It found a good supply of medium-grade crude but had to shut in the well for lack of a pipeline to get the oil to market.
They liked the complete package of business friendly taxes, regulations, a tamed tort bar, and a good supply of young engineers coming out of Mississippi State in Starkville.
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Many companies went so far as to consider a good supply of golf courses and cheap caddies wearing Vietnam's distinctive conical hats a precondition for coming to the country.
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The next year Du decided to set up a brand-new research lab in Shanghai, which has a good supply of disciplined scientists and is cosmopolitan enough to lure back other Chinese scientists from U.S. drug firms.
These do not quite fall into the category of entertainment, but they too depend more on human talent and ingenuity than on pig iron, steel mills or production lines and the Midwest has a good supply of them.
If the name of the meat is just too "Three Billy Goats Gruff" for you, call it "capretto" (Italian for "kid"), like chef Scott Conant does at his five Scarpetta restaurants, where he serves it whenever he can find a good supply of extra-tender, young goat.
When a cartel artificially restricts supply of a good, there's a temptation for individual states to break off and sell more.
Most industries don't have a good way to hire a steady supply of foreign workers because there's one temporary visa program for low-wage nonagricultural workers but it's capped at 66, 000 visas per year and is only supposed to be used for seasonal or temporary jobs.
But the spread between the price of the raw material and the price of the finished good is a function of the supply of ethylene-making capacity and the demand for ethylene.
Until recently, it has been hard to get a good view of the supply side dynamics.
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"It is important all our equipment is in service so we can maintain a good quality of electricity supply to all of our customers who depend on our service, " he said.
The console also supported games made for the original PlayStation, it could be used as a DVD player, and Sony's good relationship with publishers ensured a steady supply of top-selling games.
But companies will not invest in the supply of a good they cannot sell at a profit.
When supply of a good or service is capped, economists expect first to see price increases and then to see rationing.
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People should ask themselves why gold should be an exception to this general principle and whether this price-fixing exercise is a good way to determine the supply of dollars.
It is very likely that 2013 will be a very good year for HDD companies as a result of constrained supply in 2012, particulalry if prices stay at least someone above the pre-flood levels.
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However, just thinking of economics 101, the law of supply and demand implies that if less of something is available there is a good chance the price of what on the market will increase.
Expanding the supply of affordable housing would be a good first step.
They also want people with a good mix of industrial engineering knowledge and command of supply chains for efficiency, cost savings and risk reduction.
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What is more, good American tabloid journalists seem in scarce supply, probably a result of sharply varying ethics (think puritanical American professionalism versus anything-goes British ruthlessness).
It turns out the furniture maker would buy a whole year's supply of wood when the price was good but didn't have the space or the manpower to unload the big shipments.
The PlayStation was technologically impressive, with its ability to splash over 300, 000 polygons on a television screen in a single second. (Nearly all videogame graphics are composed of polygons so "polygons per second" is a rough and ready measure of a machine's power.) Perhaps more important, Sony carefully forged and nurtured good relationships with third-party software developers, ensuring a steady supply of great games for its system.
Yet, although such agencies have good access to consumers in the developing world, they often lack a steady supply of product to fill the demand they create.
In the typical production supply chain for consumer products, of which apparel production is a good example, the higher-value, pre-manufacturing activities like designing, engineering, and branding, and post-manufacturing activities like marketing, warehousing, transporting, and retailing happen in the United States, while the mostly lower-end manufacturing and assembly activities take place abroad.
This is a good thing as it will reduce cost pressures and reduce the size of the commodity supply surge ahead, helping avoid a crash in commodity prices.
Sean Neeson from the Alliance party asked Mr Graham if he thought the proposed takeover of NIE by the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) would be a good thing.
That, too, would lead to higher prices for almost every supply chain component and consumer good requiring road transportation, and set in motion a vicious cycle of economic headwinds.
And, while the new BlackBerry 10 models look sleek and feel good, the company is navigating the difficult waters of optimizing its supply chain and developing a solid marketing strategy to get back in the game.
If demand for a particular good or service is inadequate, then the price of that good or service will fall until demand equals supply.
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