America cannot long lead the family of nations if we fail the family here at home!
In almost all cases, we will either have a long lead time or none at all.
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With only two washing facilities in the country and no domestic supply of fabrics, trims or even packaging materials, long lead times are required.
Long lead times persist for oil drilling rigs, mining equipment and some other specialized machinery, but generally companies face no supply limitations when considering expansion.
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Apple did a moderately long lead-up to its first iPad, touting it at a January 2010 press conference before bringing it to market in April.
And thanks to all those western management articles applauding Japanese business methods, the foreigners have a decade-long lead in finding a compromise between the two systems.
This does not require massive investment upfront or long lead-times.
So, eschewing traditional publishing houses (and their long lead times), within eight months the team had self-published Action Trumps Everything: Creating What You Want in an Uncertain World.
Research expenditures, for example, have a very long lead time.
Executives have cited the difficulty of that task as a key reason for the long lead-up to the new pay system and have been testing and debugging the system.
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That gap cannot be closed quickly, since the oil-production business has long lead times and any new oil will take a couple of years at least to come on stream.
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.
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.
What is more, if Congress is serious about procurement reform in the Pentagon, about reducing the unacceptably long lead-times from program inception to deployment, and about minimizing the costs of defense systems, it will find no better model than the approach used to bring on line successive generations of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
In the technology business with such long product lead times, one year appears to us to be significant.
In addition to being expensive, with long construction lead times, these projects face lengthy and costly regulatory hurdles.
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Not only is there evidence to show long hours lead to ill health they also create an unstable corporate culture.
They fear that the same sort of divisions among western governments that put off decisive action in Bosnia's war for so long will lead to similar prevarication in Kosovo.
Two control lines, generally 60 to 90 feet long, lead from the sides of the kite down to a padded bar about twice the length of a water-ski towrope handle.
The idea that audiences walked into Jurassic Park mostly unaware of its quality is one that resonates in the current age of long-lead review embargoes and spoilers included as marketing tools.
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It would be sombre news indeed, not only for Mr Adams but for all those who have hoped and worked so long to lead Northern Ireland into the promised land of peace and compromise.
Fountains may be allowed to flow, as long as they lead into ponds containing goldfish.
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Each song lasts as long as the lead singer can hold his or her breath.
The idea is that long relationships can lead to over-cosy ties and lax audits.
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which regulates auditing firms, is asking whether long tenure might lead to complacency.
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Sitting in place for long periods can lead to clotting in veins.
This is an astonishing reversal of Labour's long-held lead and an ominous portent for the party's chances at the next general election.
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Frontrunner Kim, whose long-held lead may be slipping as voters worry about his ability to handle a wounded economy, would do well to take note.
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