Based on dependencies and job-time lengths, a critical path is found through the process that defines the minimum total time to completion.

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The potential benefits are enormous, Dr. Charles Zimliki, who chairs the FDA's Artificial Pancreas Critical Path Initiative, testified before a Senate committee last year.

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We worked very hard to achieve that critical component of improving our fiscal path in a way that ensured we still could be making the investments that we think are critical for our country, competing for the high-wage jobs of the future.

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What Hedges fails to recognize, however, is that critical wine rating has grown in ubiquity on a parallel path with the growth of wines available to the consumer who are mostly inundated with a wall of wine and abundance of choice when all they truly want is a lovely bottle of vino for dinner.

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"Japan's economy faces the critical challenge of overcoming deflation and returning to a sustainable growth path with price stability, " the bank said.

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Critical Path Analysis tells you that you should begin the longest part of a composite task first, in order to reach the conclusion as soon as possible.

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The border security piece of the legislation is critical to getting support from Republicans, but some Democrats have opposed making a path to citizenship contingent on border security.

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They are telling their stories and charting their own path, but it is critical that we create pathways to broaden and build a new conversation about protecting women's reproductive health.

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To fully understand the risks that face Bernanke, the Fed and the U.S. economy, I invite you to take a step back from everything we know about monetary policy and observe the critical role of trust in determining the value of a currency and the future path of inflation and interest rates.

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Critical Path has convinced companies they don't need to be technology experts to become a communications company.

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