Because kits are now distributed to fewer centres and every ball is coded (so that inspectors can trace strays), manufacturers have better control of production.
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In fact, consolidation is happening because the government believes it can ensure better pollution oversight, labor conditions and quality control of production processes in large state-run enterprises than in the multitude of tiny private businesses that cut corners in pollution controls and make mistakes like getting melamine into the dairy supply chain.
"I'm very aware as a creative person that those who control the means of production control the creative vision, " he says.
He likens it to the way a Hollywood film might be very different from the original script - and that Shakespeare was unusual in getting control of the production process.
Also on 15 November, Russian President Boris Yeltsin took control of the production and distribution of -- and the hard currency revenues associated with -- oil, diamonds, gold and other precious metals on Russian territory .
Khodaidad says the Afghan government is largely powerless to control the production of opium while Taliban extremists, who now control and draw funding from drug crops, control cultivation areas despite major international military efforts to push them back.
These same three control two thirds of production capacity.
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The sentiment to mine and produce rare earths outside of China does not fall squarely on the shoulders of these two companies but it is still believed that bigger companies will gain more control of mines and production compared to smaller mining companies.
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The purchase of TNK-BP gives the Russian government control of roughly one-third of oil production in Russia.
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Its control of each stage of production helps Smithfield to trace back any problems with pathogens and address them.
When there was a manufacturing based economy, this gave the workers some control over the means of production and therefore, a strong negotiating position.
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We wouldn't expect this solution to replace human camera operators anytime soon, but it's certainly a viable method for adding angles and placing a bit more control in the hands of production teams, even after the fact.
Advisors can control every aspect of their future production except for the last one.
The "Zero Motorcycles" app is the world's first mobile application with the ability to control the performance characteristics of a production motorcycle.
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It has no FDA approved instrument or can really control 100% of its chemistry production, we are indeed very far from a full clinical systems hospitals are known for.
Uribe's efforts have been focused on combating all the armed groups that control all facets of illicit drug production in Colombia, particularly the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
Burroughs depicts a terminal capitalist world: the deadly deceits of the market, big business, state control and technological terror, and the mass production of mindless subjects.
Indeed, Gadhafi may have enough forces on the ground, a mix of paramilitary and elite army, to prevail, or at least to maintain control of the west and significant oil production.
It will keep at home development and production of critical computer control systems, and much else.
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The company was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 500 miles from the Andes to Colombia's coast.
It was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 800 kilometers from the Andes to the coast of Colombia.
In short, all the producers of Parmigiano-Reggiano have an iconic vision of what the perfect cheese should look like, feel like, smell like and taste like, and all of its production and quality control is geared to produce exactly this result.
Yet the film is beset by incoherence and implausibilities that are perplexing, given the close relationship between the Wachowskis and the director, Mr. McTeigue -- this is not one of those familiar cases, it's safe to say, where the writers lost control of their material when it went into production.
With full control of its plant in Abu Dhabi, Hilong has an additional drill pipe production capacity of 11, 023 tons, compared with its 44, 753 tons on the mainland.
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The acquisition of related manufacturing processes can, moreover, be of enormous value to Soviet production of such hardware as missile subassemblies, fire-control systems, radar systems, and computers.
They argue the government aggravated the situation when it took control of land owned by white farmers, which triggered a sharp drop in production and exports of agricultural goods.
Its control over both the production and the enforcement of legislation gives the commission enormous power, in a Union in which half of all new laws now emanate from Brussels.
The complaint claimed that "Anheuser-Busch employs some of most sophisticated process control technology in the world to precisely monitor the alcohol content at the final stages of production, and then adds additional water to produce beers with significantly lower alcohol contents than is represented on the the labels".
Before joining Linear, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used a surplus flight computer from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to research the control of fermentation for use in fields such as pharmaceutical production.
Some economists have argued that just-in-time methods of inventory control, which allow firms to adjust production more quickly to changes in sales, should help to prevent an unwanted build-up of stocks and so smooth out the economic cycle.
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