Estimates vary that anywhere between 300 and 3,000 illegal panners still risk their lives scouring the shallow earth mines, where many of the diamonds are of low quality and of industrial use only.
The district is zoned for commercial and industrial use only, with some exceptions made for fewer than a dozen grandfathered rental units like those at 675 Hudson Street, or the hip Hotel Gansevoort on Ninth Avenue, since hotels are allowed in commercial zones.
Of 700 acres zoned for commercial and industrial use, only one substantial site (20 acres) is unbuilt.
The leading organizations for the measure have names like "Free Hemp in Alaska" and "Hemp 2000," championing a cousin of marijuana that has many industrial uses and only a tiny fraction of the drug's psychoactive properties.
However, a suitable endo-1,4-β-mannanase for industrial use involves not only a high enzymatic hydrolysis activity; but thermo- and acidic-stability are also needed as many industrial bioprocesses require the use of enzymes at low pH and high temperature conditions to prevent contamination by other microbes [ 10– 10].
When domestic and industrial use of freshwater only account for 8% and 22% accordingly, compared to 70% by agriculture, it may seem that individuals and business are relatively powerless.
"You would think that this approval would have been easy since this potato has no seeds, no wild relatives to cross with in Europe, and only industrial use," said Ralf-Michael Schmidt, vice president of BASF.
Circus Space occupies the old Shoreditch Generating Company headquarters, and in Marshgate Lane the little circus community that emerged around the frozen fish warehouses and assorted marginal industrial uses had not only accommodation but also performance and training space in the tall, old buildings.
The only important industrial use of ketene itself is its reaction with acetic acid to form acetic anhydride.
Current zoning for the six miles of waterfront allow for only marine industrial use, although offices are allowed on the upper floors of some buildings.
In a demonstration before European competition regulators on Friday, RealNetworks, maker of a music- and video-playing computer program called Real One, showed how a little-known version of Windows -- Windows XP Embedded, which is licensed only for industrial use -- can work without Microsoft Media Player attached, three people at the closed-door hearing said.
