But a strike by oil workers in Norway and heavy maintenance at North Sea fields has exacerbated the shortage this year and sent the price of Brent for immediate delivery much higher.
According to many studies, consumers who get a deal on free or cheap delivery are much more likely to make purchases.
Despite the growing role of government in American health care, government control over financing and delivery is much greater in all other OECD countries than it is here.
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The home side won a free-kick in a dangerous position in the third minute of injury-time but the hitherto impressive Stuart King completely overhit his delivery - much to Newry's relief.
With all due respect to the renowned Mr. Sheppard, a Yankee Stadium fixture for over five decades who has been ill and on the sidelines this season, his ultra-serious baritone delivery never did much for me.
"It doesn't cost as much as delivery, and there's some left over to take for lunch, " says Smith, 34.
Instead of focusing on delivery there was too much stress on "artificial targets".
For every two units of electricity provided to consumers through the conventional power generation and delivery system, as much as 98 units are wasted along the way.
Moreover, as suggested above, transportation costs are much lower and delivery times far shorter when goods are made here.
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Last Sunday, rebels said the defenders broke through the siege lines to receive a much-needed delivery of supplies under cover of darkness.
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Amazon avoids much of that with guaranteed delivery to its lockers, often housed in locations operating 24 hours a day.
Kozmo is also introducing ready-to-eat gourmet meals and has partnered with a few restaurants to deliver their food, much like existing restaurant-delivery services.
We are pleased that we are seeing government proposing a unification of the criminal justice system so that all of us can work together much more efficiently for the delivery of proper justice.
Some ministers worry that, when set alongside the Treasury's weapons for ensuring policy delivery, there will be far too much enforcement and too much time will be spent inspecting policies rather them making them work.
No one says that these education programs should be free (though come to think of it the delivery of education can be done pretty much at no cost), but at least give these people a chance.
With GPS, a central dispatcher in each big city figures out which trucks are closest to the delivery site and sends them out on much shorter notice -- constantly rerouting as customers cancel, delay or speed up their orders.
The CWU said delivery rounds had been revised, forcing too much work on the staff.
All the rage at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) connections now cover much more than just smart energy delivery and smart cars.
But here he sings with surpassing tonal beauty, his ringing high notes, effortless delivery and rich, masculine timbre evoking nothing so much as bright sunshine.
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It doesn't have the instantaneous delivery aspect of the Internet but you will get much higher resolution and better overall quality since you can store several hundred megabytes of video on a CD.
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That is not to suggest that anyone in my state would begrudge the use of federal funds to provide emergency assistance, though they might believe that state and local governments are much better suited for the planning and delivery of such emergency services.
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It's much the same principle employed by this experimental UPS delivery truck.
For a start, the order-to-delivery time is very long, up to two months, much longer than customers for true mass-market cars would be prepared to wait.
With the new plan, Blyk will be responsible strictly for the ad delivery technology, but either way, the result is pretty much the same: young'uns in the Netherlands will be able to get some voice minutes and texts every month in exchange for being delivered targeted advertising on their phones.
The Pakistan openers walked to the middle under intense pressure and it proved too much for Farhat, who shouldered arms to an inswinging delivery from McGrath.
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Much of India's nuclear strategy focuses on improving delivery vehicles.
Much emphasis in the policy sphere has been placed on the delivery of generic and cheap drugs to the developing world.
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But it may model its use of the technology on its smaller competitor VeriSign, which switches between traditional content delivery and cheaper peer-to-peer method, depending on how much a customer is willing to spend.
In that first spell, the impressive Sharma outbowled his more experienced new-ball partner Zaheer, who failed to find as much swing as usual early on, while the odd loose delivery was punished in a calculated manner by Hussey.
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