** Dow Corning announces that it will stop manufacturing silicone breast implants.

Two typical examples: Left-Krytox, a fluoroether-based grease ; Right-a silicone-based high vacuum grease by Dow Corning.

** Dow Corning, a multinational corporation headquartered in Midland, Michigan, USA

* Dow Corning

Dow Corning Silicones, Evonik Industries, Momentive Performance Materials, Milliken and Company ( SiVance Specialty Silicones ), Shin-Etsu Silicones, Wacker Chemie, Bluestar Silicones, JNC Corporation, Wacker Asahikasei Silicone, and Dow Corning Toray represent the collective membership of these organizations.

The Dow Corning Corporation and Chemical Bank are also headquartered in Midland.

* Dow Corning headquarters

* Dow Corning Midland plant

Toxicity tests by Dow Corning shows the solvent to increase the incidence of tumors in female rats ( no effects were seen in male rats ), but further research concluded that the effects observed in rats are not relevant to humans because the biological pathway that results in tumor formation is unique to rats.

Various officials of Dow Corning and Dow Chemical paid $ 335, 986.

Silastic ( a portmanteau of ' silicone ' and ' plastic ') is a trademark registered in 1948 by Dow Corning Corporation for flexible, inert silicone elastomer.

Today, the Silastic trademark refers to silicone elastomers, silicone tubing and some cross-linked polydimethylsiloxane materials manufactured by Dow Corning, the owner of the global trademark.

* Dow Corning Corporation

Dow Corning Corporation's Cor-Tech Room Temperature Procedure is designed to allow plastination of specimen at room temperature to various degrees of flexibility using three combinations of polymer, crosslinker and catalyst.

Corning is involved in two major joint ventures: Dow Corning and Samsung Corning Precision Glass.

: Example: Dow Corning ’ s silicone-gel breast implant

* Dow Corning

Some major joint ventures include Dow Corning, MillerCoors, Sony Ericsson, Penske Truck Leasing, Norampac, and Owens-Corning.

On October 13, 1989, the Dow stumbled into another downfall, the 1989 Mini-Crash which initiated the collapse of the junk bond market as the Dow registered a loss of almost 7 %.

First registered in 1965 and marketed by Dow Chemical under the tradenames Dursban, Lorsban and Renoban, chlorpyrifos was a well known home and garden insecticide, and at one time it was one of the most widely used household pesticides in the US.

Fortum is listed on NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange and is currently the only Nordic energy company registered on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

In some jurisdictions, the name Saran is a registered trademark of the Dow Chemical Company, while in others, it has lost trademark status and become a generic term for these polymers.

In these cases, in order to avoid discontinuity in the index, the Dow Divisor is updated so that the quotations right before and after the event coincide:

The stretch was constructed on the west side of the Pennsylvania Railroad ( now the Northeast Corridor ) from near the northeast of Dow Avenue between Colonia and Iselin to Cedar Street in Menlo Park, to avoid two railroad crossings.

Dow quickly issued a statement saying that they had no employee by that name — that he was an impostor, not affiliated with Dow, and that his claims were a hoax.

Its name derives from Wall Street, located in New York City, which is the heart of the financial district ; it has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser.

Although HPS was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in 1975 and is " non-American ", it shares both the logo and name of Halliburton Energy Services and, according to Dow Jones Newswires, offers services from Halliburton units worldwide through its Tehran office.

In commercials, he voiced the character of Burger Chef for the fast food chain of the same name, the Scrubbing Bubbles for Dow Chemicals and Mr. Owl for Tootsie Roll Pops.

During the scene at the dinner table in the 2005 film Wedding Crashers, " Grandma " Mary Cleary ( played by actress Ellen Albertini Dow ) mentions Hull ( though only by his Cabinet position, rather than by name ) was " her late husband ".

During the 1970s and early 1980s, Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals sold similar cough syrups ( differing slightly in flavor, but pharmacologically identical ) under the names " 2 / G " ( a reference to " glyceryl guaiacolate ," an older name for guaifenesin ) for the base expectorant formulation, and " 2G / DM " for the guaifenesin / dextromethorphan formulation.

Every April they host " The Big Show " at the Dow, which features a big name performer.

Tao Jones Index was a pun based on Bowie's real name, David Jones, and the 1997 Bowie Bond issue ( Tao is pronounced " Dow ", as in Dow Jones Index from the US stock market ).

Thomson holds both the managing editor position as well as the position of editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Co., the News Corp. unit that publishes the Journal, according to News Corp .< ref name =" NYTMAG ">

Mobile mayor Mike Dow announced the name at that year's Mobile Fourth of July fireworks display.

Dow Jones changed the Ottaway name to a Dow Jones variation in 2009.

MAPP gas is a trademarked name belonging to Linde Group, previously to Dow, for a fuel gas based on a stabilized mixture of methylacetylene ( propyne ) and propadiene.

After Dow sold some of its consumer product lines to S. C. Johnson in 1997, the product had to be rebranded, and took the name of its longtime " Scrubbing Bubbles " mascots, anthropomorphic bubbles with brush bristles on their undersides.

The company has been founded as a joint-venture between Reuters and Dow Jones in May 1999 under the Dow Jones Reuters Business Interactive name, then renamed Factiva six months later.

Making his name in handling plaintiff's litigation, among O ' Quinn's biggest wins were a $ 1 billion verdict in 2006 against Wyeth Laboratory for its diet drugs, fen-phen, $ 17. 3 billion tobacco settlement for the state of Texas, and $ 100 million for silicone breast implants made by Dow Corning.

The current components on the Dow Jones Utilities are as follows ( company name followed by ticker symbol ):

Joe Dow settled in the general area in the 1860s and that area was known as Dow's Prairie.

From then ( until January 2006 ) the international CNBC services carried the tagline " A Service of NBC ( Universal ) and Dow Jones " ( or depending on other local partners, a variation of this tagline ) when introducing regional programmes ( including magazine programmes ) and airing general channel promotions.

Before Holden won the general election, he faced a primary challenge within his own party from political activist Sheila Dow Ford, who ran to the left of Holden, eviscerating the Congressman for voting against the Affordable Care Act in March 2010.

:* Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, which held that Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence did not incorporate the Frye " general acceptance " test as a basis for assessing the admissibility of scientific expert testimony ;

The composition of the supplied gas has varied widely, with the gases as supplied by different repackagers / resellers at any one time varying, as well as the general composition varying over time, but a typical composition for an early Dow gas might be: methylacetylene ( propyne ) 48 %, propadiene 23 %, propane 27 %.

Like most other stock market indices, the Dow undergoes periods of general increase and general declines or stagnation.

Dow was born in Hollywood, California, to John Stevens, a designer and general contractor, and Muriel Virginia Dow ( née Montrose ) ( May 27, 1906 – April 30, 2001 ), a stunt woman in early Westerns and Clara Bow's movie double in Hollywood.