So thinking hard about understanding your supply base, and understanding the production of products in a deeper way is very important.
The most deadly attack on American forces in the Gulf war occurred when a Scud missile fell on a supply base in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
There are less than 10 percent of the companies who are in default of their covenants, so we think the supply base is also looking much more stable.
Mikhail Barclay de Tolly, his war minister, devised and implemented the strategy of drawing Napoleon deep inside Russia, away from his supply base, exhausting his army by defensive war and then attacking.
And this prevents them from having clear visibility into their supply base, which makes it difficult to understand whether suppliers have the goods they need and whether they can be shipped on time.
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When they have these levels of cash, we recommend to our large buyers that they deploy it into their supply base by giving their suppliers the opportunity to request early payment when they need it.
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Obviously, Ron talked about some of the assistance we did to keep the supply base in place, but also to help suppliers think about how to diversify, how to get into new lines of business away from automobiles.
Former Cold War facilities also will be transformed into a supply base for U.S. forces on the ground in Bosnia. kicked out To make room, hundreds of Hungarian soldiers -- including some who received little advance notice -- are being forced out of their barracks.
Our region offers a strong manufacturing and supply chain base, world-class research facilities, a highly-skilled workforce, and economic development organizations that foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
The nearly 200% increase in the supply of base money over the past 36 months would, in normal times, be expected to produce inflation, if not hyperinflation.
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After the credit crisis set in and the healing aspects of deflation began to take hold, central banks rapidly expanded the supply of base money in an effort to quickly erode the purchasing power of their currencies and bring real estate prices higher.
But in a country with an unreliable power supply and a base of almost no electric vehicles, that goal may be elusive.
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The Federal Reserve has the responsibility today of increasing or decreasing the base money supply.
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The Federal Reserve already increases and decreases the base money supply on a daily basis.
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To increase the base money supply, the Federal Reserve typically buys something, usually a bond of some sort.
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All this means is that the base money supply is adjusted at different times, and in different quantities.
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To decrease the base money supply, the Federal Reserve typically sells something.
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The money received in payment disappears, which shrinks the base money supply.
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These crises were not caused by money that was too stable in value, but rather a short-term inflexibility of the base money supply around the harvest season.
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Supply of things like base metals, oil and rubber is crimped after years of underinvestment in mines and oilfields and farms, he says, so prices are heading up.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad said the troops were returning to their base at Basra airport after carrying out a re-supply mission at their Basra Palace base.
So far, the Bank of Japan has pumped up the base money supply (along with expectations) and the yen has fallen 20 percent relative to the dollar since September.
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In response, the Ecuadorean foreign ministry said the helicopter had been on a supply mission to a base near the border and had strayed into Colombian airspace due to a "navigation error".
The team set sail from London in December and were building a base camp and supply depot inland from Crown Bay when Fiennes developed the case of frostbite.
Currently, however, the connection between the monetary base and the money supply is not as tight as it used to be.
By helping the base use existing juice supply more efficiently, the co-op can hold off on costly and more complicated investments in new high-voltage lines.
Babcock builds smaller nuclear units of 100 megawatts, which can also be aggregated together to supply as much power as a base-load nuclear generator, or 1, 000 megawatts.
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