Another 18% said they were interested in tablets but had not yet reached the testing or deployment phase.

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Yet, since then, there has been a strange lack of urgency to rapidly develop a robust series of systems that can destroy missiles of any size at any phase of deployment.

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The Pentagon has also said that the fourth phase of Eastern Europe missile shield deployment, if re-started, would not take place earlier than 2022.

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The nation's utilities have embraced the concept and are installing millions of automated meters on homes across the country, the first phase in Smart Grid's deployment.

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Some deployment orders are changing as the war enters a new phase.

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France is now expecting the deployment of thousands of African forces to support the second phase - driving the al-Qaeda-linked fighters from their desert hideouts.

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