This focus has evolved naturally from their initial steps to identify core sustainability principles for various crops.

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Furthermore, they have not developed repeatable steps to accomplish core tasks.

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"So far, the Syrian regime has taken, really, almost no steps toward fulfilling the core commitments of the Annan proposal, " he said.

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This means that all the main crisis countries are now taking steps to address the core competitiveness challenges at the heart of the situation.

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There's also a higher-end J10Q variant that steps up to a Core i5, 128GB SSD, 2GB of RAM, WiFi, HDMI output, inbuilt WiMAX model and an SDXC slot, with the craziest aspect being the claimed 12 hours of battery life.

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We are also taking steps to divest certain non-core assets such as a smaller business in Italy.

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The beefier BX300 steps up to a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU, 1TB of storage spanning two 500GB drives, NVIDIA's 256MB GeForce 8600 GTS graphics card, and a 7.1-channel sound card.

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Jewell called those steps essential in order to maintain the department's core mission to serve the public.

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So far as we can tell, the memory and hard drive stay pretty consistent as you move up in configurations, though you can opt for a Core i5 or i7 CPU. The highest-end confg also steps up from integrated graphics to a 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT630M GPU. Curious?

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