The creaking electrical-supply system is starved of investment to carry out urgently needed repairs, as is the water-supply system.
Oki will keep its memory-chip operation in business to supply system LSIs -- chips packing several functions on one silicon wafer.
For the first five years of sanctions, Iraq was unable to import any of the parts needed to repair its water-supply system.
If there was a failure in the air supply system then the pressure would decrease more slowly but still eventually match the outside air pressure.
Its maker, a Dutch alchemist called Cornelius van Drebbel, is thought to have used a primitive oxygen-supply system, based on saltpetre, to prevent the crew from asphyxiating.
The equipment-supply system lends itself especially well to scam-artistry.
The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.
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Dell plans to begin using BizTalk Server 2000 this week in live production for part of its supply chain system, Gates said.
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Carly Fiorina, HP's chief executive, blamed the unit's poor performance on the absence of a traditional uplift at the end of the quarter and disruption caused by a new supply chain system.
"As more and more people decide that they, too, want to burn a DVD of the kids to send to Grandma and Grandpa for the holidays, I think they will increasingly look to Apple to supply the system on which they create their masterpieces, " says Pile.
It is a full supply-chain system and all the logistics that can go into it.
Most important, Wal-Mart is exporting a retailing and supply-chain system that trains and influences not only the "associates" but the public as well.
Content marketing works through a supply and demand system.
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Although the Federal Reserve dramatically increased liquidity, the money supply in the banking system barely budged.
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Two of which were to allow the intertwined collapses of both the money supply and the banking system.
And a project is underway today to create a solar-powered water purification system to supply the needs of 750-1500 people per day.
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Cepheid has a partnership with Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ) to supply the Biohazard Detection System to the U.S. Postal Service.
Israel, which is widely believed to have nuclear capability, did not retaliate under pressure from the United States, which agreed to supply the Patriot missile system to the Jewish state for its defense.
Many interesting observations follow on from this central thesis, notably that the ability of the educational system to supply workers educated to meet the needs of the economy, and yet keep pushing it forward, increased economic equality.
Micro-grids are an important solution: a combination of a generator and hardened distribution system can supply reliable and larger quantities of electricity to a small circuit of users including emergency services, shelters, gas stations and grocery stores.
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If you manufacture globally, it is simpler to be bound by the toughest regulatory system in your supply chain.
Please understand, we do not see a threefold increase in the money supply via the private banking system, here and now.
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To repeat, nothing supercharges a money supply more than a banking system willing to create money by pyramiding loans, investments and deposits on top of its excess reserves.
Firefighters are in short supply all across the national system.
"I saw a warning-and-response system that will supply first-responders with timely and life-saving information in the event of a chemical attack on a subway or any other enclosed space, " Bush said.
However, because of a different system of electricity supply in the UK, electromagnetic fields are generally less intense, resulting in only a few children found to be exposed to levels greater than 0.2 micro-Tesla.
As we have discussed several times in this space, nothing supercharges a money supply more than a banking system willing to create money by pyramiding loans, investments and deposits on top of its excess reserves.
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The current Governor, Sir Mervyn King, fell out with the previous government over his refusal to supply liquidity to the banking system at the height of the 2008 crisis until cornered by a coalition of BOE and Treasury officials.
Government cannot specifically control the money supply at its source in a fractional reserve system, but only react to conditions caused by the decisions of individual banks to supply or not.
Still, what one could say about this system was that it took the global supply of money out of the hands of central bankers and politicians (as long as the system stayed in place).
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