If production for existing or extended categories is shifted outside the organization, are relationships struck with best-in-class resources?
The Japanese earthquake, for example, severely affected global electronics production and led to extended business disruptions for the automotive industry.
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Natural gas supply agreements often are measured in decades, and the world may be entering an extended period of increased natural gas production.
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Without capital being extended to small businesses they cannot expand production or hire new employees.
To that end, the production tax credit could get extended for a longer period in return for smaller benefits.
But there are also jobs at stake -- 37, 000 jobs could be put at risk if the production tax credit is not extended.
Last week, the life of the current plant - which had been due to stop production later this year - was extended by another two years.
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, for example, has argued since the most recent stock collapse that only dramatic new breakthroughs in energy and food production technologies will save the economy from an extended period of Malthusian zero-sum behavior.
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Tax credits that encourage the production of clean domestic energy, such as the Production Tax Credit (PTC), will be extended through the end of the year.
These join the luxury-oriented limited-production Tesla Model S all-electric and Fisker Karma extended-range electric sedans.
Virga said if the Grasberg strike is extended again, an additional 15 to 24 million pounds of copper production could be lost.
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As many as 800 farmers have got out of pig production in recent years, while many of those remaining are depending on extended credit from banks and feed companies.
Production costs are controlled, staff is hired and every product that can be extended is extended.
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The production was originally set to run from April through May, but was then extended to June, and then July, and now to mid-September, because it keeps selling out.
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K-J long ago dropped out of the main trade group, the Wine Institute, and Jackson grouses that if all the extended Gallo family ties are figured in, the clan accounts for most of U.S. wine production.
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