If past practice is any guide, the application of such a "fly-before-buy" acquisition approach would leave the Marines without an operational aircraft until the year 2005, and delay complete replacement of the CH-46 until 2015.

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Operational strategies take time to devise and implement, and an approach that makes sense one year can be obsolete the next.

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However, inherent in the U.S. approach to an MRC were a number of strategic and operational requirements against which an adversary could operate.

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This approach also enables business owners to switch cloud vendors without worrying about many of the operational details.

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In the current money market conditions, where banks have to approach the central bank for borrowing, the overnight lending rate is in fact the key operational policy rate.

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