In contrast, American companies typically spend more time on pre-development research, and then rely more on marketing.
Meanwhile, Hecla said it has expanded pre-development and exploration programs at other properties.
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Centrica's 20% share of the pre-development expenditure will be written off as an exceptional cost in the group's 2012 results.
That means developing tech like an augmented reality heads-up display, currently in pre-development, which uses laser projected imagery to make it look like navigational arrows actually appear on the road, not on a separate GPS screen.
Governments may be good at certain things that advance technology, such as the peer-reviewed funding of basic research and pre-commercial development (including demonstrations of proof-of-concept), but they are rarely leaders in technological innovation.
Cameco, for example, has said that uranium prices must reach their pre-Fukushima levels before development would become profitable.
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The residents alleged that they and their families suffered various injuries, including poisoning and development of pre-cancerous growths.
They conclude that an imbalance between toxic compounds and substances that neutralise and clear these toxins may be important in the development of pre-eclampsia.
At the time the MP was a junior minister responsible for economic development at the pre-devolution Welsh Office.
The Joint Private Cloud initiative would provide pre-integrated solutions based on joint technology development, and will be a one-stop-shop for sales and support.
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The new browser, available in Arabic, English, and a French version in development, will be pre-installed and available via download on Android devices across Orange's African footprint in 2013.
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Few places have seen a more drastic shift than the nation's capital, which is in the midst of an apartment boom while suburb development has fallen below pre-recession levels.
Later in his book, he argues that the pre-reform era has skewed India's development in ways that are not entirely welcome.
They also claim that diet, insulin resistance, smoking or patterns of infection may affect the development of both cancer and pre-eclampsia and their effects may differ between populations.
CTCs are public housing facilities, libraries and community centers nationwide designed to provide myriad services, including work force development and employment information, pre-school and family programs and adult education, all of which use computers and information technology to meet people's needs.
The president, however, is coming under intense pressure from various sources, notably British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the State Department and the Congress, to deny the Pentagon the pre-eminent role it has earned with the development and execution of a brilliant battle plan for toppling Saddam.
While 39 states and the District of Columbia offer state funded pre-school, the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development estimates that the United States ranks 28th out of 38 countries for the share of four-year olds enrolled in early childhood education.
One report published last year by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shows that Britain spends 1.1% of GDP on pre-primary spending for children, higher than the average national spend for other countries.
After about a year of development, the Link can finally be pre-ordered through Automatic's website.
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The goal is to establish a pre-qualified pool of private sector partners positioned to finance development of large scale renewable energy projects and re-coup their capital investment through the sale of energy to the Army, and excess energy back to the grid.
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Northampton Saints and ASDA will now continue their pre-application discussions with Northampton Borough Council and the West Northants Development Corporation.
Our development team cleverly designed the typeahead tool to pre-load our most popular content the moment the cursor hits the search field.
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This has been achieved through extensive development, strict quality control, and a stringent pre-production testing requirement of 400 drives passing 500 hours of intensive tests with zero errors.
But just like research has shown men are less interested in teaching pre-school, women are generally less interested in pursuing careers in software development.
He established position coaches for individual player development, maintained detailed performance records for each player, and pre-planned every game.
Jersey's treasury minister breached the terms of a contract for a development on St Helier's waterfront, a court has heard during a pre-trial hearing.
On the supply side, entrepreneurs are able to increasingly locate crowd-sourced funding through platforms like IndieGoGo, to iterate through social product development on platforms like Quirky, and to test market demand, pricing and take pre-orders to build a demand pipeline via platforms like Kickstarter.
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The Clinton pre-election obsession with California doubtless contributed to the administration's enthusiasm for the COSCO-Long Beach development.
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