Defense Secretary Panetta, who opposed apologizing, welcomed Pakistan's decision to reopen the supply routes.
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For a company like Apple (AAPL) that relies heavily on Japanese partners for critical components for its iPhone and iPad, the decision to keep its supply chain lean has painful implications when faced with the disruption caused the Japanese disaster.
He criticized the Federal Reserve's decision to tighten the money supply early in the cycle.
The only action roughly comparable was the October 1979 decision to target the money supply directly and end the practice of targeting money indirectly by focusing on interest rates.
This is a matter for government, however, historically, water has been a highly politicised issue in Wales, and we would imagine any decision over future water resource storage and supply to have the support of the Welsh Government and people of Wales.
As temperatures soared to the triple-digits for the 37th consecutive day Sunday, city officials made an emergency decision to shut off the town's water supply.
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These steps include the decision by the Japanese central bank to double the country's money supply and buy long-term government bonds to try to keep interest rates low.
If supply remains disrupted and markets remain tight in the future, the IEA does not exclude another decision to make additional supplies available to the market.
There is no hard-and-fast decision rule or trigger mechanism to which he or she must adhere in deciding whether supply conditions in the oil market justify an intervention.
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President Obama worked with the 28-member International Energy Agency to reach a decision to release oil from U.S. and other country reserves to increase supply during the month of July.
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In response, leaders in manufacturing must place greater importance on transparency in the demand and supply chain gaining a real-time view of global operations, and engaging their entire workforce in improved decision making.
Last year, Mr. Choudhury, the company's chairman, said fear of probes into alleged wrongdoing was slowing decision-making at NTPC over operational issues, including whether to buy overseas coal blocks to reduce supply deficits.
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