Given a start with some other fissile material (U-233, U-235 or Pu-239) as a driver, a breeding cycle similar to but more efficient than that with U-238 and plutonium (in normal, slow neutron reactors) can be set up. (The driver fuels provide all the neutrons initially, but are progressively supplemented by U-233 as it forms from the thorium.) However, there are also features of the neutron economy which counter this advantage.
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That 2% net margin is half that of larger rivals such as USX- U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Inland.
Available in the iTunes store, the innovative U-verse Easy Remote App lets customers easily use their iPhone or iPad as a U-verse remote control.
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The Japanese consumer isn't as over-leveraged as their U.S. counterparts, and their savings rate is higher.
They argue nations involved in the economic discussions this weekend must make a coordinated effort at bank recapitalization as well as a shared commitment to solving cross-border financial issues, such as dealing with non-U.S. banks that hold a significant amount of American paper.
So he decided to compete with the European manufacturers--as well as U.S. companies that might move into the space--by creating a higher-end product that would appeal to well-to-do parents.
Up six out of the past seven trading days, shares of Nucor are nearly as overbought in the short-term as U.S. Steel.
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The game is simple: Shift as many costs as possible to a high-tax jurisdiction such as the U.S. and move as much income as possible to a low-tax country such as Ireland.
What is the future that as far as thousands of jobs coming back from India to the U.S., as far as U.S.-India trade and economic relations?
For the May 2011 rate update, you needed the March 2011 CPI-U numbers (released in mid-April) as well as the September 2010 CPI-U numbers.
The system also has more or less the same book-inspired shape as Lenovo's U-series Ultrabooks, meaning when the notebook is closed, the top and bottom edges protrude ever so slightly beyond the sides, sort of like a hardcover shell cradling a spine full of pages.
Mr. Mukasey served as U.S. attorney general from 2007-09, and as a U.S. district judge from 1988 to 2006.
Recently his firm began converting scrap silver, whether it is jewelry, flatware or old coins such as pre-1964 U.S. quarters into pure silver.
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In the last few moments Ed Balls welcomed what he described as another U-turn to join those on pasties, churches, caravans and skips.
Most of the public only hears about one of them, the one the BLS refers to as U-3 (7.80% seasonally adjusted (SA) for September).
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The Air Force uses an array of aircraft, such as the U-2 spy plane, the high-altitude Global Hawk drone or satellites and systems that can gather intelligence from space.
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, who had called for the rise to be scrapped in an article for the Sun newspaper, described the move as a U-turn, but said he welcomed it.
The address on March 14th by Deputy Secretary of Energy Henson Moore before the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations entitled, "Soviet Energy in the 1990s" offers an excellent opportunity to illuminate for the public the results of such cabinet-level deliberations as well as U.S. objectives for the forging of "risk-sensitive" alliance policies.
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The facility -- officially known as the U.S. Army Confinement Facility-Europe -- is the largest U.S. military confinement center outside the United States.
The minister told CNN that Aristide had been granted permission to land in the country after Aristide himself -- as well as the U.S. and French governments -- requested it.
They had a very clear message as far as U.S.-India relations are concerned.
The pace of development is so fast, however, that national pride cannot put Asian languages in cyberspace as quickly as U.S.-based software companies can upgrade their offerings.
And also, from Carnegie, Mr. Ashley Tellis is telling the President, if he is listening, that the President will have a historic opportunity as far as U.S.-India relations are concerned.
Immigrants from countries with relatively small numbers in the overall population, such as Greece, are disproportionately more likely to own businesses, while immigrant women are twice as likely as U.S.-born women to be business owners.
He implicitly recognized that "countering the al-Qaeda" narrative is as crucial to the well-being of the U.S. as is any stringent new airport security standard or detection mechanism.
According to a 2005 Senate subcommittee report, Picco provided his services on a number of occasions from 1997 to 2003--overlapping with his Dialogue appointment as a U.N. special representative and undersecretary-general--as a consultant on Oil-for-Food to Bayoil, a company owned by Houston oil man David Chalmers.
Foreign-born scientists are more than twice as likely to win a U.S.-based Nobel Prize as their American-born colleagues, and are overrepresented in the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering.
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The Swiss-German duo Boy played SXSW as part of month-long U.S. tour behind "Mutual Friends" (Nettwerk), its album released here in late February.
The Syrian government and the opposition agreed to pull their forces from cities by Tuesday as part of an agreement brokered by Kofi Annan, the former U.N. secretary-general who now serves as the U.N. and Arab League special envoy on the Syrian crisis.
Obama can use the summit to announce concrete measures -- such as providing enablers -- to demonstrate U.S. commitment to heading off a security meltdown.
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