In practice, however, it is a formula for condemning America's armed forces to operating obsolete equipment long after its useful service life is ended -- and inviting others to perceive and perhaps to act upon exploitable weaknesses on the part of the United States.
Transforming education so that it meets the needs of all children is a complex and difficult task that spans issues ranging from the global shortage of trained, qualified teachers--UNESCO estimates that we need 18 million new teachers to meet current demand--to the problems of overcrowded schools, aging infrastructure, obsolete equipment and textbooks, and outdated teaching methods and curricula.
In these cases, the utility book value of nuclear or technologically obsolete plants and equipment exceeds market value.
Not only could digital equipment continuously become obsolete but so could the format that movies are stored in, according to both digital and film experts at Eastman Kodak.
Their work level grows by the month--and yet most of the equipment they use is obsolete.
On paper, China already has a large air force and navy, but much of their equipment is based on obsolete Soviet designs of the 1950s and 1960s.
Even into the 1990s China had little more than a conscript army of ill-educated peasants using equipment based largely on obsolete Soviet designs of the 1950s and outdated cold-war (or even guerrilla-war) doctrine.
The company is also working on equipment to serve pure fiber systems, which would make DSL obsolete.
Dye, disgusted with how equipment improvements have added so many yards to the pro game, making many classic courses obsolete as tournament venues, built this 8000-yard monster to stop even the longest hitters in their tracks.
As a result of decades of neglect, the nuclear weapons complex consists of buildings and equipment that have been used since the Manhattan Project in many cases, are over-used, obsolete, and, in many cases, are simply falling down from age.
Because electronic equipment is increasingly sophisticated, standard meters--and the people who read them--are becoming obsolete.
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