And some might suggest that having more demand than the ability to supply it is a sign that Apple has not lost its ability to innovate.
What is in much shorter supply is the ability to get people to act on knowledge.
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That's manifested in our ability to supply our troops in Afghanistan through the Northern Distribution Network.
McCain says Washington has to reconsider every option and increase America's ability to supply itself with energy.
For example, the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has the ability to supply total U.S. oil import needs for approximately 80 days.
The ability of the candlestick maker to demand cake from the baker is a function of his ability to supply candles to trade.
While processor speed often grabs the headlines, more important to the business success of chip manufacturers is the pricing of the chips and the ability to supply them.
Venture officials defend the decision, claiming it was important for the company to keep Shelby going so it could demonstrate to other carmakers its ability to supply parts for specialty vehicles.
And when banks find their access to funding becomes harder and more expensive, that has a negative impact on their ability to supply credit to their personal and business customers, and to other banks.
Francis Ratnieks, a professor of apiculture at Sussex University who has worked on the state's almond farms, says the crop is so large and intensively grown these days that it has greatly surpassed the region's inherent ability to supply pollinators.
In another note, Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes points out that Qualcomm (QCOM) yesterday issued a statement saying that it does not see any significant impact on its ability to supply product to customers due to the events in Japan.
"The New Start treaty is a fundamental part of our relationship with Russia, which has been critical to our ability to supply our troops in Afghanistan and to impose and enforce strong sanctions on the Iranian government, " Mr Biden said in a statement released by the White House.
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The spread of radioactivity from Japan to China, and across the Pacific to the US is most unsettling as it may impact food prices, the ability to supply cheap energy through nuclear power and the supply chain of automotive and electronic goods to the US and other developed economies.
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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.
Pre-tailing owes its velocity to an ability to dovetail with supply and demand trends.
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They have confidence in their ability to work the supply chain and work down cost curves.
The chief one: that U.S. demand for natural gas was fast eclipsing the ability of producers to supply it.
Largely because of the national energy supply, and Putin's ability to exploit it, per capita personal income has increased 29% annually since 2001.
This obstruction has severely hampered our ability to contribute to the supply of news in our city.
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And this raises questions about whether Apple, under its former supply chain guru, has lost its ability to innovate.
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Private-payments companies threaten to take away the government's ability to control the money supply and benefit from seigniorage, the difference between the cost to produce the money and its face value.
With feed costs going up, Mr Downes said he would also be forced to increase the volume of feed bought in over the winter, with the farm's ability to sustain its own supply badly hit.
Since then, speculation regarding the nature of those measures has run rampant, but with the ability to print an unlimited supply of dollars, even the most skeptical observers have to admit that the Fed has an ordnance factory capable of producing whatever caliber is needed for the task at hand.
What beggars belief is that just as the single currency has ripped away any Euro Zone (EZ), nations ability to control its money supply, set an appropriate interest rate and to float its currency, i.e. monetary policy, the best the Europeans seem to have to suggest is that taxation has to be harmonized as well.
We have reduced his ability to move, sustain and supply the war machine in Kosovo.
This is not surprising considering the nature of industrial real estate and its ability to quickly shut off new supply.
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Many interesting observations follow on from this central thesis, notably that the ability of the educational system to supply workers educated to meet the needs of the economy, and yet keep pushing it forward, increased economic equality.
But Le Meur points to the ability of hardware creations to entirely disrupt supply chains.
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