The president-elect of the Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales, Irene Curtis, has told me that while "outsourcing of policing services has been done by the private sector for years", she's concerned as to "where the line is drawn with core police services and where those services are provided by a company that is not under the complete control of the chief constable".

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The top of the line 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MBP with 2GB of RAM, as expected, was the leader of the pack, coming in with a Speedmark score of 226 ("19 percent faster than the older model"), and bested its companions in every category ranging from running Unreal Tournament 2004 to video Cinema 4D rendering.

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At Citi, IBM System z plays a major role as a core processing engine of virtually every line of business at the global financial services company.

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The bamboo core, which runs the length of the ski with its grain running in a continuous line, gives the Peacepipe a rigid core that can return as much energy as a skier can put in.

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