The creaking electrical-supply system is starved of investment to carry out urgently needed repairs, as is the water-supply system.
Oki will keep its memory-chip operation in business to supply system LSIs -- chips packing several functions on one silicon wafer.
And a project is underway today to create a solar-powered water purification system to supply the needs of 750-1500 people per day.
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Most important, Wal-Mart is exporting a retailing and supply-chain system that trains and influences not only the "associates" but the public as well.
Its maker, a Dutch alchemist called Cornelius van Drebbel, is thought to have used a primitive oxygen-supply system, based on saltpetre, to prevent the crew from asphyxiating.
The equipment-supply system lends itself especially well to scam-artistry.
The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.
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It is a full supply-chain system and all the logistics that can go into it.
The cool-running, lower-power Barracuda Green hard drive delivers whisper-quiet acoustics and helps reduce system costs associated with the fans and power supply devices often required for power-hungry systems.
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The cooling system relied on an 8-hour battery supply, which are reportedly being supplemented by other similar batteries being airlifted by military aircraft if operators are unable to get the diesel generators or grid power back up in time.
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For example, military trucks -- now in large supply -- could provide the nucleus for an entrepreneurial distribution system.
Housekeeping uses a system made by South Carolina-based Harris Pillow Supply called the Pillow-Vac that refurbishes used pillows.
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"We are dealing with an unprecedented level of bursts not only on our system but also on the private supply side - on customers' own pipes, " he said.
Unless the recession time, the markets, now days, need longer term growth and development, thus the system of market balance of demand-to-supply should be maintained whereas market leaps should be taken.
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It is also the only major country that continues to maintain a health-care system with substantial elements of competitive supply, pricing freedom, patient choice, and diversity in approaching complex and uncertain medical problems.
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Giordano's management also took the opportunity to overhaul the company's inventory system, improving the operation's just-in-time supply chain.
Cepheid has a partnership with Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ) to supply the Biohazard Detection System to the U.S. Postal Service.
Just as the U.S. economy grew enormously in the 1775-1900 period, the gold standard system allowed the money supply to also grow enormously, as was appropriate at the time.
"Evidence that any system of 'automatic' donation increases the supply of organs - whether it's called 'presumed' consent, 'deemed' consent, or 'opt-out' - is still disputable, " added the bishops.
It also boasts the lowest birth and infant mortality rates, more hospital beds than any other state, plus the greatest per-capita supply of foodgrain through the state public distribution system.
If the project is successful, as a pilot has been, it will also establish the use of an internet-based management system, mitigate losses from flooding and increase the supply of water to industry.
This column's chief goal is to supply you with a worldview--a mental operating system--that will be as good 30 years from now as it is today.
As a benign example of how transatlantic teams can stimulate competition in high-tech weapons making, defence analysts cite the fierce competition to supply Britain with an air-to-ground surveillance system.
"First, we urge the government to implement supply-side reforms - particularly reform of the tax system, measures to encourage private sector investment in infrastructure and introducing more flexible employment laws to facilitate businesses' ability to react swiftly to volatile conditions, " he said.
If a retailer is big enough and powerful enough, it can often dictate that new technology be used along the supply chain to work seamlessly with its own cutting-edge POS system.
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But Mr Lee and his colleagues are already concentrating on the ultimate prize of supply-chain integration: ways of constantly monitoring and improving the whole system by using all the available data.
The PlayStation was technologically impressive, with its ability to splash over 300, 000 polygons on a television screen in a single second. (Nearly all videogame graphics are composed of polygons so "polygons per second" is a rough and ready measure of a machine's power.) Perhaps more important, Sony carefully forged and nurtured good relationships with third-party software developers, ensuring a steady supply of great games for its system.
Micro-grids are an important solution: a combination of a generator and hardened distribution system can supply reliable and larger quantities of electricity to a small circuit of users including emergency services, shelters, gas stations and grocery stores.
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But she has given her backing to the most notable pillar of Mr Menem's past economic success, Argentina's unusual monetary system which pegs the peso to the dollar, and money supply to the level of foreign-exchange reserves.
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