While gum arabic is now produced mostly throughout the African Sahel, it is still harvested and used in the Middle East.

III, 3., 1891 While acacia gum has been harvested in Arabia, Egypt, and West Asia since antiquity, sub-Saharan acacia gum has a long history as a prized export.

While the Wrigley Company was a prominent user of this material in the production of chewing gum, today only a few companies still make chewing gum from natural chicle.

While a pure gum vulcanizate of styrene-butadiene has a tensile strength of no more than 2. 5 MPa, and almost nonexistent abrasion resistance, compounding it with 50 % of its weight of carbon black improves its tensile strength and wear resistance as shown in the below table.

While bee honey was a common food in the area at the time, Jones believes that it refers to the tree gum from that tamarisk tree, a tasteless but nutritious liquid, rather than the honey made from bees.

While the U. S. Department of Labor has a program of projecting industry and occupational employment trends and publishing current outlook statements, there is little tangible evidence that these projections have been used extensively in local curriculum planning.

While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.

While at one time the BVI was well regarded as a good domicile for captive insurance services, this changed beginning in recent years with the change of insurance regulators in 2007 and the government's increasing pressure to hire only locals (" belongers ") in the insurance industry.

While perhaps lightly competing against each other, they will present a unified front ( sometimes called a trade association or industry trade group ) to the government in requesting subsidies or aid or regulation.

While the Switcheroonie was a one-time publicity stunt, for one artist to take over a feature from its originator is an old tradition in newspaper cartooning ( as it is in the comic book industry ).

While several fantasy businesses had migrated to the internet in the mid-1990s, the watershed era for online fantasy sports was in 1997 when two web sites made their debut that forever changed the fantasy sports industry: Commissioner. com and RotoNews. com.

While there have been recent improvements in the fishing industry, it is still relatively undeveloped.

While cod was formerly the main catch, today the industry centers on cold-water shrimp and Greenland halibut.

While breaking into the film industry in the summer of 1916, Hawks also unsuccessfully attempted to transfer to Stanford University, and then returned to Cornell in September 1916.

While the U. S. action was still pending, the record industry commenced proceedings against Sharman on its home turf.

While serving as prime minister during the 1940s, Didi nationalized the fish export industry.

* Diversification: While this may hedge a company against a downturn in an individual industry it fails to deliver value, since it is possible for individual shareholders to achieve the same hedge by diversifying their portfolios at a much lower cost than those associated with a merger.

While reducing the cargo reshipment rates for New Zealand industry, this is seen by some as a heavy blow for local competitors, who, specialised in coastal shipping only, are less able to achieve the costs savings of large lines – these can generally operate profitably even without cargo on New Zealand-internal legs of their routes, and are thus able to underbid others.

While Abdul took a break from the music industry, she remained busy behind the scenes.

While the terms may differ from industry to industry, the actual stages typically follow common steps to problem solving —" defining the problem, weighing options, choosing a path, implementation and evaluation.

While he vied with any man in industry, prudence, wisdom, and courage, he excelled most men in simplicity of tastes, constancy of attachments, kindly playfulness, magnanimity, and mercy.

While industry remained largely state-controlled, Lenin acknowledged that the NEP was a necessary capitalist measure for a country unripe for socialism.

: While living standards have improved for many, a large number of persons has been pushed to the margin of economic activity especially in the areas which once depended heavily on the banana industry for a livelihood.

While usability is not mandated by federal regulations, it has become a best practice in government and industry.

While most of his writing has been oriented towards the computer industry, he has also written a few books relating to his other interests.

While its critics have questioned its feasibility, proponents argue that applications in industry, biology and human sciences research have already proven the validity of the original concept.

While attending Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Romero embarked upon his career in the film industry.

While the basic duties of toxicologists are to determine the effects of chemicals on organisms and their surroundings, specific job duties may vary based on industry and employment.

** While waiting at a bus stop, Ralph Baer an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document which lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multi billion dollar industry.

While diverse life forms prospered in the oceans, the land was comparatively barren – with nothing more complex than a microbial soil crust and a few forms that apparently emerged to browse on the microbial materials.

While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.

While Meadowlands prospered and grew due to the support it provided to the region's farms, the steady decline in those same farms ( and the large families they supported ) during the mid-late 1980s and early 1990s heralded the beginning of the town's gradual decline.

While some U. S. cities prospered in the post-war boom, the fortunes and population of Scranton ( and the rest of Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties ) began to diminish.

While serving in Potiphar's household, Yahweh was with Joseph so that he prospered in everything he did.

While other product lines struggled with or were destroyed by the Depression, Curtice's AC Spark Plug Division expanded and prospered.

While no gold was found in Mudgee itself, the town prospered as gold was discovered in nearby towns such as Gulgong, Hill End and Windeyer, New South Wales temporarily reached populations of 20, 000.

While the influence of the Church in people's lives ( and consequently, the influence Toreador held over the church ) waned, those Kindred that latched themselves onto businessmen prospered.

While 0 scale has become less popular for trains, its 1: 43 scale and 1: 50 scale have grown and prospered for diecast commercial vehicles.

While other colonies suffered from conflict and warfare, Philadelphia prospered.

While the Dragon Riders held sway, the land prospered and great cities were built.

While he welcomed the stampeders, " he never failed to remind them that they prospered at the expense of the original inhabitants by driving away their game and taking over their land.