The plug-and-play solution minimizes engineering effort and civil requirements and lowers initial cost, scheduling, technical, permitting and financing risks with its factory-tested components and GE warranties.
Of course, this is also a bit of a deal with the devil -- Intellectual Ventures might be the most infamous patent troll in history, and HTC and Samsung have essentially decided the risks and cost of doing business with IV are more favorable than the risks and cost of going to court.
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"They will undermine the fight against crime and take unnecessary risks with national security and the safety of our communities, " he added.
He also advised U.S. companies doing business abroad in Latin America and Europe on corporate compliance, anti-corruption, and the risks associated with foreign investment and multinational business transactions.
During the consultations governance challenges in arid and semi-arid areas were discussed and how institutions can be better equipped to deal with risks and uncertainties, emerging out of climate change, population growth, urban-rural tensions and groundwater pollution.
One would expect greater rewards in a business so hard to manage and with such huge risks, such as fuel prices.
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Most of its outlets are run by franchise agents, a system which allowed the company to expand its retail stores rapidly and with relatively few risks last year.
At the beginning, I was angry with Sam for not explaining to me all the costs and risks associated with investing in the Special Situations fund, as it was part of his job to do.
As a result, they were able to borrow as much as they wanted and take risks with those funds that they couldn't have taken unless the markets believed -- correctly as it turned out -- that Uncle Sam would stand behind them.
Subsequently, large agribusiness concerns like Archer Daniels Midland have consistently served as prime-movers in campaigns to sell high technology to the Soviet Union, to eliminate impediments like the Jackson-Vanik and Stevenson amendments and to oblige the U.S. taxpayer to assume the substantial risks associated with trade and investment in the USSR risks that commercial enterprises and banks find unacceptable.
"You can't remove all risks, but you can understand where risks lie and make sure banks have in place proper plans to mitigate those risks and deal with the possibility of a failure, " he said.
There have been previous efforts to build sensor nets by various private companies, but, like the Internet and Wi-Fi, Zigbee uses open standards, lowering the costs and risks associated with building the technology.
Based on what I've seen and heard from fellow CEOs and business leaders, if organizations with more than 1, 000 smartphones or smart devices in use do not enforce mobility audit and cost management strategies and solutions, they can be sure their mobile communications costs will rise sharply, and so will the risks associated with device and data losses.
By mitigating risk, they empower more entrepreneurs by lowering the perceived, and actual, risks associated with launching a product, and perhaps starting a company.
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Still, large amounts of manure and other runoff present risks associated with creating millions and billions of cheap eggs.
The therapy gives Type 1 diabetes patients more flexibility and can reduce the risks and complications associated with the disease.
This despite the fact that 68% of all employees in the wellness programs started out with significant health risks and therefore had to work with a health coach.
But free markets are inadequate or fail altogether in allocating public goods efficiently and effectively, in addressing systemic and catastrophic risks, and in dealing with economic externalities.
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The case involved Myriad Genetics, which holds the patent rights on two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, that are associated with increased risks for breast and ovarian cancer.
It is regularly updated with the latest news, reports, legislation and analyses of information related to the risks associated with the closure of Guantanamo and transfer of detainees to the United States.
He frames them incisively, ruefully, and nostalgically, as he aims lightheartedly at a darker purpose: connecting love and power, he suggests the virtue of exerting principled authority, whether in business, in politics, or in art and shows the risks that come with the pleasures and responsibilities of doing so.
"It's up to a different level of discussion, how do we deal with this as a society, " he said of the benefits and risks that come with fracking.
Failing that, the least-worst outcome may well be one in which most, if not all, of the popular recreational drugs are legally available, and where people understand the risks associated with them, just as they (supposedly) understand the risks of alcohol and tobacco.
It also urges Congress to hold urgent hearings into German export practices and to examine with care the real risks they pose to American and Western security interests and the additional costs imposed on U.S. defense expenditures.
It also urges Congress to hold urgent hearings into German export practices and to examine with care the real risks they pose to American and Western security interests -- and the additional costs imposed on U.S. defense expenditures.
Financial institutions are underwriting Shariah-compliant loans and bond issuances without really understanding the risks associated with default and bankruptcy treatment.
However, China has bounced back from the dark period overshadowed with perils and risks.
Although swifter, he feared it would shun the entire consumer market and still came with legal risks.
In addition, Medicare will provide increased assistance for lower- income beneficiaries and those with greater health risks.
Early Islamic banks tried operating on these bases, with risks and losses shared among bank, depositor and borrower alike.
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