Their efficiency in terms of automatic control could end up making their technological innards even more complex and prone to problems--though Pouletty said manual control was available as well.

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"It is ironic that a man whose own organization is infamous for its insular, ineffective and uncertain command and control arrangements would be charged with resolving the infinitely more complex and problematic arrangements involved in Operation Desert Shield, " observed Frank J.

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What makes any potential tie-up all the more complex is that any stadium involved in the World Cup comes under the control of the International Rugby Board.

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The single biggest opportunity for more efficiency, for eliminating what is truly waste, resides in real-time, dynamic control of complex systems, from commercial buildings and engines to factories and homes.

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Infoblox CEO Robert Thomas explained in an interview with Forbes this afternoon that the company focuses in an area called automated network control: effectively, the goal is to make it easier to manage complex corporate networks more efficiently.

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