Much of the problem is that older circuit-switched networks were designed for one purpose: to connect two callers by opening up a dedicated line between them.
Worse, they are both proliferating advanced weapon systems designed for that purpose to others who wish us ill, from the mullahs in Iran to Kim Jong-il's North Korea to Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.
The best-known measure is, of course, the Scholastic Aptitude Test, taken by college-bound seniors only but widely used as a proxy for school performance despite its proprietor's continuous protestations that it was not designed for that purpose.
To win a place, pupils can sit a purpose-designed World Class Test or US pre-university exams.
The President has taken dramatic action -- 17 I think, or maybe more, small business tax cuts designed specifically for that purpose.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that this linear route was designed with a single purpose: to give the happy hiker a near-continuous view of the rocky African coast.
These original classes proved so popular that in 2008 she closed the hotel and moved into a new purpose-designed cooking school in Sultanahmet, where she now offers hands-on half-day classes focussing on traditional Anatolian dishes.
It was designed with a specific purpose in mind, which was to hold Congress's feet to the fire, which is what everybody said at the time would be the effect of the provision.
NATO's military aims were not an end in themselves but designed to serve a political purpose.
Sir Michael Wilshaw said inspectors did not want to see "frenetic activity designed to impress but without purpose, meaning and relevance".
Buy-side firms that did run risk management might have used Riskmetrics or Algorithmics, , while others used Excel, a flexible all-purpose tool not designed for specific tasks like risk management.
Even if you are a staunch proponent of U.S. biofuel policy, it is hard to argue that the current subsidy on grain ethanol serves the purpose it was designed to serve.
And previous witnesses already had testified about meetings in which Skilling heard about Enron's deteriorating financial condition and approved Fastow's outlandish "special-purpose entities" designed to hide those losses from the public.
Levchin thought this was a terrible idea because it was not the purpose for which they had designed the product.
Instead, such official spokesmen contended that this radar had been designed and located at Krasnoyarsk for a purpose permitted by that accord tracking objects in space.
The Space Launch System, or SLS, will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, as well as important cargo, equipment and science experiments to Earth's orbit and destinations beyond.
To find out just how well today's robots work, we tested six of the coolest personal bots currently available for sale in the U.S. ( Click here to see them.) They ranged in price from a couple hundred to a couple thousand dollars and fell into two broad categories: single-purpose robots, which are designed to accomplish a specific task, and entertainment robots, which exist for pleasure and play.
The building was designed by William Errington in 1875 with the purpose of bringing water from the Western Springs Reservoir to Auckland.
When the Assembly Government launched Designed for Life back in 2005, its purpose and ambition was "to create world class healthcare and social services in a healthy, dynamic country by 2015".
But, as governments became less malevolent, an exercise designed to extract value from the populace became one whose purpose was to improve the quality of administration.
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Unfortunately, its intended purpose is no laughing matter: It is designed to create the international legal equivalent of "overkill" bilateral commitments that would effectively foreclose any U.S. missile defenses not explicitly approved by the Russians.
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Unfortunately, its intended purpose is no laughing matter: It is designed to create the international legal equivalent of "overkill" -- bilateral commitments that would effectively foreclose any U.S. missile defenses not explicitly approved by the Russians.
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Roger Law, who with Peter Fluck designed the caricature puppets for the show, said the purpose of the show was to lance a bubble every week, and to educate Britons about what the government was doing in their name.
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In the past few years, a handful of IT vendors have begun offering a new breed of engineered systems or optimized systems designed to offer pre-bundled and pre-tested purpose-built machines that free customers from the drudgery of endless integration busywork.
The freighter was designed with the manoeuvre in mind and carries extra fuel for the purpose.
The footwear sold under Nike brand are designed for athletic purposes but large proportion is worn for casual and leisure purpose as well.
The steel jacketed foundation, Triton, will be designed and developed by its subsidiary Aquind, at OGN's new purpose-built facility at its Hadrian Yard in Wallsend.
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