Even in countries lucky enough to enjoy adequate and constant food supplies, the ability and motivation to eat healthily is compromised by a lack of agreement about what is and what is not good for us.

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Any actions that would restrict drilling would affect supplies, and the subsequent ability of the industry to fulfill demands.

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And not only do we need to look at the ability to stockpile humanitarian supplies to the Syrian people inside their country, but also to be able to assist those that have fled.

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Themost impressive feature of the massive system is its ability to install two power supplies, giving enthusiasts an unlimited level of power to handle the most intense hardware configurations.

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If supplies are disrupted or demand accelerates beyond Saudi Arabia's ability to increase supply, the price of oil could rise well beyond anything considered realistic today.

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Like China, the prodigious expansion of power production from renewable-energy resources like wind, solar energy and geothermal has outpaced the ability of the transmission systems to move these new power supplies to centers of demand.

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Her ability to create windows into other worlds can help bring in supplies or allies during battle as well.

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Matt Simmons, the energy analyst who spotted America's falling natural-gas supplies in the late 1990s, told Dow Jones this month that he fears for the Saudis' ability to act as OPEC's swing producer indefinitely.

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If all the proposed LNG projects get done it would give the U.S. the ability to export 20 billion cubic feet of gas per day, or about a third of current supplies.

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