Its development costs are not much less than the firm's total asset value.
Williams said the public's attitude about not doing much to protect current beach development would be fine if it were 100 years ago.
The problem is that just as price changes have to be severe to manifest any impacts on gas consumption, price changes on their own also tend not to do much to inspire the development of radical new tech solutions, unless prices are through the roof.
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Certainly Dr Brundtland's previous assembly of wise folk, the World Commission on Environment and Development, did much to persuade companies and countries that investing in sustainable development was not just good for the environment, but might yield economic returns too.
And while HP has, well, not done much of anything as regards research and development in a while, other brands have stepped in to fill customer needs.
He warns it could take two to three months from idea to product, since much of the work is in brainstorming, not development.
In some cases, production costs increase so much that it makes sense not to proceed with oil field development, which in turn impacts total oil production globally.
Much mining development in Australia is funded with equity, not debt, and is consequently not as financially stressed as you might think.
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Wal-Mart people are not stupid and to beat their product development one really needs to have a much higher risk tolerance to succeed at it.
The power to propel Apple stock much higher is likely to come from a new development that is not discounted in the price of the stock. iWallet may be the app that does it.
More than half of those had less than a year in service and were still in Entry Level Training, a phase of development not even in a category that can be considered qualified, much less skilled.
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The problem of cost overruns lies not so much in the F-22 itself as in the entire government procurement and development process, an area that badly needs reform.
Someone else with so much at stake might sound frustrated with the slow pace of development, but not Lauvergeon.
The UN has recently, and not before time, decided that population control should be one of its much-vaunted Millennium Development Goals.
While adequate weight gain during pregnancy is important for proper development of your baby, we now know that gaining too much weight is not good, as it can cause problems such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, increased risk of Caesarean section and infection, and more difficulty during labor.
Loomis backed much of Lawrence's work, not least his uranium fission research, which led to the development of the atomic bomb.
"We're not getting too much encouragement from the planning department at the moment and that's holding up the development of the site, " he said.
The election of an Argentine Pope is an extraordinary development, and one that prompts a comment from someone not likely to comment on religious, much less papal, affairs.
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The 15-country Southern African Development Community (SADC), which has been trying to break the impasse, does not carry much weight with either side.
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We've seen hybrid batteries, hairy capacitors, and ultracapacitors, but considering how much we depend on batteries, we're not ones to turn up our noses at yet another new battery development.
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