Industry checks find no reason for worry about supply chain effects from the issues in Japan.

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While Bernanke was accurate to say inflation and the effects of supply chain disruption in Japan would prove to be transitory, he still holds on to his prediction that economic activity will pick up in coming quarters.

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Until now, Viewpoint's strategy has been to place itself at the bottom of the feeding chain: film studios and special-effects houses customise its models before Steven Spielberg and his ilk weave them into their story lines.

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When we have hurricane effects here, the next day I hear my neighbors revving up their chain saws, as I do mine, to put those fallen trees to some good use.

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If drug developers could better target their inhibitors farther down the prostaglandin chain, they might produce powerful drugs that could fight pain and avoid unknown, possibly fatal, side effects.

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Toyota had to face the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan two years ago, disrupting its global supply chain and causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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