The burden of compliance on the component-makers was nearly 8% of foreign sales in 2006.
Whatever your aims, investments are only one component--in many cases a relatively small one--in meeting your goals.
It also has a gender component -- formal sector employment for females has increased 136% in the last twenty years.
Its first product, 3Dpartsource.com, a visual component-sourcing platform for industry, has the potential to disrupt the age-old sourcing process for parts in the manufacturing supply chain.
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Or it may be a cyclical one: Asia's component-makers often prosper in the early stages of the Western business cycle, as companies rebuild their inventories in anticipation of brighter sales to come.
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Pertierra said a 1986 federal law supplies precedent to require completion of a civics component -- such as basic knowledge of English and U.S. history and government -- to grant permanent resident status.
That sword in his right ... hand and the water pistol in his left can be replaced on another swappable character's bottom half -- its motion component -- creating an altogether new character.
Last year, Dutch chip-maker NXP released a new type of mobile audio component -- the TFA9887 -- that allowed a mobile device to monitor its speaker system in real-time in order to max out volume without risking damage to the driver.
And I believe those customers are quickly going to embrace the idea that there are two very distinct categories of cloud-services providers: the half-steppers that want to keep the old-fashioned burden of component-level buying and building on the shoulders of customers, and the new generation of full-service cloud providers who deliver complete and optimized cloud stacks.
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He asserts that component suppliers have seen calendar Q1 iPhone orders cut to the 25-30 million range, from 35-40 million, due mostly to component over-build in the December quarter.
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The newly available SwiftKey 4 -- Flow is just a component here -- brings Android writers the promised gesture-based typing along with Flow Through Space, which lets users glide to the spacebar to keep typing rather than pause after every word.
What started out as a gimmick to entertain fans during breaks in the action has become an ultra-important component for major- and minor-league sports teams looking to market at the grass roots by nabbing new fans at increasingly earlier ages.
In a 2011 ruling, Duffy wrote that while Yousef was awaiting trial, he had been trying to collect urea -- a component of urine -- and a type of watch that had been used in a detonator in the airline bomb plot.
The Blu-ray component of the HT-F6500W also offers Samsung's latest Smart Hub and AllShare features, along with full web browsing capabilities.
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The fanciest ones did nothing more exotic than break down the indexes into a handful of component parts--consumer staples, health care and financials, for example.
Fellow Dow Jones industrial average component Wal-Mart rose 1.1%, after the company said it will pay its next dividend Dec. 27, rather than Jan. 2 as planned.
The only quibble: There was an add-on component to my service--a sports massage--but my therapist didn't ask whether I had injuries or what sports I play before she commenced.
But the component parts -- cutting taxes for middle-class families, cutting taxes for small businesses that are hiring our veterans and hiring the long-term unemployed, putting teachers back in the classroom -- here in the state of Hawaii, you have a bunch of kids who are going to school four days a week because of budget problems.
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In most high-tech fields today, the know-how needed to make a component, sub-assembly or finished product has progressed too far and too fast for the average worker to be able to propose any useful innovations.
Solid enough to make me wish for a single-player component other than simply bot-battling.
Because of the capital-intensive technology component and the highly-integrated carrier relationships, it seemed inconceivable that any other company could break into the handset wars.
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The WMO data, meanwhile, confirms that atmospheric concentrations of the three gases principally responsible for the man-made component of the greenhouse effect - carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide - all rose during 2009.
Another key point: Vascepa contains purified ethyl EPA, an omega-3 fatty acid, but does not contain significant amounts of docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, another omega-3 fatty acid that is a major component of non-prescription fish-oil pills, as well as Lovaza.
Nano-composite plastics are going to be a major component of nano-enhanced food packaging, and Nanocor has more than 40 issued patents in its intellectual property portfolio, primarily regarding the creation of nanoclays and nanomer surface treatments.
Although the number of F-22 fighters was capped at 187, the Air Force would increase its long-range strike capabilities by 50 percent and the penetrating component of long-range strike by a factor of five by 2025.
That pushed the market-value component of the index to a two-year high of 855.6 (the actual peak was on Jan. 28 at 856.3).
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And the specific cause of the dip below 10K--Dow component Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people) dropping 5% after European Union regulators stepped up their antitrust investigations--was bland in the extreme.
But what we do know is that we agree on this: The middle-class tax cuts -- which I think this is a little-known fact -- are the single biggest component of the so-called fiscal cliff.
The final sign of a turnaround, which I call "long-term value creation, " occurs if and when the country's leaders seriously address long-term competitiveness issues: quality of products, value-added component of exports, acquisition of state-of-the-art technology and educational reforms.
In addition, Panasonic's commitment to quality-at both the component and finished goods level-results in a total of more than 500 checks and tests during and after production.
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