But they are doing it as an integrated operation with all the departments concerned working together.

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His concerns included "whether the Bas fleet will remain under the control of Bas and not be merged with the NOC fleet, and whether Bas will continue to be an integrated operation carrying out a substantial research programme as well a providing the presence in Antarctica, policy advice to government, and wide-ranging scientific collaboration".

BBC: Glacier, Antarctic (Image: BAS)

Another rationalization under consideration: combining the oil and gas operation with PreussenElektra to form a single, integrated energy operation.

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Holding has integrated his ranching operation, purchasing two feedlots in Wyoming to fatten his own cattle.

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Graff can count one potent rival, the Israeli Lev Leviev ( see FORBES, Sept. 15, 2003), who has set up a diamond operation even more vertically integrated than Graff's.

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Behind this retail chain is a wholesale buying operation: Graff Diamonds International is vertically integrated, taking stones from the rough shapes that come out of the mine to the display case.

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There were plenty of opportunities for generating efficiencies, because the operation had coalesced as a result of mergers and acquisitions from numerous legacy cultures that had only partially integrated practices.

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The key instruments of UNESCO that determine this strategy include the Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1974) and the Declaration and Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy (1995).

UNESCO: Education