With its outdated equipment, the firm was also under threat from more competitive foreign suppliers.

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The Transportation Department's inspector general said in a report that the consolidation effort is part of the FAA's program to replace deteriorating and outdated equipment.

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Mr Milburn - whose conference address will be his first high-profile speech to the members of the medical profession since the Budget - is also said to favour the money being spent on training new staff, replacing outdated equipment and replacing old technology.

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And he takes pleasure in how outdated his equipment is.

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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current demand--to the problems of overcrowded schools, aging infrastructure, obsolete equipment and textbooks, and outdated teaching methods and curricula.

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Poor working conditions, rudimentary surveillance and communications equipment, inadequate forensic science laboratories and outdated weaponry are making matters worse.

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