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Invest in as many multi-tasking pieces as possible, like a coffee table that doubles as seating and also has built-in storage or a compact drop-leaf table that opens up to a desk or dining table for guests.
Nissan struggled to find customers for its all-electric Leaf compact.
Skeptics have been harsh in their appraisal of Nissan's grand plans for electric cars — which the automaker will begin putting into practice with its all-electric Leaf compact, introduced in Japan on Friday.
It is reputed to be more robust than other clones of the species and is also more compact with maximum leaf lengths of 23 cm.
TOKYO -- Nissan Motor said Thursday that it would begin building its Leaf electric compact car in Britain in early 2013, making the country its third global production site for the zero-emission vehicle.
Other efforts to improve traits in ornamental plants include the production of dwarf and compact plants and enhanced leaf color.
Conventionally, several indicators, such as the conversion of the rosette leaf phenotypes from compact, curled and dark-green elongated, the inhibition and promotion of the root and hypocotyl growth, respectively, the transcriptional inhibition of CPD expression, and the BL-induced accumulation of dephosphorylated BES1, have been used to denote normal BR sensitivity.
When used as ground cover for landscaping, plants with a compact growth habit and broad leaf appearance (in our case FR, HB, IS) may be of advantage, particularly because their biomass production was not negatively affected by the salt treatment (Fig. 2).
Your flame-orange skin like a fluttering maple leaf in autumn, your compact body like a roll of belly fat.
