Traditional marriage laws may support legitimate goals like promoting intact, reasonably stable wedlock between mothers and fathers for children, or simply stem from a desire to not experiment with a core unit of civil society.
The Justices can help the Constitutional system, the country's political temper and the Court's reputation by letting the people decide how to define the core family unit of society.
"As more hardware companies announce plans to incorporate Intel's Thunderbolt technology into their products, we aim to create quality accessories that take advantage of Thunderbolt's blazing fast speeds and other benefits, " said Martin Avilla, general manager of Belkin's core business unit.
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Furthermore, the unit's 900MHz x 2 high-performance dual-core chipset boosts the unit's image processing capacity so consumers can enjoy the highest picture quality and the fastest web-browsing speed.
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The core four-piece unit is built to play big, with Tony "Doggen" Foster on guitars and bass, Kevin Bales on drums, Tom Edwards on keyboards, and Mr. Pierce on guitars and keys.
That thinking changed on March 28, 1979, when a small valve stuck open, cooling water escaped and the reactor core of TMI's Unit 2 began to melt.
The end result was that the unit suffered a partial core meltdown, and the public lost trust in the nuclear industry as a whole.
Barrick said it is looking to sell some non-core assets such as its energy unit, as well as mines with short lives and high operating costs.
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This particular unit sported an Intel Core i5-3427U chip (capped at 2.3GHz instead of 2.8GHz), a vibrant IPS panel, a fingerprint scanner, front and back cameras, 4GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD -- twice the announced capacity, for some reason.
It has decided to divest its office and consumer products unit and focus on its core businesses.
We earned their business and achieved what we set out to achieve: unit volume growth in our core crops, a successful implementation of our agricultural productivity strategy and sustained cost-discipline across our operations.
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The company says that it is shutting the unit down to focus on its core networking business, and despite positive revenue growth, we believe this is probably the right move.
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Until now all these devices have been one-off prototypes, but CUPP's partnering with Origin to make the PunkThis board available as an option on the EON11-S. The machine we played with was a pre-production unit using CUPP's single core ARM module running Gingerbread, but the company is working on a multi-core version with Jelly Bean.
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Purcell pushed Mack out in 2001 and retained control of the firm until the spring, when he faced unrelenting pressure from shareholders to divest the firm of the underperforming brokerage business and the credit-card unit and focus the firm back on its core strength: institutional securities.
The Cray XK7 system contains 18, 688 nodes, with each holding a 16-core AMD Opteron 6274 processor and an NVIDIA Tesla K20 graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerator.
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But Moynihan has spent much of the last year pushing to get BofA working again by cutting costs with his Project New BAC plan, and selling non-core assets like its non-U.S. wealth management unit, for instance.
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The problem: While Intel makes a mighty fine central processing unit (CPU)--its Centrino 2 and Core 2 products can be found in most of the world's laptop and desktop computers--the company has stumbled repeatedly when it has tried to break out of that market.
The Fed said that core inflation was increasing but that productivity gains have held down the rise in unit labor costs.
The company is also on track to bring impending IPO of its animal unit Zoetis as part of its strategy to focus on non-core assets and we will look for updates on the progress.
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Mr Agnelli had adopted a strategy of nursing Fiat's core car business back to health, but the group remains under pressure to put the auto unit up for sale.
Packed in their 7-by-2-foot titanium-framed fiberglass bodies are terabytes of cellphone flash storage, a dual-core ARM processor running open Linux software, a battery pack, sensor arrays, a GPS unit, and wireless and satellite communications systems.
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In corporate news Ford Motor is in talks to sell its Volvo unit, the culmination of a prescient multiyear strategy to raise cash and to concentrate on its core American brands.
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