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Mexico and the U.S. share, what is geopolitically referred to as a 'low-friction border.'

Amanda Feilding: Mexico's Voices Unite Amanda Feilding 2011

In Sport mode the CT is about as agile as you could expect for a 3,200-pound front-drive car with 138 hp and low-friction tires on 17-inch wheels.

At Least It's a Lexus Dan Neil 2011

Among some of the incremental solutions: more-efficient tires, low-friction engine lubricants and added gears.

Baby Steps to Drive Auto Fuel Savings Stephen Power 2010

Among some of the incremental solutions: more-efficient tires, low-friction engine lubricants and added gears.

Baby Steps to Drive Auto Fuel Savings Stephen Power 2010

Among some of the incremental solutions: more-efficient tires, low-friction engine lubricants and added gears.

Baby Steps to Drive Auto Fuel Savings Stephen Power 2010

Orbea has worked with Gore to make cable guides specific to Gore low-friction RideOn cables.

Tour de France tech: The new Orbea Orca 2010

The unintended result of that compliance: Those same exporters are increasingly likely to be targeted by smugglers, who look to piggyback their contraband on legal cargo that makes low-friction border crossings, according to law enforcement officials.

Doing Business in the Time of Mexican Drug Chaos 2009

Its slick, low-friction surface had been designed to simulate the gravitational effects of moving on the moon.

Building a Better Robot Robert P. Crease 2009

Kit made from sturdy punched cardboard with gold stamping, complete with all accessories including laser cut aluminium plates, low-friction plastic axle bearings and spring steel bent wire.

Boing Boing 2007

Other factors are the loss of physical form (intangibles generally seem less valuable than tangible things), the low-friction nature of the Internet (things that are easy to get cost less and lose value), and ad-supported new media business models (free things seem less valuable than those that are paid for).

Jonathan Handel: Hollywood Under Siege 2008