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Corning's Gorilla Glass got famous for being the tough, scratch-resistant front screen covering material on Apple's original iPhone.
In the past, the iPhone has used Gorilla Glass to protect its screen (though some believe it may have stopped recently); Apple championed this tech and basically made its maker Corning the default choice for smartphone OEMs looking for a tough, scratch-resistant material to use to protect their screens.
A variation on this is Michael Porter's notion that rigorous domestic regulation provides a comparative advantage and nurtures lean, tough, scratch-your-eyes-out competitors.
He has implemented a tougher scratch rule, which means program numbers -- the means by which a bettor identifies a horse -- can be listed in the handicapper's bible, the preprinted Daily Racing Form.
The iPhone's glass screen is damned tough to scratch – anything that does manage to scratch it surely won't be hindered by a thin sheet of plastic.
"It is especially tough to scratch and claw your way into a game and putting yourself in a position to win.
Others need to have their tough coatings scratched, or scarified, to sprout.
Stop toughing or scratching the mosquito bite, otherwise it will grow bigger.
And its exterior, while tough, can be scratched or marred.
Building an audience from scratch was tough too.
Building a drone's hardware and software from scratch is tough and expensive, but open source drone kits are inflexible.
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