The creaking electrical-supply system is starved of investment to carry out urgently needed repairs, as is the water-supply system.
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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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.
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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If you manufacture globally, it is simpler to be bound by the toughest regulatory system in your supply chain.
Oki will keep its memory-chip operation in business to supply system LSIs -- chips packing several functions on one silicon wafer.
If there was a failure in the air supply system then the pressure would decrease more slowly but still eventually match the outside air pressure.
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.
However, because of a different system of electricity supply in the UK, electromagnetic fields are generally less intense, resulting in only a few children found to be exposed to levels greater than 0.2 micro-Tesla.
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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Dell plans to begin using BizTalk Server 2000 this week in live production for part of its supply chain system, Gates said.
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Maybe it would be better if we had a monetary system in which the supply of money was regulated in some other way.
Should investment be made in support of a new product direction, or in a digital inventory management system connected to the supply chain?
They are confident that the price system will allocate the supply of canned foods to the customers who will value them the most.
Freely determined market prices and a monetary system that allows the supply of money to meet demand through market processes and a convertible currency ensure long-run prosperity.
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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.
Carly Fiorina, HP's chief executive, blamed the unit's poor performance on the absence of a traditional uplift at the end of the quarter and disruption caused by a new supply chain system.
"As more and more people decide that they, too, want to burn a DVD of the kids to send to Grandma and Grandpa for the holidays, I think they will increasingly look to Apple to supply the system on which they create their masterpieces, " says Pile.
It is a full supply-chain system and all the logistics that can go into it.
Congress now caps visas for foreign workers, a clunky system that does not match supply too precisely with demand.
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.
And as basic economic theory tells us, in any given system, when you increase supply without boosting demand, the result is that prices fall.
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As U.S. citizens begin to opt out of the food system en masse, garden supply companies like Peaceful Valley are also in position to benefit.
Content marketing works through a supply and demand system.
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Put together an online mall and a credit system such as Zynga, and you could wind up with a retail powerhouse running its own payment system, leaving banks to supply the payment utility but not much else.
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Furthermore, Wilson, the only president with a doctorate, tried to use the newly created Federal Reserve system and an elastic money supply to keep inflation in check, but the U.S. still saw double-digit inflation from 1917 to 1920.
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What supply-side measures Mr. King had in mind he refused to say, although it is notable that the Treasury last year rejected his advice to underwrite a further recapitalization of the banking system to free up the supply of credit.
Still, what one could say about this system was that it took the global supply of money out of the hands of central bankers and politicians (as long as the system stayed in place).
Although the Federal Reserve dramatically increased liquidity, the money supply in the banking system barely budged.
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