The advent of a range of information, communications, and energy technologies provides us with an opportunity to upgrade the grid in a manner that will enable it to operate more efficiently, more reliably, and to spur innovation.

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The 2012 Audi A7 also offers an adaptive radar-based cruise control system that not only maintains a set speed and distance from the traffic ahead on the highway, it can operate as efficiently in stop and go traffic.

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In addition, doctors and hospitals need to move away from fee-for-service medicine so they have further incentives to operate more efficiently and therefore improve their health IT.

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Today it is imperative that defined contribution plans operate efficiently and with integrity because for most Americans these plans are all they will have to rely upon in retirement.

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Chandratillake says that, in order to operate efficiently, Blinkx doesn't transcribe every video it finds on the Web.

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Fossil-fuel plants also operate less efficiently at less than full power, so reducing demand for their power, without eliminating it, can offset carbon savings, according to the researchers.

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It enables the Chinese to build and operate their own space station, establish the technology that is necessary to efficiently send astronauts to the moon and beyond, build and operate fuel depots, and construct vehicles and bases in space.

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Because it involves something that the Bank of England and orthodox central banks almost never do - which is to lend money with the express purpose of getting it out into the real economy, rather than just providing the marginal credit that commercial banks need to operate efficiently.

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