But training with real equipment invites accidents and generally costs even more, so defence ministries are keen on simulators.
Enhanced expensing more fully reflects the real cost of equipment than depreciation, raising after-tax returns on investment.
His last win came at the Greg Norman Holden International in 1998 but in recent years, he has concentrated on his business empire, ranging from golf clothing and equipment to real estate, wine and grass specially suited for golf courses.
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"A few days later, it sort of hit me, " said Nordby, who has designed boxes for bike accessories, exercise equipment and other real products.
The GAARDIAN consortium, which completes its work this month, has developed equipment to provide real-time information about the reliability of GPS at airports or other sensitive locations using networks of probes.
The bill also includes a one-year extension of current "bonus" depreciation rules, which allow businesses to deduct up to 50% of the cost of a wide variety of property and equipment, excluding real estate.
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.
It is a greater challenge to measure real price changes in computers, software and telecoms equipment undergoing rapid innovation than in a standard commodity such as oil.
More recently, measures from the Chinese government to control rising real estate prices will further suppress sales of construction equipment and machinery in the country, and thereby impact Caterpillar.
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Total corporate capital spending on equipment has risen by around 11% in real terms in each of the past five years.
Not surprisingly, among the least profitable categories were two directly tied to the still-lagging real estate market: stores selling lawn and garden equipment and supplies, and building material and supplies dealers.
Was this fluctuation real, or was it merely a glitch in the equipment used to measure the decay, induced by the change of seasons, with the accompanying changes in temperature and humidity?
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It has a role in training and in harmonising equipment but when it comes to waging a real war in future, the argument runs, the Americans, as in Afghanistan (and as in the Gulf war 11 years ago), will make their own plans and pick their own allies.
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The real question is: what the heck are they using for equipment?
Now that CEO John Chambers has acknowledged that the networking equipment giant has problems that need fixing, the real question is what the company actually intends to do.
That is real money that you can use to hire new workers or buy new equipment.
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The carriers issue marketing claims that often don't pan out in real use, partly because of variations in location, network congestion and equipment.
The real promise, though, is that the expense of adding and running this equipment is more than offset, Jones says, by the chemicals it produces.
This new research, then, will serve multiple functions: Using specialized sensors, processors, and algorithms, the project team will measure noise in real time, tracking both the noise generated by various pieces of wave energy equipment and general background noise.
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Investment in information-technology equipment and software fell at an annual rate of 6.5% in real terms.
One improvement, suggests Mr Sokolski, would be to install more real-time remote-monitoring cameras, so inspectors can check more reliably that materials and equipment are not being diverted to covert use.
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Some describe it as "CSI Wakefield" but, unlike its fictional television counterpart, the white coats and impressive array of scientific equipment found around every corner at the Regional Police Forensic and Scientific Support Building are very real - and so are the criminals they are hoping to catch.
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But why can't Tony Blair come in to the real part of the hospital, which is crying out to be redeveloped, crying out to have new equipment?
But the company does have access to a large pool of real-world data, 28 exabytes of traffic from 1, 253 companies who have bought or tested its equipment.
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Soldier and Marine family members who knew about this program, and the very real challenges it faces in accomplishing change within the military, asked for a way to communicate better the gap in equipment our young Soldiers and Marines need on the ground in a new kind of war and peacekeeping.
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