The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0 team is to improve upon the existing product and scale the tool across additional government agencies so that fewer taxpayer dollars are spent getting the technology that government needs to do its work for the American people.

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Weighing in as the 15th most important tool is the scale, a device that provides the base for commerce and coinage.

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The carbon markets will certainly not be the only policy mechanism required for us to achieve the environmental objective scientists warn us we need to meet but it can certainly be an effective tool to begin to scale up the finance and investments that will put us on a safer carbon emissions trajectory.

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The last disruption of financial service delivery on this scale took place in the 1990s, when the Internet became a tool for international business.

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The Institute for Fiscal Studies offers an online tool that allows people in Britain to estimate where they fit on the inequality scale.

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He also argued that the RAF offered a "flexible political and military tool", whose use was often less costly in every sense than the large-scale commitment of ground forces.

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The Flash-based tool in one example showed a map of London, and with the touch of a sliding scale you see areas of the city where housing is a certain price and commute times are a specific length.

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