Since drilling wells is the only means of finding oil and natural gas, IDCs essentially amount to what any other industry would be able to deduct as a part of its cost of goods sold, a concept of accounting and tax law as old as the tax code itself.
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Creating a vegetarian restaurant was too much of a drastic change, so creating a concept of reducing the amount of meat and fish on a plate was what he saw as a compromise.
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Just to reiterate, we do -- first of all, I would say that there have been expressions of support from Congress for the concept of a no-fly zone, the concept of taking action in Libya.
Which is rather what being free individuals in a free society with a reasonable concept of private property rights means.
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De Waal isn't sure that his monkeys have what a philosopher would call a "concept of justice" in an intellectual sense.
There is, however, scope for new laws of gravity that affect light and heavy objects differently, or involve a modification of the concept of inertia.
Intervention abroad, particularly of the military sort, must be based on a threat to American citizens and not a vague concept of American interests.
It may be that the more the concept of apprenticeship and the concept of a rigorous vocational approach is incorporated in the high schools so the kids can actually see a direct connection to what they're learning and a potential career, they're less likely to drop out and we're going to see more success.
Roshan is part of a new generation of companies that are redefining the concept of a social enterprise in emerging markets.
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"This is something of a vindication of the concept, " said Sherwood Neiss, a principal of consulting firm Crowdfund Capital Advisors.
This ability to perform small tasks during bits of downtime is a major selling point in the concept of a mobile workforce.
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So it only took a year for our concept of a distributed, automated time capsule mechanism to break at a fundamental level.
Dr. Edwards and Dr. Steptoe worked with no public funding or direct research support at a time when the concept of a test-tube baby seemed the stuff of Orwellian science fiction.
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Within a month, one Egyptian developer built a basic proof of concept on a few webpages for Marginize, which streams tweets and other real-time commentary in the right-hand margins of a website.
They shared the idea with two of their professors, Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria, and found that the ethos of management-as-profession had been a founding concept of the first MBA course at HBS in 1908.
And while Durkee knows he took a risk with an unproven technology, he thinks his success has served as a proof of concept for established companies that are reluctant to take a chance with Linux on their mission-critical systems.
As a result, Arab food self-sufficiency policies have shifted towards a broader concept of food security.
All were electric vehicles of one type or another, part of a bewildering fleet of concept cars and racers that Venturi has brought out since 1984.
Less than one generation after the devastation of World War II, this was a campaign for global solidarity to safeguard stones and statues, and, through them, a concept of shared humanity.
For example, when Sun combined the concept of filesystems and the concept of networks, a revolution was born.
Kids bought 45s and never thought of a collection of songs as a "concept album" or work of art.
Over the past 100 years the quality of cars has soared, but the notion of being driven around in a top-quality car by a driver was still somewhat of a distant concept.
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"Without having somebody push you, whether it's a gym buddy or some concept of a coach, you tend to fall off the wagon, " says Perez.
Starting from a clean slate, the concept of a small battery-powered car that could be stacked at various pick-up points around a city took shape.
Opera Solutions has created a platform based on the concept of a signal hub that recognizes signals in many sources of data and provides a platform for creating models and applications.
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By contrast, the plan released yesterday narrows the playing field quite a lot, although it remains more of a concept than a proposal.
The arsenic-eating bacterium, written up in the current issue of Science, provides a muted proof of concept for this idea.
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They may not even have a concept of a simple computer, let alone Google Glasses.
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"There's not going to be a concept of public versus private, " Mr. Silbert says.
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