Of course Spain has done well to fund itself, but the raw fact is that the economy is still exigent.

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Commenting on the fact that Raw Iron servers would eliminate the need for a full-blown operating system, Pilla said that the offering was simply another option for users.

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They were crippled in their battle against the Scots by the simple fact that wine, their raw material, cost up to 20 times the price of barley.

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In the case quoted above, the CIO believed that his IT department had been on a storage buying binge and it was high time to in fact use more of the raw disk capacity on the machine room floor that was already powered-up and spinning.

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But start with this underlying fact: the cost of the raw materials alone necessary to make the battery is higher than the cost of gasoline.

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He also thinks the company and its rivals should benefit significantly from being able to pass on the increasing cost of rubber and other raw materials because their prices were, in fact, stabilizing.

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The easy answer is that, after years of under-investment by producers, particularly during the technology boom of the 1990s when most investors considered base metals dirt, the world has finally woken up to the fact that there are not enough raw materials to go round.

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His passion and raw emotions are always welcomed, but he also supports his feelings with fact and logic.

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In fact, it is hardly a lone instance of government cracking down on the sale of raw milk.

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