As in Chesapeake's deals with Cnooc, Devon's pact with Sinopec allows the American company to keep full operating control as well as control over sales of oil and gas from the wells.
In the most recent quarter, for instance, total revenue rose just 3.4%, but due to operating expense control operating income rose 4.0%, net income rose 9% and net income per basic share rose 11.3%.
By giving operating system control to Microsoft, Nokia stands to lose the opportunity to differentiate its smartphones from the competition, and risks making its smartphones a commodity.
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Reports of his vocal and impassioned political anti-American rhetoric are anything but the unremarkable comportment of a sleeper, and a person operating under external control would not be taken alive.
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But his logic suggests that the Fed should continue using interest rates as its operating lever to control the dollar, says Paul Hoffmeister, an economist at independent research firm Bretton Woods Research.
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So, too, rather than participate in the deal, the US would seek to destroy the Iranian-controlled operatives holding the hostages and discredit and defeat the Iraqi political forces operating under Iranian control.
Feeney also contends that gross margins are expanding, while operating expenses remain under control.
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We're also transferring forward operating bases to Iraqi control.
This move to exploit social network sites would also fuel a move away from attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system to gain control of a PC or steal data.
Moreover, anti-state forces (such as the Tamil Tigers, the IRA in Northern Ireland, or the Kosovo Liberation Army) often function rather like states in the territory they control, operating welfare services and primitive justice systems, while at the same time engaging in crime, from organ-snatching to bank heists, to keep their coffers full.
Al-Shabab denied there was a famine and banned several Western aid agencies from operating on territory under its control.
According to the article, Facebook is deeply insecure about the fact that it does not control the mobile operating system which the world is fast moving to.
If so, it will be on the basis of evidence not discernable at this writing indicating that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat has, at last, taken steps to exercise control over terrorists operating from areas for which he is responsible.
Some analysts believe this dominance could lead to Samsung looking at how it can assert far more control over the operating system - perhaps in a way similar to Amazon which, with its Kindle tablets, launched its own curated app store for its users to buy from instead of Google's default shop.
Any investigation will likely be similar to the one Microsoft faced when competitors including Netscape argued it used its control over PC operating systems a legitimate monopoly that reflected the usefulness of having most computers run on the same OS to dominate other markets such as Web browsers and applications.
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But the most severe penalty for operating a regulated monopoly is losing control of prices.
Network Rail has submitted a planning application for the proposed operating centre, which would eventually control all rail operations on the east coast mainline.
The FAA said the revocations cite several violations of regulations, including failure to comply with air traffic control and clearances and operating carelessly and recklessly.
The way to get true integration is to control everything from the operating system down to what kind of saw you are going to use on the glass.
That gave Argonaut-Madrone 99.9% control of the net operating losses.
The introduction of Windows smartphones has been the big change under chief executive Stephen Elop, who phased out the Symbian operating system shortly after he took control of the company in 2010.
National contributions to Argo include building, deploying, and operating floats, data management and quality control, and communications.
Apple, meanwhile, has thrived before under Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook, who took control when Jobs took a break following his 2004 surgery for pancreatic cancer.
Exercising carefully calculated control of the media and operating ruthlessly behind the scenes, Mr. Milosevic established a cult of personality that struck fear into non-Serbs in Yugoslavia.
The staff in the control tower have created new operating procedures to allow the airport to remain open to general aviation when drones are not taking off or landing.
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One former chief operating officer predicted it would stay under state control until 2030.
Other under-the-cover changes include giving browsers the sort of sophisticated software-control features usually found only in operating systems.
But with a 6-year head start in mapping and complete control of the hardware and the operating software, it is plausible bet.
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The group has also reportedly entered into financial arrangements with pirates operating from port cities under al Shabab's control.
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