If Apple plans to introduce television sets late next year it will need to start spending on equipment to build those sets now.

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Plus, if Apple plans to introduce television sets late next year, it will need to start spending on equipment to build those sets now.

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The Army needed six brigade sets of prepositioned equipment deployed forward in Europe, Korea, and Southwest Asia with an additional Marine brigade set in Norway.

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From LEGO sets to enterprise IT equipment, examples abound of establishing a loyal customer base through the development of a flexible framework.

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The following year, 1982, they bought a warehouse, put in some manufacturing equipment and began making their own bedroom sets.

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Throughout the year, craftspeople carry sets of wooden characters and printing equipment to ancestral halls in local communities.

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For example, in 1999, the German multinational Siemens sold Saddam Hussein many sets of lithotripters under the rubric of medical equipment Iraq has been permitted to purchase as part of the so-called "oil for food" program.

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Along with the characters and sets, a Trek-like feel is conveyed by the weapons and equipment.

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