And reports of lower-than-expected production from non-OPEC countries are only further exacerbating the market's distress.
The A380 has been plagued by delays and problems in production--another thing these monsters have in common.
Thailand's machinery of production -- labor, land, infrastructure -- has also become more inexpensive in dollar terms.
Autocar says it sits 45.5 inches longer, 8.9 inches wider and 10.7 inches taller than a regular-production G-Class.
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Otherwise, margin increase would come from offering an equivalent level of service at a better production-to-retail cost differential.
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But many health systems, for-profit and not-for-profit, share its goal: large-scale, production-line medicine.
It was a 1947 production -- a Truman-era version of an infomercial.
Evidence to bolster this theory comes from research showing that existing depression treatments all seem to spur brain cell production--just not as efficiently as we'd like.
Boyle and writer Simon Beaufoy get an adapted screenplay nod for 127 Hours, while The Illusionist - a UK-French co-production - is up for best animated feature.
More than 90% of Angola's revenue comes from oil production -- reaching around 1.9 million barrels a day -- and it is second only to Nigeria in its exports.
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Pixar has a five-picture deal with Walt Disney (nyse: DIS - news - people ) where the companies split the production costs--and profits--on Pixar's movies, which Disney distributes.
Additionally, Thailand, at the basic end of production--it is the world's largest rice exporter, for example--has to watch the emergence of low-wage Vietnam as a "China plus one" world supply source.
Mr. Chairman, Members of the Committee, I appreciate very much the opportunity to participate in your deliberations on the revised U.S.-Japanese agreement governing co-development and co-production of the FS-X fighter aircraft.
It must change from production-based marketing to market-based production.
Only new production--the work of entrepreneurs--will do that.
OPEC's high reserves, low production-to-reserves ratios and a propensity not to adhere to volume quotas, make a drive for higher market share through higher output and lower prices a logical outcome to their current dilemma.
Although the unit we saw today has functional guts, we're told that the casing is pre-production -- not to say that "production" BUGbases need to look amazing, anyway, considering that they're frequently used for prototyping themselves.
Morgan, is that the companies are distracted by the difficulties in finding a good fit between existing production facilities, rather than focusing on non-production-related expenses, which eat up most of their margin, even in good years.
The Zii EGG is a developer platform, after all, but Creative says the platform is "market-ready" for picking up by OEMs for production -- hopefully they aren't far removed from shoehorning a 3G chipset in there somewhere as well.
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This study, published in Personnel Psychology, compares two groups of activities that aim to increase company productivity: those related to human resources, such as training and teamwork, and those related to operational management, such as just-in-time production and total-quality management.
It helps that Washington has such a diverse range of stage lovers: educated types who patronise the likes of the Shakespeare Theatre and the Folger, high-end production-philes at the National Theatre and niche performance-goers at the Pulitzer Prize-winning Studio.
Much like the run-up to the previous flagship product launch, Qualcomm-backed Xiaomi has just announced that it'll be selling a small batch of pre-production second-gen Xiaomi Phones, in the hopes to get some keen users to perform last-minute checks before mass production.
And thereby, when you have problems in a region of the world that produces oil, you are -- the effect on your own production -- your own dependence on that -- the reduction in your dependence on that insulates you from some of that shock.
If successful, the firm believes this type of system could form part of a new approach to sustainable farming, making use of urban greenbelts while helping to reduce the carbon footprint associated with food production -- which accounts for up to 30% of total emissions worldwide, according to a 2008 Greenpeace report.
The grounding of the 787 fleet illustrates not the flaws in Boeing's industrial culture -- a rush to bring the airliner to market, a degree of over-innovation or a desire to please shareholders by outsourcing too much design and production -- but the rigor of a regulatory regime with a zero tolerance of any mote of imperfection.
It is statistics such as these that are leading to louder and louder calls for a radical rethink of the underlying philosophy of biofuel use, and for a slowing or outright moratorium on biofuel production -- at least until ways can be found of ensuring that that production does not end up increasing the environmental damage it is seeking to obviate.
Their specialized techniques, production leases, and lower steam-to-oil production ratio, make CVE well-suited to harvesting the northeast Athabasca oil sands deposit.
They're hoping to make the next "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, " a 2000 U.S.-China-Hong Kong-Taiwan co-production that became a global blockbuster.
French oil officials say Iraq could double its 4-million-barrels-a-day production capacity by 1990.
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