Around half of fixed platforms in the UK sector of the North Sea have exceeded their original design life, which was often 25 years.
At present, there are firm orders for 108 fixed satellites, more than half of them additions to the current stock of 140.
However, the company is taking immediate action to correct the issue and will start delivering the fixed chipsets in the second half of February 2011.
Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.
Its marine segment, which produced 13% of first-half sales, provides fixed and portable GPS devices such as chartplotters, sounders and fishfinders.
Severn Trent says half of all leaks are fixed within the company's own three-day target.
More than half of the envisaged corporate fixed investment in large projects has been coming from infrastructure since 2008-09.
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Nine years ago Mr Li used a briefly fashionable internet start-up with a lofty valuation to acquire slightly more than half of Hong Kong's fixed-line telecoms monopoly.
The man, dealing with higher co-payments on a fixed income, had cut back to filling only half his medication prescriptions for his high cholesterol and diabetes.
U-turn, the government backed half-way down, and elections for the assembly were fixed for November.
Money Programme research shows more than a million people think they've been tricked into new contracts for gas and electricity supplies and nearly half a million people have been tricked into new contracts for fixed line telecoms.
Under 5% of the US wage earners make the minimum wage or less, which means that since wage earners only represent a bit over half the total work force (the rest are paid a fixed salary), those who earn the minimum wage make up less than 3% of the total work force.
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They have to sell many cars to cover the fixed expenses but after the break even, each additional car sold is probably half profit to the bottom line.
This arm-and-sector design, around for half a century, made sense in the old days because the elbowlike fixed fulcrum allowed for the hand cranks to stay in one place.
Or, rather, it employs two ring-shaped half-pipes that rotate with respect to one another (the lower one remaining fixed while the upper one revolves along with the building).
The nation's courts, acting on their own, ordered seizure of wholesale stocks and fixed a third price, for retail sugar, at 40 rupees per kilo, which was half the price in neighboring Afghanistan.
That's because over half the investment portfolios of both Ping An and China Life are in bonds and other fixed-income assets, while only 10% is in equities.
That security is why people on a fixed income rather put their savings in US government bonds and get 3%, instead of putting half their life savings into a bond like the 10 month old, higher yielding, Oppenheimer Emerging Markets (OEMAX) mutual fund.
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Under the plan, knives with blades that are 2.36 inches or shorter and less than a half-inch wide will be allowed in airline cabins so long as the blade is not fixed or does not lock into place.
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Under the new rules, which go into effect April 25, knives with blades that are 2.36 inches (6 centimeters) or shorter and less than a half-inch wide will be allowed in airline cabins so long as the blade is not fixed or does not lock into place.
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The prices mobile operators charge for fixed-line-to-mobile and for mobile-to-mobile interconnection are expected to fall by half over the next four years, says Philip Townsend, a telecoms analyst at Natexis Bleichroeder, a brokerage.
Even at Microsoft, not everyone applied the patch that would have fixed a known flaw exploited by the so-called SQL Slammer worm, which is estimated to have disrupted half of all internet traffic in January.
When he took over the Civil Aeronautics Board for President Jimmy Carter in 1977 air travel was regulated to the hilt, with prices, routes and returns all fixed and aircraft, which could compete only on the number of flights and the meals they served, flying half-full.
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