The All Blacks next play England, who saw off Argentina 16-9 at Twickenham in a poor quality match in difficult conditions.
This immunity from the slings-and-arrows of poor power quality in the residential sector is unlikely to last long.
Pollution from road traffic, particularly diesel fumes, is the most significant cause of poor air quality in most cities.
Maybe the public-sector premium arises from an incentive problem and hence higher public-sector pay can be used as an indicator of poor quality in this sector.
He recommends that exporters make sure that price differences in rich and poor markets reflect real differences in quality, or differences in the extra services attached.
"We have the worst male life expectancy in the country, the third worst female life expectancy in the country so we have a very poor quality of health in the surrounding community, " he said.
At the moment, digital video cameras take poor quality stills, and digital still cameras take poor quality video (largely because they have to compromise quality in order to perform all that interpolation on several frames per second).
In the face of this poor quality of service, the leading networks in Nigeria have not only diversified, but are also paying more attention to internet services.
After surveys of high litter levels and poor bathing water quality in the past, he set up special "beach summits" to try to tackle the problem.
The problem at present, he says, is that North Korean farmers plant too many poor-quality seeds in a desperate attempt to boost crops, and do so in soil that is becoming increasingly less fertile.
Peugeot, the last remaining French brand in the U.S. market, abruptly pulled the plug on its underperforming U.S. subsidiary in 1991, done in by high prices and poor quality, which made them unsuited for the market, especially in light of the new competition from Lexus and Infiniti from Japan.
And, as the World Bank itself acknowledged in its report on the quality of growth, poor people in developing countries need more than just money - to benefit from any growth that occurs, they need more access to jobs and education, and less discrimination and corruption.
Neglected Tropical Diseases is an umbrella term for a range of bacterial, parasitic and worm infections which flourish in areas with poor water quality and inadequate sanitation.
As a result, for years the U.S. lagged behind Europe in mobile phone usage, and even today our poor call quality and frequently dropped calls can be blamed in part on this regulatory hodge-podge.
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However, the issues for financials ETFs and mutual funds go beyond the relatively poor quality of the stocks in the sector.
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Noise, visual clutter and poor quality lighting are plentiful in U.S. hospitals.
While Apple is having to apologize for the poor quality of its maps in the West, it is clearly superior to Google Maps in China.
First Solar is antiquated and is seeing a huge drop in demand in lieu of the poor quality of the mfg. and the less impressive solar efficiency.
The wrong choice can result in considerable extra expense, or in users being dissatisfied with poor quality and lack-luster performance.
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Still, in this model, a poor-quality piece of content that comes out of one bit of the machine can damage other outlets.
The hazard here is that GM might be tempted to load up the bank with poor-quality loans to shaky dealers in an effort to pump up vehicles sales, says Sean Egan, managing director of Egan-Jones Ratings.
Observe that no one argues that since medications are critical to human life and no CEO could possibly keep track of all the activities done by all the operators, big pharma companies should be broken into smaller ones so that company leaders will be more likely to catch poor quality operations which could result in mass deaths.
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Put another way, a poor quality bank bond that no one wants because the bank is in trouble is suddenly high quality debt if the Fed is prepared to swap it for a Treasury bond.
While the potential market opportunity is large, there could limitations from poor broadband quality and low per capita income in the region that might could reduce the near-term adoption.
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The munis which need cash are not in a position to borrow because of poor credit quality.
The farm said it was having to buy in the extra feed because of the the poor quality of last year's home-grown silage crop.
For the last two years, I have been calling attention to the generally poor quality of the public policy debate about cybersecurity in the United States.
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Saddled with out-of-date factories, over-reliance on the North American market and unfashionable trucks, a poor reputation for quality, a dearth of new models in the pipeline and insufficient resources to fund future power-train development, Chrysler is too weak and too small to survive on its own.
BBH, for example, has nearly finished a new malting plant, the largest in Russia, freeing it from the choice between poor-quality Russian supplies or expensive imports.
Dorgan said the inspector general's report found KBR's work throughout Iraq was of poor quality, with more than 53, 000 sites in need of upgrades or repair as of March.
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