It can refer to many things, ranging from a pious way of life to a system of corporal and capital punishment, laid down in Islamic law but practised in only a few places.
What is likely to replace the current model is a new system of scaled down agencies.
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It would provide a refundable tax credit for the purchase of health care, but it would also set up a voucher system for the purchase of Medicare down the road.
To transform Chrome and Gears into a lightweight operating system, Google will have replaced the rest of Linux with a slimmed down windowing and application manager that integrates with Chrome and Gears for running applications on the web and with the Linux kernel for running the computer hardware.
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Under its shiny new skin, new hardware and software, such as a slimmed down version of Apple's OS X operating system and a flash memory drive, instead of the current iPod's mechanical hard drive, could keep the new device thin and light.
Componentization of the OS to scale the system up or down depending on the device, including a set of modules that have been preconfigured and tested to enable device-specific scenarios.
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Wyllie's award-winning play about the iniquities of the world banking system, A Day Down a Goldmine, was produced several times throughout the 1980s.
Running on the software giant's Windows CE operating system, a stripped-down version of its desktop software, the devices will offer a calendar, address book, memo pad, voice recorder, e-mail and limited web browsing.
Only a modest amount of reserve capacity is needed to keep the system from going down when one or a few power plants crash.
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Why make wine-shipping the decision of a judge or series of judges up and down the crowded court system?
Under a passport system covering the European Economic Area (a broader, watered-down version of the European Union), investors were supposedly covered by the Icelandic deposit-insurance scheme.
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The Lib Dems also favour a system of no-fault compensation to cut down on the need for costly litigation following medical errors.
So the company has teamed up with a small venture-backed company that has developed a system that can break down some of that trash fast and turn it into natural gas, electricity, compost or all of the above, making some of that trash even more valuable.
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The Hirisplex system could allow investigators to narrow down a large group of possible suspects.
Jolicloud is a stripped down operating system that, instead of running software, connects to Web services using their application programming interface (API).
Conservative Nicola Blackwood argued that the public's "lack of confidence" in the sentencing system was down to a desire to see an "effective deterrent".
Last month, a secondary school in north Wales began testing a system of using mobile phone text messages to clamp down on pupils who played truant.
Then peers turn to a whole raft of orders and regulations under the Welfare Reform Act... these are detailed changes to reshape the whole system, and Labour peers have put down a series of "regret" motions against them.
Mr Hanke argues that the experience of other countries shows such a system would bring interest rates tumbling down.
His immune system was destroyed, he was suffering from incurable liver and spleen disorders, his digestive system had shut down, and he had a chronic fever of 105 degrees.
Rather, Jackson found, it slowed down the operating system, increased the likelihood of a crash and made it easier for "malicious viruses" to find their way from the Internet onto our computers.
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More broadly, Apple's move to put a shrunk-down version of its operating system, OS X, on the iPhone and the iPod Touch tells us that Apple sees portable, Web-friendly gizmos as a big part of its future.
The error was discovered only when the radiator was shut down for the installation of a new heating system.
Jonathan Broskey, a former Apple employee who now heads the Army's Apple program, argues that the Unix core at the center of the Mac OS operating system makes it easier to lock down a Mac than a Windows platform.
And the question was whether I was going to have a big budget fight, at a time when I was still trying to figure out whether or not the financial system was melting down and we had to make a whole bunch of emergency decisions about the economy.
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Or, with few major financial institutions still standing after the meltdown would a take-down of Goldman jeopardize the entire banking system?
But this is why we need a system to shut these firms down with the least amount of collateral damage to innocent people and innocent businesses.
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There has been some talk about Bangladesh dropping down as part of a two-tier Test system and I favour that, but only with a top tier of nine.
Microsoft just laid down a number of announcements about motion-gaming system Kinect, the biggest of which is that Kinect sold 8 million units in the first 60 days.
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