Instead, you need to plan for alternatives should these components or services fail, using both using redundancy within the main cloud provider, and, when possible, fallbacks to alternate service providers.

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Mr. Kampelman was a conscientious objector during World War II and did alternate service by participating in a government-funded starvation study that saw him drop in weight to 100 pounds from 160.

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Users have been jailbreaking the iPhone and the iPad since the tech toys first rolled out of Cupertino, and not just because they want to have alternate phone service.

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But what about things like the foreign service pay, an alternate F-35 jet engine?

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Rather than negotiate with Meadows, Hanna got permission from the Forest Service to use an alternate drive. (Its ploy defeated, Meadows backed off.) Then Hanna got lucky--back-to-back epic snowfalls and a 70% jump in skiers that kept him solvent.

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Customers who enrolled in the program, which reports spending data to alternate credit reporting agency PRBC, still receive this reporting service.

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Subway construction is disrupting direct weekend service to Flushing, so be sure to check alternate travel options with the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

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In an alternate scenario, iTunes downloads could suffer because of the increasing competitive threat from cloud service providers.

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The system will hunt for a useable alternate predefined frequency until it finds one, and temporarily take each of the unusable control channels out of service.

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