Much equipment went missing including hundreds of laptops and printers and a dozen flat-bottomed boats.
With NATO and the U.S. military providing only advice and assistance on request, the Afghans' battlefield performance this year will decide how much equipment and training they still need.
In effect, the end of Earth Hour is actually more detrimental to climate mitigation because simultaneously turning on so much equipment all at once creates a surge current that results in a sudden spike in power demand.
Regarding the third element of the sizing standard, without a sense of against whom or when a buildup might be required, it is impossible for the military to judge how much equipment or which people and capabilities should be retained as it downsizes today in order to have the ability to expand in the face of a larger future threat.
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Pinching pennies at the initial 136-megawatt gas-fired plant outside Lahore, Ahmed uses as much secondhand equipment as he can, bought in the U.S. and refurbished.
Many Brazilian companies avoided capital spending in the days of protection and hyperinflation, leaving Brazil with only a third as much capital equipment a head as South Korea.
In the event, much of the equipment was brought in from America or Norway.
Biological improvement would be treated much as athletic equipment like baseball bats and running shoes.
Much of the equipment Komatsu sells in China is manufactured at its U.S. plant in Peoria, Illinois--two miles away from Cat's headquarters.
These ranged from transporting Marine and Army units and much of their equipment into battle, to search and rescue, special forces and electronic warfare operations.
Pretty much all the equipment here, they discovered, was wiped out.
Hundreds of thousands of landlines and cellular lines are out of commission, and flooding remains so bad that carriers can't reach much of their equipment to repair it.
Given that so much of military equipment is already old and that force transformation will result in many new systems and platforms, now is an opportune time to begin dealing with this problem.
Estes has sold out of 2009 model farm equipment, much of which sells for more than a quarter-million dollars.
Firms are allowed to depreciate some investments for tax purposes much faster than the equipment needs to be replaced.
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More compact, it has grey and black walls with much of the same equipment to be found down the street.
Medical supplies for the clinics are often donated, while RAM has purchased much of its larger equipment over the years.
Should they invest in new inventory and capital equipment, much less personnel?
There's so much high-definition equipment on the market today that I can't pretend to have looked at more than a fraction of it.
Before gaining access to equipment, much of which can leave operators without a digit if used incorrectly, members train in three-hour classes certifying their abilities.
The retrofitting of existing equipment, much of it badly degraded in the course of a decade of war, will be stretched out or abandoned altogether.
According to the Commerce Department, new orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, a proxy for how much companies spend on equipment, climbed 2.9% from November.
Even after the oil-for-food programme started, it took another three or four years to replace damaged equipment because much of the gear could not be imported.
Dr Kluk said her research should be complete in around a year, but it would be much longer before any equipment could be put on the market.
Sharing the same orbital plane would make is much easier to transfer equipment from Mir, although NASA, the leading partner in the new station, had not planned to use Mir transplants.
Despite a reinstitution of 100% depreciation for capital equipment, much of that demand was pulled into 2011, as the business community was uncertain as to whether or not the tax break was going to be reinstated in 2012.
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Given that much of the same equipment and techniques can be used to make both syrups, and the fact that birch sap generally starts to flow just as maple sap dries up, "it does present a tantalizing possibility, " van den Berg said.
We're seeing businesses beginning to make a shift to much more energy-efficient equipment.
As an example, consider MRI and CT scanners: high-tech, high-cost medical imaging equipment that enable much more accurate diagnoses and treatment planning.
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