Combining both 32-bit and 64-bit operations on the same silicon also raises the question of which execution path within the processor takes priority during dual calculations.

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"The company was struggling a bit and was downsizing operations, " he says.

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European operations struggled a bit, especially in Germany.

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Chevron, for example, recently announced it saw its Q4 revenues coming in a bit weaker than expected on soft downstream operations.

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At the same time, it's patently obvious that commercial news operations in Britain such as ITN and Sky are every bit as capable at broadcast journalism as their vast, publicly funded rival, and that this is simply a byproduct of competition.

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"What it will enable us to do is, taking into account all of the best data that we have, make decisions about evacuations and other measures at a level that is a bit more refined, " Caswell Holloway, the deputy mayor for operations, told reporters Friday at City Hall.

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MTV's victory, though, is pyrrhic: both operations are still losing money, although Channel V is a bit closer to breaking even.

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He didn't have to build ground operations in some of these key states that had primaries that fell a bit later on the calendar.

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There are challenges and the majority of their cash is located overseas from their international operations, and to transfer it back to the United States would cost quite a bit in taxes.

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