They cannot actually set a reference price for globally traded crude oil, and what ability they once had to balance the market has declined as traders have become more skeptical that the Kingdom is ready and willing to ramp up its production as much as it says it can.
Already, thousands of pictures have been deposited in the Herschel archive, which is set to become a key reference source for decades into the future.
"This gives us a reference set of genes and microbes from healthy individuals, " said James Versalovic, director of the Texas Children's Microbiome Center at Baylor College of Medicine and one of the researchers on the project.
Now there is just one rate that trades within a narrow band with a reference rate set by the central bank daily in conjunction with local financial institutions.
An 18k white gold skeleton frame is designed as a complex set of gears, in reference to the 1936 film in which the Chaplin character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.
He also says that Apple (AAPL) has set the stage for mainstream adoption of Flash in SSD applications, a reference to the lack of a hard drive in both the iPad tablet and the new versions of the MacBook Air notebooks.
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Euribor was set up by the European Banking Federation in 1999 to establish a new interbank reference rate within what is now the 17-country currency union.
The hockey reference is actually something out of 9th grade debating, to set up a red herring as a distraction.
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If preferred, the owner also can take pictures of the surrounding area for reference, write a reminder note, email his or her location and set an alarm if the car is parked at a meter.
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And despite the occasional slip of a date reference from various executives, an official ship date still hasn't been set.
Comcast isn't opening up its set-top boxes (UI and all) in the way we'd like, but it has established a reference spec (RDK) for potential hardware partners to build their own versions of its next generation setup.
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