It's turning the US from a hugely dependent energy importer to a potential net exporter.

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But Tim says bad debts are only 0.3% of sales, and with small business increasingly dependent on technology, the potential customer base has scarcely been tapped.

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We must not lose sight, however, of the larger problem: The Millennium Bug's potential for devastation of an advanced, computer-dependent society like that of the late 20th Century United States is not confined to its national security apparatuses.

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The potential crisis is for local counties and towns that are dependent on the 70% portion of the state budget that gets parceled out to them.

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"These findings define a new drug target with wide potential for therapeutic intervention in conditions such as hormonal-dependent cancer, abnormal puberty and control of fertility, " said Dr Samuel Aparicio of Paradigm Therapeutics.

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Dependent as they are on Arab oil, these potential allies cannot be expected to vote with Israel in the UN General Assembly.

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Though Israel has been long dependent on foreign energy sources, the discovery has the potential to redo the entire geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.

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While the nature of this threat landscape is uncertain, the potential damage a cyber-attack could pose to our internet-dependent telecommunications, power and even water infrastructure, has seen cyber security rise sharply up government agendas around the world in the last five years.

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This presents Iran with enormous wealth potential, which it could use to increase its leverage over Europe, India, Pakistan, and other countries dependent on natural gas imports.

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