The business risks of using these services depend on two key requirements: durability (protecting your critical data from loss) and availability (keeping your systems up and running).
Politicians and interest groups claim, however, that spending cuts mean draconian reductions in public sector jobs and the loss of critical government services.
The UK government's proposed coastguard closures effectively mean cover falling from seven stations to three in just over a decade, leading to a loss of critical local knowledge and expertise.
In response to local concerns about the loss of critical food supplies, several governments have imposed taxes or other restrictions on exports: on a key ingredient of fertiliser in China, on grain in Argentina, on rice in India.
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Add to that a high crime rate, minimal cultural life, relatively high business costs for the area and a loss of critical wage-earning residents ages 25 to 44--and you end up being ranked 144 out of 150 among our Best Places.
Imagine how you would feel if the players on an NFL team went into a critical game more focused on laying blame on team members in anticipation of a loss than coming together to accomplish a critical win?
For that would suggest that when faced with incendiary charges by a critical regulator, and the potential loss of its licence, Standard Chartered felt it had no choice but to pay up.
But to implement this strategy seems to require that the company manufacture critical components in China, risking the loss of essential technologies.
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So despite its court loss, Brompton effectively scuttled the critical Yelp review.
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All of this reduced productivity translates into the loss of what should be a critical factor in the effort to offer more health care while containing costs.
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They worry about the loss of control on mission-critical functionality.
"His death at this critical stage that we are passing through is a great loss for Iraq, " al-Maliki said.
Creating more stable returns and preserving capital is critical to increasing compound returns over time since the lower the portfolio loss in a declining market, the lower the recovery needed to restore lost value.
This can be critical, he says, for elderly parents who are faced with financial strain after the loss of their partner.
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The plan "will worsen passenger services through the loss of thousands of frontline workers from trains, stations, ticket offices, safety-critical infrastructure and operational roles", the MPs warned.
Powell questioned whether the loss of American lives was worth liberating Kuwait from Iraq, opposed overthrowing Saddam Hussein and was critical of U.S. policy in Somalia and Bosnia.
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