Action 2000, a body set up by the government to co-ordinate its campaign to beat the bug, says that in the past year about 15% of the microchip-controlled production lines in factories have failed tests of whether they can cope with dates beyond 1999.
Without access to such a database, roboticists fear machines will be restricted to working in very tightly controlled environments such as production lines and never live easily alongside humans.
Production costs are controlled, staff is hired and every product that can be extended is extended.
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Only last week, Ukrainian customs officials seized a Russian cargo ship bound for Libya and carrying a multilaterally-controlled chemical used in the production of rocket fuel.
Between them, these controlled around 70% of annual production and a whopping 97% of sales outside Europe.
Earlier, Rosneft, another state-controlled oil firm, acquired the main production operation of Yukos, a private energy company that had been dismembered by Russia's state.
In practice, it is predictable that the result of this policy will be that manufacturing jobs associated with presently controlled technologies will move offshore, where production can take place at lower cost.
In a separate building across the road, a sanitary production facility -- access is controlled with a series of electronic locks and airlocks -- is gearing up to produce the company's H1N1 vaccine, PanBlok.
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For a century De Beers mines or those in contract to the company controlled 80% of the world's diamond production.
S. states, such as North Dakota, have experienced staggering job growth and revenue gains on the shoulders of encouraging hydrocarbon production (from private and state-controlled lands).
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Eni already is the biggest customer of Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled gas producer that is nationalizing most domestic oil and gas production.
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