But both incumbents and new entrants were unenthusiastic about housing switching equipment in newcomers' buildings.
Indeed, the grubby courtyard next to a rubbish tip down the dirt lane housing the equipment does not inspire confidence.
The tractor-trailer was hauling a housing for drilling equipment southbound when the top right front corner of the load struck several trusses on the north end of the bridge, the patrol said.
From the housing of simple switching equipment, the market has rapidly evolved into the provision of sophisticated services based in state-of-the-art wired buildings.
The density of the housing and lack of firefighting equipment mean large numbers of shelters are often destroyed, but Friday's death toll was unusually high.
It used to be inventory excesses, equipment excesses, sometimes housing excesses, sometimes all of them.
"The issue is that dumping impoverished peasants on geometrically-plotted patches of virgin non-arable land, without any infrastructure, tillage equipment, venture capital, housing, water supplies, or training will result quite simply in an ecological disaster, " says Professor du Toit.
But Oshkosh made the same kind of mistake that many other well-run companies made at the height of the sub-prime housing boom, buying deep into the construction equipment sector at the top of the market and then suffering a staggering collapse in demand that impaired its capacity to meet debt obligations.
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The rise in housing starts since the market bottomed last year "means more demand for construction equipment and steel and lumber and other materials that we haul, " Mr. Tennant said.
Its best-known acquisition was JLG, a maker of lift equipment that Wall Street had come to regard as a proxy for the housing boom.
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Caterpillarwas badly hurt by the housing crisis and subsequent recession, which undercut demand for its construction and earth-moving equipment.
Caterpillar ( CAT - news - people )was badly hurt by the housing crisis and subsequent recession, which undercut demand for its construction and earth-moving equipment.
The equipment that was installed in the Burtons' house was thanks to a partnership between Aragon Housing Association and Bedfordshire County Council.
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