Unlike software or machinery, clever, innovative human beings cannot readily be replicated.
These workers control, operate or maintain machinery to generate electric power keeping your home or business juiced.
Some would rather hoard cash or buy back their own shares than spend it on more efficient machinery or information technology.
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Specifically, the bill would offer a 10% tax credit for any new hiring or raises this year as well as allow the complete write-off of new capital investments like machinery or equipment consistent with expansion.
These low rates have not inspired the Japanese to put capital into either machinery or houses.
Removing small trees and brushwood from a forest requires heavy machinery or large teams of workers with chainsaws and axes.
But that does not mean they would want the same bank to finance new machinery or to insure their employees' lives.
People drive cars, operate heavy machinery or work in factories with inadequate ability to see, causing loss of life and lost educational opportunities.
That's easier said than done considering the constant offers from people to sell or give him an old barn or piece of machinery they hope he'll save.
Moreover, since it is intrinsically difficult to assess costs and benefits that are not denominated in dollars' worth of machinery or tonnes' worth of toxic emissions, how do you decide which regulations to cut?
People travel from across the country to visit the five hundred stallholders and other traders: experiencing, seeing, touching and buying agricultural machinery or animals, and witnessing transactions that still retain old negotiating techniques such as handclapping.
And some of the supposed "costs", such as new bank software or renewal of cash machinery, would probably have to be incurred anyway as part of routine maintenance or upgrading.
Businesses and private non-profit organizations of any size may borrow funds to repair or replace disaster damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory, and other business assets, or to make improvements that lessen the risk of property damage by future disasters of the same kind.
His backup plan, if he can't split his firm, is to keep his head count low or to invest in machinery that would replace workers.
Sometimes it is a normal gene that directs the production of a hormone, such as insulin, or of the cell machinery which that hormone stimulates, such as the insulin receptor.
And they peeked in places that maybe the ADM lobbyists overlooked, such as the energy used to manufacture farm machinery, or the energy burned up indirectly in the form of farm labor.
Also, some cargo just isn't nice to have in your passenger compartment. (Bags of fertilizer or pieces of greasy machinery come to mind.) The Avalanche's bed is covered in a tough plastic lining, easily hosed out or just left harmlessly filthy.
Devon and Cornwall Police advises locking or immobilising vehicles and equipment when it is not in use, and avoiding leaving machinery in isolated locations or fields where it could be removed without attracting attention.
It's important that people know what they are doing when new machinery is installed or new computer systems are introduced.
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"One of the most likely explanations of the so-called 'productivity puzzle' is that companies are either reluctant or unable to make big investments in new plant, machinery and equipment, perhaps due to the uncertain economic outlook or a lack of available finance, or a combination of both, " he said.
Packages speed about on conveyor belts, and any tracking device with a dangling cable could get fouled up in the machinery, causing delays or even injury to employees.
By releasing a swarm of trained moths over a minefield, and observing where they stuck their tongues out, it should be possible to locate mines without risk either to people or to expensive mine-detecting machinery.
Workers operate machinery from inside pressurized cabins or inhale from oxygen canisters to stave off the worst effects of altitude sickness.
To deal with that cost, he says, the chain may cut back on labor or hold off purchasing a new piece of machinery.
And execs see opportunity in making machinery that's fuel efficient or helps increase fuel efficiency: turbo chargers for cars, engines for construction equipment and liquid chilling equipment.
Virtually every morning, it seems, image-makers in the gainful employ of opposition leader Tony Abbott and Prime Minister Julia Gillard conjure up some kind of unimaginative photo-opportunity, where their leaders appear brandishing a blow-torch, a spade, a butcher's knife, an on-button or some kind of piece of light industrial machinery.
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Savings would be lost, the government would be unable to pay wages or salaries, and imports of fuel, medicine and machinery would be disrupted, he added.
What you'll often see is a group of undocumented immigrants doing scut work - doing sweeping up, carrying heavy stuff, setting up the machinery, working alongside either native-born or documented immigrants who are doing the higher-paid skilled work - carpenters, electricians, plumbers, that sort of thing.
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