In Europe the trucking industry has settled on a technology called selective catalytic reduction, in which urea is periodically injected into the exhaust system to break down the NOx, converting nitrogen oxides into (somewhat) harmless ammonia.
If the excessive input continues, the chaos eventually becomes so great that the system begins to break down.
But as money became easier, the system started to break down.
He says elected officials may be hesitant to create yet another victims fund, but without a fund, he says, battered New Orleans court system could break down under the strain of post-Katrina lawsuits.
Every month it appears more likely that the pay-TV system will break down.
One of the most powerful findings of this research is that a compelling personal story helps tremendously to make the health care reform law real, break down resistance, tap into anger about how things were under the old system, provide hope for how health care reform can make it better, and help voters retain knowledge of key provisions.
In addition, he said, the background-check system tends to break down on weekends, when gun shows often swell traffic.
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Democracy is changing before our eyes - more elected posts, more voting systems, more choice as the two-party system continues to break down and, above all other things - more unpredictable than ever.
"I think the bullet train system is not stable and may break down in extreme weather conditions, " said Professor Zhao Jian, a transportation expert with Beijing Jiaotong University.
Users can program the system to flag sudden shifts in default probabilities, then break them down to see if they result from changes in leverage, stock prices or stock-price volatility.
Eventually such an arrangement must surely break down, bringing a new currency system into being, just as Bretton Woods emerged in the 1940s.
So the company has teamed up with a small venture-backed company that has developed a system that can break down some of that trash fast and turn it into natural gas, electricity, compost or all of the above, making some of that trash even more valuable.
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