Over the longer term, the global footprint should enable Nokia to upsell these consumers although the lead-time is lengthy.
The gain in lead-time should nevertheless provide governments and non-governmental organisations with the opportunity to plan for a bad season.
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While companies can generally hire employees relatively quickly to meet increasing demand, there is a definite lead-time to adding capital equipment.
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Mr. Hobson says it is an "unwise and unnecessary use of limited resources" to try, as Mr. Bush has recommended, to shorten significantly that lead-time.
As Mr Streiff pointed out this week, Airbus must also catch up with Boeing in product development, cutting its lead-time for new aircraft from seven to five years.
It was first talked about several years ago, and we really were looking for a subject that would, given a long lead-time, still be timely and interesting several years down the road.
The long lead-time for the 10-inch, Windows 7 tablet means that Dell will likely miss the opportunity to sell the device as a back-to-school item, though it would make the important holiday season.
The lead-time associated with upside in the semiconductor world is huge, sometimes as long as 26 weeks (supply is tight right now so this rule is in effect and Apple had major supply problems with the iPhone 4 and iPad).
As the clean-up and recovery consumes what stock is in place for earth movers, road graders and other heavy equipment for construction and infrastructure is put to work, the long lead-time required to build and deliver these machines may be a boon for companies like Caterpillar and its partners.
Converted tries from Rocky Elsom and Quade Cooper gave the Wallabies a well-deserved 14-0 lead at half-time.
Munster regained their 15-point lead by half-time with number eight James Coughlan forcing his way over.
Farrell added another three points from a penalty to give them a 10-point lead at half-time.
Tries from Jamie Heaslip and Keith Gleeson helped the home side into a 18-3 lead by half-time.
Cameron Phelps created a three-man overlap for Briscoe's second to give Hull a 28-0 lead at half-time.
Tom Varndell then went over to give Wasps a five-point lead at half-time.
Chris Paterson added the conversion to give Gloucester a 14-7 lead at half-time.
Toby Flood kicked a penalty before setting up Murphy's try as the Tigers edged into a 10-0 lead at half-time.
England held a 33-23 lead at half-time thanks to the defensive agility and athleticism of Mkoloma and the attacking accuracy of Brownfield.
Schalk Brits and Richard Wigglesworth gave Sarries a comfortable 17-7 lead at half-time, with Billy Twelvetrees converting a penalty try for Leicester.
St Helens dominated the first half, however, and tries from Maurie Fa'asavalu and Ade Gardner gave them a 16-10 lead at half-time.
Tries from Colin Charvis, Rhys Thomas and Rhodri Gomer-Davies gave Dragons a 25-13 lead at half-time, Nicolas De Gregori replying for Treviso.
Hull took a 18-4 lead at half-time thanks to tries from Willie Manu, Graeme Horne and Danny Tickle, with Keith Senior scoring for the Rhinos.
The Exiles went ahead through two Peter Hewat penalties, and tries from Delon Armitage and Paul Hodgson allowed them to take a 21-9 lead into half-time.
In an ill-tempered contest at the DW Stadium, the Warriors suffered their third defeat in four home games despite going in with a 10-0 lead at half-time.
But Argentina failed to take advantage of that miss with Todeschini's penalty drifting wide as the home side had to settle for a 10-9 lead at half-time.
But then the home side lost back-row Robin Sowden-Taylor to the sin-bin for slowing down ball, Priestland kicking the resulting penalty for a 11-6 lead at half-time.
The decision looked harsh, but Connor at least found his range with the boot as the fly-half slotted two penalties to take a 6-3 lead into half-time.
Favourites Cushendall started to stack up the points with scores from Declan McKillop (2), Brian Delargy and Aidan Delargy giving them a 1-06 to 0-5 lead at half-time.
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Parks added a second penalty to give the Blues a 13-10 lead at half-time, although David Blair was wide with a drop-goal that would have tied the scores at the break.
Danny Sculthorpe sent a teasing grubber kick into the right-hand corner and Blanch reacted quickest, and although Drew missed the conversion he added a goal to give them 6-0 lead at half-time.
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