Even before any redundancies were announced, staff were leaving work this week with their belongings stuffed in cardboard boxes and plastic bags, preparing themselves for the inevitable.
ON a clear, 13-degree December morning at 8,000 feet above sea level, hundreds of snowshoers are assembled around a white plastic tent, preparing to race one another up and down the side of a snow-covered mountain.
Perkus had done no more than rustle at the plastic curtain, preparing to hoist himself from the tub, when the divider was nudged aside by a white grinning face — slavering rubbery pink lips and dinosaur teeth hinged to a squarish ridged skull nearly the size of his own, this craned forward by a neck and shoulders of pulsing and twitching muscle.
The very name seemed an oxymoron as I peeled off the shrink-wrapped plastic and prepared to put what I must hope is the world's only board game about mutual funds through its paces.
Ceramic shell moulds were made on ABS plastic patterns (prepared by FDM process) using primary slurry and fused-silica sand as stucco.
A unit constructed of clear plastic was prepared so that the arrangement of magnets could be seen and to demonstrate that the device operated without external power sources.
For the Morris water maze task, a pool (90 cm diameter, 45 cm height) made of black-colored plastic was prepared, and was filled with water (20±1°C) that was rendered opaque with nontoxic blue paint.
When the brewery recently ran out of plastic wrap while preparing an order, he knew where he could turn for help.
ON a busy section of East 59th Street in Manhattan, a half block from Bloomingdale's, two plastic surgeons are preparing to open a new kind of cosmetic medical entity: a Botox-only storefront office.
A scene from the clip which depicts Beyoncé preparing plastic surgery, consuming diet pills and vomiting, was initially excluded from the video's final cut.
