radishes and onions, a mandolin or very sharp knife is the best tool for getting paper-thin rounds and semi-circles.
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His California Bowl takes on brown rice and avocado in the form of paper-thin, crispy-does-it "chips" (think papadum) and a creamy-smooth dip.
Shaved into paper-thin rounds, spring beets provide an earthy, sharp flavor that's different from the musky sweetness we have come to expect of the vegetable.
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If digital photography sales bomb, Plaza Create will end up with a lot of costly assets that do nothing to boost its paper-thin 1.1% net profit margin.
Spain appeared remarkably relaxed, playing like a team that had already qualified, but in reality the qualification picture was on a paper-thin edge for most of the night.
The meal is often finished with a traditional sweet - such as a sticky rice cake in the shape of a purple blossom, with paper-thin slices of pear shaped like leaves.
Last year her intelligence got a whole lot better when the show organizers agreed to outfit each attendee with a name tag that includes a paper-thin wireless chip encoded with a 24-digit number.
Newspapers have been replaced by foldable, paper-thin displays and small robots that mimic insects and other animals (spiders, in the case of the movie) are used by law enforcement agencies to explore hard-to-reach spaces and track down suspects.
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The trick was to cut small quantities of meat into paper-thin slices, season them with condiments, preserves, and spices, add whatever vegetables you could grow or barter, and keep adding until you arrived at a dish so tasty that you forgot how little meat was in it.
About as thin as a single sheet of paper, so consumers will end up with lighter electronics.
Now each layer of plastic is as thin as a sheet of copy paper, resulting in smooth printed prototypes.
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