To allow someone else to specialise in the generation of electricity and pipe it to you.
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Shakespeare's Globe is setting up a new youth company to specialise in Jacobean period drama.
With increased pressure to specialise, the association says there is a shortage of general surgery posts.
This allows parts companies to specialise more and produce fewer parts in larger numbers.
Since audit firms tend to specialise by industry, some companies have no choice at all.
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And it allows companies to specialise, contracting out other work to firms around the corner.
As evidence, consider ClientLogic, a firm founded five years ago to specialise in handling call-centre work for other companies.
Initially, China is likely to specialise mainly in relatively low-skilled labour-intensive manufacturing, whereas developed economies will concentrate on activities needing higher skills.
First, while Gdansk continued as a generalist yard, Szczecin decided to specialise.
The first minister said staff would be helping to create a department with "real fire power, real career opportunities, real opportunities to specialise".
In his version of events, the monetisation of an economy starts when agricultural communities move away from subsistence farming and start to specialise.
And even some big firms are claiming to specialise in several things: for example, Apax says it has built expertise in six carefully selected industries.
Most stalls tend to specialise in one particular dish, but between them they offer an opportunity to sample a good selection of Morocco's traditional food.
Just as trade delivers overall gains to developed economies by allowing them to specialise in activities in which they have a comparative advantage, so does offshoring.
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The details are not yet settled, but if the academic subjects follow the pattern set by the vocational ones, such students would instead be forced to specialise.
"They wanted me to specialise more in construction, " he explains.
Rising through the ranks in this way gives an opposition MP the opportunity to specialise in a particular policy brief and probe government policy on it in more depth.
Back in the 1980s, Mr Carollo served on the city council, where he seemed to specialise in detecting alleged communist conspiracies, usually directed by Fidel Castro, in City Hall.
But within that basic framework schools should be given much more latitude to specialise and experiment, and parents should be given much more choice over where to send their children.
Small economies need trade to specialise, but the pressure of selling into a big domestic market helps companies in large economies remain competitive even without a lot of competition from imports.
Their size allows them to specialise in niche activities for instance, pumping out the last drips of oil from mature fields which giant firms tend to avoid because they take up so much management time.
According to Dr John Dunford, of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), one factor driving the increase in pupils studying the sciences separately, is that schools seeking to specialise in science need to offer subjects in this way.
Mr Mathews may long for citizens to deliberate about public policy, but he seems bound to stub his toe on the natural tendency of labour to divide and specialise.
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Hospitals were to be cut loose from central control, to be allowed to borrow private money, set wage rates, specialise, expand to manage themselves, in other words, under governing bodies to be elected by local people.
All banks try to diversify, but the good ones also specialise, or at least try to be good in areas in which they compete.
But many teachers are reluctant to carry out searches of pupils and many schools use security or support staff who specialise in behaviour issues to carry them out.
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They happen when cells specialise so as to become parts of particular body tissues.
If investors choose sector-focused funds they may want to go with firms that specialise in one sector.
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