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This substitute cost nine dollars a pound, whereas real heparin, the real ingredient, cost 900 dollars a pound.
We're going to keep hollowing them out, because you, inch for inch and pound for pound and dollar for dollar, none of you could squeeze revenue out of that space like the Boston Shuffler could.
So this weighs a little more than a tenth of a pound.
Today, we can produce virgin metal from ore at a cost of less than 50 cents a pound.
They can save lives because this stuff can absorb up to 12 times as much crash energy per pound as steel.
Pound for pound, its immediate impact is far greater than carbon dioxide.
And we said to that public meeting in Todmorden, look, let's imagine that our town is focused around three plates: a community plate, the way we live our everyday lives; a learning plate, what we teach our kids in school and what new skills we share amongst ourselves; and business, what we do with the pound in our pocket and which businesses we choose to support.
It's as much a part of your stress response as the adrenaline that makes your heart pound.
I lost about a pound a week for about 40 weeks.
A spider also has great secrets, because spiders' silk thread is pound for pound stronger than steel but completely elastic.
In comparison to my pound of flesh, where you can see the light goes everywhere.
And so your heart starts to pound, Your pupils dilate, your airways open up, and you are ready to either fight that bear or run from the bear.
They could pound them or whack them.
Every day I would pile up the change on the top of my money box, and when that pile reached a pound, I would drop it in and cross off one of the 100 squares I'd drawn on a piece of paper.
And these robots consume about 100 watts per pound.
When you go to the grocery store, you don't go to the deli counter and ask for 43 slices of salami, you buy your salami by the pound.
In 1453, the Turks brought their super weapon: a monster cannon that could fire a 15 hundred pound stone ball over a mile.
5, 10, 15 pounds of wild fish are regularly killed to bring one pound of shrimp to the market.
When they first started farming salmon, it could take as many as six pounds of wild fish to make a single pound of salmon.
But in any case, credit to the industry, it has lowered the amount of fish per pound of salmon.
To bring a pound of mussels to market is about a thirtieth of the carbon as required to bring beef to market.
And what kind of super socks and super shoes is he putting on his feet to withstand all the friction that results from dragging his 5,400 pound body against the road when he runs?
On the ship's bow, a massive catapult would be able to fire 180 pound stone missiles.
A cow needs to eat eight to nine pounds of feed and drink almost 8,000 liters of water to create just one pound of meat.
You can farm one pound of fish with just one pound of feed, and depending on species, even less.
And half a block away from janitor man, there's a group of good-for-nothings who don't know no better, waiting for janitor man with rusted bicycle chains and imitation Louisville Sluggers, and if they don't find a cent on him, which they won't, they'll just pound at him till the muscles in their arms start burning, till there's no more teeth to crack out.
But listen: experts who are serious about disease reduction recommend that adults eat just over half a pound of meat per week.
Half a pound.
We no longer dig ditches by hand, pound tools out of wrought iron or do bookkeeping using actual books.
They consume more coca leaves than any human population, half a pound per man, per day.
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