Because primaries tend to be bulky, especially in diameter, plutonium is the fissile material of choice for pits, with beryllium reflectors.

It's made not of a bulky tube, but of a thin layer of a semiconductor material that serves as the gamma detector.

The Indian stove is clearly a work in progress it is too bulky and not durable enough to survive the rigors of an African village.

The calves were bulky blocks of metal with pipes bolted together for the ankles and a yellow rubber foot with the raised rubber line from the toe to the ankle to look like a vein.

But the problem was that the gamma detectors were these huge, bulky tubes, and they were filled with these scintillating crystals, and you just couldn't get them close enough around the breast to find small tumors.

In the personal computing business which moved from the bulky Apple II to the sleek and intelligent iPhone 4s (announced the day before Steve s death) Steve was the only true showman of what is now one of the world s biggest industries.

Less investment will mean less capital deepening.

There would be more democracy, less oppression more freedom, less terrorism more growth, less poverty.

Less effort, you're less persistent, and so on.

Sami started hearing from Layla less and less.

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego.

It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious.

So, traffic keeps flowing, so that means less braking, which means less accelerating, less gas and less pollution, less time wasted, and that partly accounts for Europe's better efficiency than we have in the United States.

Here one encounters less collective hope and less individual fear.

There are Tunisians who want less rights, less freedom and less democracy to fight those who oppose freedom and democracy

China s technology inroads are usually less dramatic, but no less telling.

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This sterility and inertia make Europe less and less interesting for Americans.

Currently in Haiti we are speaking less and less of security problems.

Multilateralism may have to be less comprehensive and less formal, at least initially.

Trial by jury, which was infrequent anyway, is being seen less and less.

Its youth are less conformist and more demanding, less passive and more pluralistic.

Less noise, please.

Less noise, please.

The threat they pose may be less dramatic, but it is no less pernicious.

This time, however, the report is less clear, less reassuring. Who were the protesters?

For a president bent on implementing reforms, less can be more less aggressiveness and less ego. But can a man act against his deepest nature?

A little less dominance may mean a little less anxiety about Americanization, fewer complaints about American arrogance, and less intensity in the anti American backlash.

Fiscal consolidation means less public spending. And less spending means less upward pressure on prices which is the last thing Europe needs in a deflationary environment.

As a result, there is less Union in Europe and less Europe in the world.

Gore s co recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize is less known, but no less deserving.

It is considered less risky because some of its assets are less risky than others.

Less of an Ass

Europe deserves no less.

Nothing less will do.

More Trade, Less Hunger

New World, Less Order

Democracy demands no less.

As a result, Hirschman looks less and less the maverick that he fancied himself to be.

The US spends less in the public sector, but it taxes even less than it spends.

The bottom line is that, despite industry rhetoric, drug companies are growing less and less innovative.

In Europe, meanwhile, there is undeniably less collective hope and probably a little less individual fear.

As each institution is eroded, there is less and less left in the way of alternatives.

From the mid 1970's on, however, Americans continued working more or less the same number of hours, while Western Europeans began working less and less each year.

So office sound is a huge area, and incidentally, noise in offices has been shown to make people less helpful, less enjoy their teamwork, and less productive at work.