But to achieve reasonable scale despite a relatively small national defence budget, and to compete with rivals many times its size, IAI has been obliged to chase foreign sales.

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He said nurses wanted "a sensible pay offer and a sensible commitment to see nurses pay on a level with their allied health professions within a reasonable time scale".

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But no one has been able yet to turn these breakthroughs into industrial processes that can produce something useful on a large scale at reasonable cost.

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Appearing before the assembly's public accounts committee on Tuesday, Mr Sissling agreed with the "realistic and reasonable assessment of the scale of pressure in the NHS".

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Like its counterparts nationwide, the city began building a vision deemed reasonable in the boom years, and had to scale back those dreams when the recession hit.

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Although the proposals did not have the imprimatur of the full commission, they provided a reasonable compendium of program cuts and revenue increases that highlighted the scale of changes required to return Washington to fiscal sanity.

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This allows the league its wage scale, which is huge for them, but provides some upsides for players at reasonable thresholds in return.

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After several years--the time needed to build up the assets to realize the economies of scale--workers would have the opportunity to allocate their funds among any qualified investment accounts that met reasonable and specific standards.

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