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"Generally they don't want the burden and uncertainty of selling a nonliquid asset."

That would be more difficult for an industrial company, which owns factories, real estate or other nonliquid assets.

There now exist sizable fleets of ships designed to carry 40- and 80-cubic-foot containers normally used for nonliquid cargo.

But nonliquid lubricants that could withstand such heat, like powdered graphite, are difficult to apply continuously to moving engine parts.

"But if they've got nonliquid assets - companies, real estate, houses - that can't be moved, that would be blocked.

In the same context, there are the urolites, erosions caused by evacuation of liquid wastes and nonliquid urinary secretions.

It's just tied up in a lot of nonliquid ways right now, and I spent quite a bit more than I'd budgeted-it's only a temporary cash-flow problem.

He and his youngest brother had had a meeting in which they had decided to begin selling all their nonliquid assets-godowns, manufacturing plants, and the like.

Coal and other nonliquid fossil fuels can be synthesized into gas for reformation, which would allow the United States to tap into its most abundant and readily accessible energy reserves.

The chairman of Time Warner, Gerald M. Levin, has consistently indicated that he hopes to turn the nonliquid assets of his company into cash to help pay down its $18 billion in debt.

What he wanted, near as Kareen could tell, was for Mark to be carried off by predators, possibly even along with his four million marks in nonliquid investments, but he could hardly say so to Mark's mother.

Nonliquid suggestions include the feuillette of diced apples and orange in a moat of raspberry puree, a cinnamon-spiked pear poached in Beaujolais, and shamelessly rich creme brulee under a glassy sugar lid.

An advantage of brake fluid over a strictly nonliquid mechanical option is that the driver doesn't feel the strong forces at work on the brake pads, where temperatures can soar to around 800 degrees Fahrenheit (426.7 degrees Celsius).

Urolite is a term composed of two Greek words, uro- meaning "urine" and lithos meaning "stone" and was first used to describe the fossil of a nonliquid urinary secretions produced by some groups of reptiles, in relation to coprolites.

"The way I present it is that there are two ways to preserve assets - in a liquid form as cash in the bank, or in a nonliquid form, which is real estate," said Pamela Canale, a mortgage counselor at Fairmount Mortgage, a Del Webb subsidiary.