As in Germany, unreliability in meeting power demands has necessitated importation of nuclear power from France.
There have been fears that because of its age and unreliability, that descent could go awry.
But we can measure the inverse easily, the trends in unreliability outage frequency and duration.
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But it is investigating the quality of exam marking, following complaints about the unreliability of some results.
By the end, the movie becomes a minor classic about the unreliability of judgment and the instability of truth.
These examples, however, prove only that happiness surveys may be second only to infidelity surveys on the scale of unreliability.
Yet studies run into the unreliability of modelling future climatic effects and sometimes ignore changes in land use and health care.
In fact, evidence of Assad's unreliability is damning: He agreed three times in writing to leave Lebanon, but has not done so.
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He did not have to look far for inspiration, as his college roommate's perpetual gripe was about the unreliability of internet sites such as MP3.lycos.com.
If nothing else were sufficient to assure Mr. Halperin's rejection by the Armed Services Committee and the Senate, his manifest dishonesty and unreliability surely should.
Critics of the privatization of intelligence and surveillance cite the unreliability of the sources used and information gathered, as well as a host of privacy concerns.
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Chief Executive Jeffrey Smisek apologized for widespread problems when the company moved United's passenger records onto Continental's computer system, and for unreliability in the busy summer season.
This former railway station is also known for its local nights and experimental club sets, not to mention its unreliability (management changes and temporary closures are not uncommon).
Now, if Areva wanted to harm Siemens reputation or make it less attractive to Rosatom, what better way than to demonstrate the unreliability of its control system software?
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The difficulties and unreliability of the carriers has forced some of the largest and best funded players, like Flipkart, to develop their own logistics arms to deliver their packages.
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For example, he would be free to publicize the true fact that Monex currently has an F rating from the Better Business Bureau, which the agency says connotes unreliability.
The short-sightedness behind the use of these techniques ignored the unreliability of the methods, the nature of the threat, the mentality and modus operandi of the terrorists, and due process.
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The unreliability of the United States as an ally - a hallmark of the Obama presidency more generally - is reinforcing the sense that it is every man for himself in Iraq.
Writing here at CNN.com in December, I ridiculed Ijaz's suggestion that the U.S. government would ever have shared such information with the government of Pakistan, and reminded readers of Ijaz's history of unreliability.
But the plaintiffs' lawyers got Gerdes to admit that he has testified about 35 times in criminal trials, always testifying for the defense, and always testifying as to the unreliability of DNA tests.
"American health care operates with levels of unreliability, injury, waste and just plain poor service that long ago became unacceptable in many other industries, " says Donald Berwick, a Harvard pediatrician and a crusader for fixing flawed care.
The unreliability - or "statistical variability" - of chips is a problem that many researchers were trying to deal with, said Professor Asen Asenov from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow.
In response, several bloggers have argued that these elasticities are underestimated, pointing to the unreliability of estimates of long-run price elasticity of oil demand in general and to other literature with higher estimates than the IMF study.
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"American health care operates with levels of unreliability, injury, waste and just plain poor service that long ago became absolutely unacceptable in many other industries, " says Donald Berwick, a Harvard pediatrician and a crusader for fixing flawed care.
Team Obama is severely reducing the power-projection capabilities of the United States with program cuts and a just-announced change in strategy that will embolden America's enemies and compound the distress felt by its allies about our growing unreliability.
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Years of American unreliability have greatly diminished U.S. credibility and clout in the region, and -- even if American leadership is brought to bear -- there is a considerable risk that a new "peace plan" could emerge from this weekend's summit meeting, establishing a de jure requirement to disarm the Contras.
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