The likely impact includes forest conversion to agricultural land, a drop in biological diversity as a result of monocropping and the massive use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides, unsustainable levels of water abstraction and a greater risk of water-related conflicts with local communities and neighbouring States sharing the same transboundary river systems.
They were accomplished by advanced engineering teams supported by massive investments by use-value participants such as IBM, HP, and Intel.
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Nautilus would use massive robotic machines, which are being built in Wallsend, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne, by a firm with long experience of marine engineering, Soil Machine Dynamics.
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They could then use their massive amounts of cash to substantially reduce their share count.
There are massive power plants to use the power to create, well, power.
Knack combines three fashionable trends: gaming, the use of massive amounts of data and the application of behavioural insights from science.
Sky customers will be able to use the massive capacity to store up to 350 hours of HD content, equivalent to more than two weeks' worth of HD TV viewing.
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But when the big funds use their massive weight to move shares up and down and make huge profits by their manipulation, it is too much to expect us to welcome them.
This week she announced that her bureau is aggregating Internet auction fraud complaints from state officials, consumer groups and online auctions such as eBay (EBAY) into a massive database for exclusive use by law enforcement.
So instead of charging for their service, Instagram decided to get the biggest base of users it could, use its massive membership as leverage to sell itself, and then let the buyer (in this case Facebook) figure out how to make money.
That means that we can usually stay in people's yards and use their showers, which is a lot better than pitching a tent in the massive campground and waiting in line to use the community showers.
Unusually for a car ferry, this ship would use three, massive computer-controlled sails to harness the maximum wind energy.
Arora said they use "a massive stack" of coffee grounds per day, and it comes to about 18, 000 kilograms of reused grounds per week.
Hotels consume massive amounts of energy and use 50% more energy than a similar sized residential building despite having only 55% occupancy rates on average.
The company was drawn by Dropbox's "ease of use and the massive, quick user adoption, " said Kristine Rogers, the company's vice president of business development.
However, the rapid development of the Internet and the massive unauthorised on-line use of protected content, where the "commercial" element is often missing, have given rise to a lively debate.
Significantly redeveloped, this WinMo will focus on an upgraded user experience with massive changes made to ease of use, as well as new features like global search and data correlation, meaning the device would, for example, know who you're talking to and give you instant access to email from only that person, or maybe a map with that pinpoints their address.
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That won't stop many analysts from speculating that the real purpose of the Medco divestment is to create a massive war chest that Merck will use to buy new drugs--or perhaps to merge with another drug firm like Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people), with which it co-promotes several drugs, or Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people).
The result was a massive shift in the way we all use computers to this day.
It was quite an event, on par with the massive budgets that fragrance houses like Coty use to back new scents.
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Storage space starts at 10.7 cubic feet with all three rows of seats in use and expands to a massive 67.6 cubic feet with both rear rows folded flat.
Because we are standing on the shoulders of these giant ideas, these giant principles, we think we have the potential to create something that is massive and valuable to the people who use it.
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Over the past week, researchers at Finnish security company F-secure have identified what they say is the first use of Storm's massive "botnet"--a collection of hundreds of thousands of computers hijacked with hidden software--to steal users' banking information.
But critics of the plan, notably the general aviation crowd on whom more of the burden would fall, complain that the FAA's financing proposal would hike taxes, reduce congressional oversight, and spawn a massive bureaucracy to track and tax the use of air traffic control.
Last year managers at Cornwall's council claimed there had been a massive shift away from the centres as visitors use the internet instead.
Liberal Democrat councillor John Marriott said the authority's plans to use reserves could lead to a massive black hole in funding, which could eventually lead to higher taxes and cuts.
For advertising to flourish in a wireless environment, finding those standards that will enable firms to reach massive audiences is perhaps more important than making use of intensely accurate targeting.
Other advances grow out of massive improvements in cost, quality and ease of use.
And it says we'll never use our nuclear deterrence to prevent a massive conventional attack either against the United States or against our allies.
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Though this isn't "full" Windows, per se, it's still compatible with almost any USB-powered storage device or peripheral that you'd normally use with a Windows machine, a massive pile of legacy devices.
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