Over the past decade or so the just-in-time concept of having supplies delivered at the last minute, so as to keep inventories down, has spread down the global manufacturing chain.
"They don't make the population immune, but they buy you time, either by preventing influenza from getting into the community or slowing down the spread, " Markel said.
The new approach uses four or five weaker defences, for example reducing the area of the wheat plant that Ug99 destroys, or slowing down the spread of the fungus.
Last month, Malawi's President Bakili Muluzi directed the country's police to arrest prostitutes found loitering on street corners and their clients in an effort to slow down the spread of HIV and Aids.
The pilot schemes, which aim to assess the effectiveness of the government's plan to slow down the spread of TB in cattle in England, will be monitored by an independent group for a period of six weeks.
With Sale on the back foot, the ball was spread down the line and outside centre Jamie Noon fed Williams to score in the corner.
If it's spread down the middle, 50-50, or 51-49, then I think Congress's inclination is going to be not to change but to maintain the status quo until there's a greater indication that there is support for change.
But business leaders are proving unwilling to let this relaxation in working culture spread lower down the company hierarchy.
The city of Shanghai has been utterly transformed, and development at an astonishing pace has spread far down the length of the Yangzi river, a region encompassing perhaps 300m people.
Production of many goods today is spread throughout the globe, which keeps costs down for consumers and allows innovation to spread more rapidly through increased competition.
She got down on the floor, spread her arms, stood up, stepped back to gaze from a distance, returned close up.
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Also, as the animals walk up and down on the rubbish and spread it around the streets it creates traffic hazards in congested areas of the city.
The more orders received, the more widely the huge development costs can be spread, bringing down the unit cost of an aeroplane with each one that comes off the line.
These applications can support the much higher cost of the initial products using this technology but the costs will likely go down with time allowing wider spread use of such high performance memory.
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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has conceded the lower house to Pier Luigi Bersani's centre-left bloc, played down the significance of the spread, and said he was not worried about market reaction to the vote.
But would a substantial slow-down or even an outright recession spread over to emerging markets?
If the stock market goes down--thus expanding the spread-- the private equity firm can mark up its companies and sell them to other companies.
Head teacher Dr Peter Kent said much of the school's success was down to Key Stage 4 being spread over three years rather than the traditional two.
But, as the latest example of how much Facebook memes can spread, The Lying Down Game group on Facebook currently has close to 34, 000 members from all over the world.
Cyprus is a small nation but news of bank runs at Bank of Cyprus and Laiki Bank spread like wildfire, bringing down global markets.
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At the United Nations today delegations from nearly 190 countries sat down to talk about efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
When tempers flare and feelings run high, spread your hands out, palms down, at about waist height, and gently push them down a couple of inches.
Hundreds of trees are being cut down on a Devon estate to prevent the spread of a killer plant pathogen with no cure, site managers have said.
You know, even the amount of money that's spent on the Climate Change Research Program, which is spread across several agencies, is down a bit this year, basically flat, but down a bit.
He edited that down to about 1, 000 work prints, spread them across the floor of his studio and tacked them to the walls for a final edit.
And sometimes we find that vast mountains of it have been worn down by erosion and that the cassiterite is now spread through the silt and sand of an ancient estuary.
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Morton made amends for that error when Wakefield upped the tempo early in the second half, the left winger being on hand to touch down from Daryl Millard's after Cooke had spread the play wide.
It is nine in the evening and the first of the homeless spread out the cardboard and begin to bed down.
This will not be eaten here, but brought down the block to Chili Padi, where a huge spread of Singaporean dishes awaits.
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