The deals were structured so that Cnooc didn't get an ownership stake in Chesapeake itself and didn't control production.
Specifically, one vendor may control production by influence over multiple manufacturers at many different sites, thus leading to such shortfalls in production.
"Henry's premise was: The more you control production, the more you can control what you sell the car for, too, " said Ford Motor's historian, Robert Kreipke.
But in return, this makes it easier for the company to control production quality, as well as to make it harder for Asian copycats -- Gustafsson said you just don't know if a contractor sets up a second line to produce clones.
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"I'm very aware as a creative person that those who control the means of production control the creative vision, " he says.
He knew that the same gene that caused fragile X also helped control protein production.
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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Its ingenious production control is a hat tip to Tim Cook who built the supply chain over a decade.
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.
As Lehman analyst Tony Butler pointed out on the call, cutting manufacturing costs may require buying more "intermediates" from outside the company, where Merck will have less control over their production.
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 .
The government argues the licensing procedure will assist quality control and boost domestic production.
Even then, you can control when you allow production IPv6 traffic to your web server.
Morales gave companies from Brazil, Spain, France and the U.S., six months to negotiate new contracts, providing Bolivia with far greater control over natural gas production.
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.
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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Its control of each stage of production helps Smithfield to trace back any problems with pathogens and address them.
But, he said, the company may have shortened that production schedule to control information leaks that could come from suppliers.
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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Since Davy Jones is on federal acreage, Moffett pointed out that another gating factor beyond his control is gaining the needed production approvals from the Minerals Management Service of the U. S. Department of the Interior.
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.
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.
It will keep at home development and production of critical computer control systems, and much else.
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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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The company said its safety audits are normally done annually, and there is also a locally based quality-control team that visits weekly during production runs.
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