To compete, all the combatants have been stockpiling patents, in something of an arms race.
Rebels have been stockpiling ammunition and medical supplies in preparation for the expected assault.
The Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the production, stockpiling and use of chemical and biological weapons.
Both the iron ore and copper industries have seen China importing more goods and stockpiling.
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And his spending has not gone up as much as the fundraising, so he's stockpiling cash.
According to Bloomberg News, China plans on stockpiling more oil to reduce its local price fluctuations.
China has been stockpiling a mountain of cotton, presumably to insulate its textile makers from shocks.
America at present, like the proverbial summer grasshopper, is doing more frittering than stockpiling.
Meanwhile, there is talk that importers, like China and Japan, are stockpiling rice to safeguard supplies.
As countries have started to plan for a pandemic, many have begun stockpiling Tamiflu.
Food sales increased by 4.9%, despite the previous year's figure being inflated by pre-millennium stockpiling.
The few foreigners left in Yemen are either making plans to leave or are stockpiling food.
But they have been stockpiling the minerals and working on technologies to recycle them to protect against supply disruptions.
Under the new laws, stockpiling detergent with phosphate for use after the ban takes effect isn't illegal.
He cautioned, though, that consumer stockpiling, increased holiday demand, and bad weather may result in isolated shortages.
It is supposed to ban the production and stockpiling of nerve gas and other chemical weapons worldwide.
USDA. The government is no longer financing the stockpiling of a year's worth of crops or more.
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They are to capital what retailers are to clothing, trying to anticipate market demand and stockpiling accordingly.
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In court, prosecutors accused the three men of preparing for "violence and destruction, " such as stockpiling Molotov cocktails.
And, according to the American intelligence official, the regime appears to be stockpiling weapons and supplies in the area.
No wonder the Chinese are now stockpiling shiny yellow ingots, coins, and bracelets.
Imports were up only 7.7% for the two-month period, and that was only because of continued stockpiling of commodities.
The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention was supposed to preclude the production or stockpiling of agents for biological warfare (BW).
Professor Oxford believes governments around the world should be stockpiling these drugs now.
Syrian officials have admitted to stockpiling chemical weapons, though they say they will never use them against their own people.
With the government's stockpiling granaries full to the brim, Japanese farmers have long been paid not to produce the stuff.
Like the proposed CW ban, it is supposed to prevent any nation from obtaining and stockpiling quantities of the prohibited substances.
With the global economic picture fuzzy at best, companies around the world are stockpiling cash to brace for the worst-case scenario.
Syria is not one of the 188 signatories to the convention, which bans the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.
Stockpiling at a time of record high prices suggests that Chinese businesses expect the price of goods to go even higher.
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