By the end of 2008, the year Buffett invested in the company, BYD had launched the first dual mode vehicle with no reliance on specialized charging stations.
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For an indie developer overheads can be close to zero, development costs are cheap and there is no reliance on retailers having shelf space for your product.
No appeal to history or scholarship, no reliance on the methods of science or social science, no faith in democratic compromise: Instead, common sense is used to ground policy, especially by those in the debt ceiling debate intent on bringing us to the brink of defaulting on our national debt, or perhaps over the brink.
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There's no reason to question the reliance on the hosts so long as they--and the viewers' appetite for them--remain healthy.
But it is by no means in contradiction to decreasing our reliance on foreign oil, because we also want to increase the production of domestic oil sources, both offshore and onshore.
It helped produce the success of the last decade: not a single follow-up al Qaeda attack in the U.S. Exclusive reliance on drones and a no-capture policy spend down the investments in intelligence that made this hiatus possible, without replenishing the interrogation-gained information needed to predict future threats.
Pakistan, with its small tax base, poor system of tax collection, and reliance on foreign aid, faces no real prospects for sustainable economic growth.
Mobile sites on the refreshed Xpress browser rendered slowly, but much of that had to do with the devices' reliance on an EDGE connection (no 3G here, sorry).
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In any case, by the time the free market came to India, Reliance was so entrenched official patronage was no longer necessary.
While keeping the Wal-Marts of the world at bay, the government has no reservations about permitting Indian conglomerates, including the Reliance group, to launch a chain of superstores that would eventually threaten the livelihood of those same corner shops.
"He came to us before the 2008 election and said that everyone keeps talking about reducing oil reliance and cutting greenhouse gas emissions, but no one knows which approaches are more cost-effective than others, " says Phil Sharp, president of RFF.
The first thing you notice walking round the Reliance site there is how spotless it is: no rubbish or legions of people hanging about.
No one has applied social science to startups with the rigor, reliance and scale of the Institute.
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No doubt its politicians will eventually wean the economy off its heavy reliance on the debt-laden American consumers, but not overnight.
This contributed to banks' and industrial companies' over-reliance on short-term foreign loans, which could no longer be serviced after the currency collapsed last October.
In recent months the company has raced to reduce its reliance on short-term debt, particularly commercial paper that it could no longer place in the market.
Urging a wholesale revamp of the welfare system based on greater self-reliance, it reads like a riposte to the Lafontaines' tome, and is no doubt meant to.
"I was pleased that there were no issues of capital and currency controls, " says Christopher Cron, Asian chief for U.S. insurer Reliance National in Hong Kong.
The deal would also restore the Tata Group to its traditional place as India's biggest conglomerate by revenues, ousting the more abrasive Reliance Industries from the top spot a side-effect that Mr Tata and his colleagues are no doubt quietly relishing.
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