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It leaves Michelin hostage to rubber's fortunes at least until a major step-up in production capacity next year allows it to take fuller advantage of strong emerging-market tire demand.

Rubber Prices Sap Michelin Rerating Matthew Curtin 2011

Bladder Free refers to the lack of a hydration bladder, while the UCTBFHD catheter dwells in the rubber's anatomical bladder.

BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2009

KLEIN: Yes, but I also said that it didn't mean all that much, that 100-days pieces are a kind of flimsy journalistic conceit, and the rubber's really going to meet the road when he lays out an agenda.

CNN Transcript May 10, 2009 2009

KLEIN: Yes, but I also said that it didn't mean all that much, that 100-days pieces are a kind of flimsy journalistic conceit, and the rubber's really going to meet the road when he lays out an agenda.

CNN Transcript May 10, 2009 2009

And so it's somewhere along the line, the rubber's got to meet the road and probably increase taxes.

CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2009 2009

That's really where the rubber's hitting the road these days, is at the banks.

CNN Transcript Jan 9, 2008 2008

And when the rubber's hitting the road here, he's all of a sudden gotten very squishy about it and tried to put the onus on making a deal with McCain supposedly on some of these shadowy groups, like the 527 groups.

Mrs. Clinton's Alamo 2008

He was dumbfounded because he had thought that rubber's great flaw couldn't be solved, and he saw that it could, and he was dumbfounded.

Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century 2002

But what was discovered in the 20th century was that rubber's actually not just that one unit of C5H8, but it's 20,000 of those strung together in a macro-molecule.

Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century 2002

BECK: Now, I'm a statistician who wants to test the hypothesis that the reason that the presidential undervote is higher with the Votomatics than it is with the optical scanners is because the rubber's too hard on the left side underneath the president; the plastic template is scratched; the little piles of chads underneath, and all those things are stopping people from voting, and it's peculiar to the left side of the Votomatic.

CNN Transcript - Special Event: Leon County Circuit Court Hears Arguments in Election 2000 Contest - December 2, 2000 2000