The material offers a key advantage, though, once installed: "If you hang paintings over grasscloth, you can really hide the nail holes, " said Ms. Lydon.

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The Sport has the advantage on material quality.

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For our purposes, we decided to define a tool as a material device that provides an advantage in accomplishing a task.

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This material, he says, has the advantage that its nanotubes are semiconductors regardless of their size and shape.

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And since then, it has been plowing money into the business, taking advantage of low labor and material costs.

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In the cases prosecutors are able to win, the accused are most often company outsiders who come across undisclosed material information and use it to their advantage.

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To take full advantage of the immense body of material accumulated during this ambitious project, UNESCO has recently launched a new online initiative to compile and disseminate this valuable knowledge for the benefit of academic, cultural and artistic professionals as well as the general public.

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The advantage of this approach is that it retains the basic fibre-plus-matrix structure of the material.

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