Democracy may have its faults but alternative systems have proved no more fiscally prudent.
It will look at possible alternative systems for GCSEs and A levels, including whether there should be one provider instead of allowing schools to choose between competing exam boards such as WJEC.
The other assumption is that traditional energy systems are unlikely to adapt to the demand s of a changing climate and that alternative energy systems will win out.
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Finally, the work rules prevent the Debtors from implementing alternative distribution systems into new, currently unserved markets.
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Officials decided to invest some money in trialling alternative transport systems, and electric buses seemed a perfect option.
Technology has in turn spawned internalisation of trades by big investment banks off-exchange, alternative trading systems, and automated block trading.
The ability to roll out a high-speed alternative on systems other than its own would give AOL a tremendous boost.
As the analysts report, new Federal Reserve rules assert that alternative payment systems like PayPal are not payment card networks subject to a provision known as the Durbin amendment that caps interchange fees.
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That might be good for Fidelity, which has a huge internal market for shares and an investment in alternative trading systems, but not for small investors: in the bond market, which is electronic, they are routinely stuffed.
Yet surely the foundation could move more swiftly toward its ambitious goals if it also paid close attention to the political and policy environments within which they are plausible--and if it made shrewd use of public pressure, competitive forces, alternative delivery systems and its own financial clout.
Orion is an energy management company with a focus on high efficiency lighting systems and alternative energy system integration in commercial buildings.
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For example, John Lynn, a leading healthcare journalist, speculated on how the recent ruling could give health systems an alternative to the expensive practice of buying medical practices to buy loyalty.
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At a time when hospitals are spending millions to digitize, open source EHR software is an alternative option to costly and proprietary systems.
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She is now living in Manila putting her financial and business development acumen to work to develop alternative building materials and modular housing systems for low income groups.
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Now the British believes the key lies in rebuilding roads and water systems so farmers can grow alternative crops and get them to market.
Kemmerer, a professor of computer science at the University of California Santa Barbara, knows too much about New Jersey's alternative: the embattled Sequoia touchscreen voting systems used throughout the state.
It called for the rapid development of new ways to shut down sources of interference, new laws to punish offenders more harshly and for alternative, non-GPS-based backup systems to be deployed.
Nuclear propulsion systems may offer a less costly alternative.
The real world systems offering personal accounts as an alternative to Social Security all suffered some losses in the financial crisis, but none of them failed and most of the losses have since been recovered, with workers continuing to enjoy far greater long term returns and benefits from the fully funded and invested personal accounts.
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Xtreme, which has attracted backing from venture capital firms and corporate investors like Dow Chemical, Fluor and BP Alternative Energy, is developing large-scale digital power systems for renewable energy and micro-grid applications.
Systems makers like Dell have got to want an alternative to keep Intel honest--but who?ll be first to risk the retribution?
By the same token, the yearning for government spending on "infrastructure" to stimulate economic activity creates an opening for the new president to push the kind of green projects that fit his call for a transition to alternative energy sources, including new kinds of mass-transit systems.
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The lot also includes some handouts that cover Ferractor-based systems, which Univac used in their logic circuits as a magnetic alternative to the vacuum tubes used in earlier computer designs.
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The alternative case is hardly more than descriptions of the failures of the Canadian and British systems.
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There's a second alternative: A growing number of New Yorkers are going for duct-free AC systems that involve a small, wall-mounted indoor fan powered by a separate outdoor unit the size of suitcase.
John Gauss, commander of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, said he believes the NIPRNET redesign offers a better security alternative than the almost total retreat from the Internet advocated by Lt.
This would also be very much like the highly successful private retirement investment systems used for the federal employee Thrift Savings Plan and for the private alternative to Social Security used for local government workers in Galveston, Texas.
With budget cuts looming, the U.S. government should focus its resources on programs and systems that have proven to be effective, and this includes the more reliable alternative to MEADS: the modernized Patriot missile.
Thus, recognising that family wellbeing and development directly correlates with the educational standards of women, PEPE initiated the Alternative Community Education Programme (ACEP) in an effort to combat illiteracy using traditional knowledge systems as the principal basis of learning.
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