In the typical Japanese model, product development was frustratingly (for U.S. management) centralized in Japan.
Power is being ever more centralized in big, established companies.
In Afghanistan, where power has been progressively centralized in president Hamid Karzai, it is more important to gauge what he might be looking for in the U.S. elections.
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They say the auditing authority would be centralized in each state, so that each year a Web seller could be subject to a maximum of one audit per state, not 9, 600.
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Many believe that power has become so centralized in Venezuela that there are no checks and balances and the executive controls the Congress, the Supreme Court, the electoral commission, and the military.
The Democratic base is centralized in the so-called "Gold Coast" communities of West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale (Broward County), Miami (Dade County), and in both Tallahassee and the minority communities of the panhandle.
Some recent investments in centralized nuclear plants in other countries highlight and echo these lessons.
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The bitter irony of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of GOTV efforts in favor of a centralized, faceless organization in a far off place (in this case, their Boston headquarters).
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Why would you want to copy and distribute dozens of plastic DVDs to people, if you had it available to you in a centralized server on the cloud, in a secure environment that was only accessible by the people who needed to have access to it?
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The bill requires standardized swaps to be traded on an exchange or in other centralized trading facilities, the better to promote transparency in this little-understood market.
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There is nothing conservative about prohibition, which enlists the most centralized state power in displacement of domestic and community roles.
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Here in India, land pooling is being floated as an alternative to the centralized master planning approach in the nation.
Storing all its data in four centralized centers also allows the law firm to encrypt and better secure its data, as well as recover it in an emergency.
In this sense, she adds, tequila is better when produced in the traditional way it was prior to the centralized industrial methods that arose in the 1970s.
What if the servers were distributed to homes and offices instead of placed in a centralized location?
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Quick and easy access to films and television programming at a low monthly price, in one centralized website.
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Older men and women tend to think more in terms of organizing economic activity in a centralized, top-down fashion.
Monday morning around 5 am I was awoken by the scream of a carbon monoxide alarm in my centralized alarm system, letting me know the battery backup was failing.
Or imagine databases from many different sources, private and public, coming together in a centralized network that would look for patterns and try to translate them into new ideas for anticipating and preventing health problems.
Much of this added capacity came in the form of utility-owned, centralized projects, which rose to 226 MW in 2010 from 46 MW the previous year.
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Importantly, you may choose to put in place a centralized key management system to help easily manage your encryption technology.
The cars talk to other cars and the surrounding terrain with sensors, and also stay in touch with centralized command posts.
Typically, urban sprawl also creates nightmares for travelers, however the main points of interest to visitors in Manila are centralized, making suburban navigation unnecessary.
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An alternative money provider that was centralized would probably not survive long in any jurisdiction.
To handle the influx, the IRS centralized its review of these applications in an office in Cincinnati.
In place of a centralized database, many countries want a federated system where the identifiers are developed by a country or region.
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Bishop is bullish on eResearch because of its rapid growth, driven by its dominance of centralized cardiographic monitoring of patients participating in clinical drug trials.
So I think you're going to continue to see a very centralized form of government over there in the near term, but a lot of innovative thinking going on.
Software tools, in the form of centralized, Web-based management applications and platforms, are making buildings smarter and more energy-efficient by ensuring that lighting better matches the way we work today.
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