"They trudged in the dark, carrying our precious samples that we stored from experiments we have already completed, " says Barcellos-Hoff.
Toshiba, IBM and Germany's Siemens have already completed a prototype of a 256-megabit DRAM, which is expected to be manufactured in 2000.
The Isle of Man's senior swimming team have already completed the challenge to help raise money for their trip to the Island Games in Bermuda.
On the site, some of the earthworks have already been completed together with some of the water, sewage and other utility systems and a few roads have been laid.
Two years of assessment have already been completed to understand the physical, environmental and engineering constraints of building out in the Irish Sea.
There are projects updating the seismic strength of structures (although most of those projects have already been completed), updating the electrical system to give more flexibility, adding special track to give the trains greater maneuverability between tracks, etc.
Safety trials of the vaccine have already been successfully completed, and tests to work out its effectiveness have also yielded positive results.
Indeed, of the nearly 6.2 GW of newly installed wind energy projects that elected the cash grant incentive, the LBNL analysts discount nearly 60% of them as projects for which the grant may not have been essential for completion (e.g. projects were already completed or would have otherwise been able to utilize the production tax credit, or PTC, to help finance the projects).
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In practice, though, the government customer often derails those plans by continually tweaking requirements after contracts are signed, forcing contractors to go back and redo tasks already thought to have been completed.
Twenty-three athletes have agreed to team up with GPW, with 14 projects already completed, covering eight sports thus far.
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If they have completed projects and built a good reputation, then they most likely already have a direct relationship with banks and other investors.
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Spokesman Jim Foley said the department takes the GAO findings, which were completed 10 days ago, very seriously and that a number of flaws have already been corrected.
Only on this understanding was David Trimble, leader of the Ulster Unionists, able to persuade his party to retreat from its earlier position of insisting that it would never sit in government with Sinn Fein unless decommissioning was already under way (itself a retreat from the position that decommissioning would have to be completed first).
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