U-verse system in around 40% of its service area.
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The high-definition Wii U system is available in two versions in the Americas, and each comes with a touch-screen Wii U GamePad controller.
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Defenders of the ICC say that it would have jurisdiction only when a given country's judicial process - the U.S. court system, for example - has failed.
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The U.S. said on Wednesday it would move an advanced missile-defense system to Guam to defend U.S. bases in the Pacific against medium-range missiles from North Korea.
Curtis Martin, who will also work in the office, said the U.S. foreign military-sales system was designed with strict accountability controls to prevent U.S. weaponry from falling in the wrong hands.
Nintendo has announced, alongside the many other games coming to its next-gen Wii U system, that it will be bringing Bayonetta 2 to the console as a Nintendo exclusive.
The SR-71 has proven its value as a complementary system to U.S. space-based reconnaissance assets during the prolonged period from 1985 to 1987 when the United States was unable to place new satellites in orbit.
Surely this is not the best way to go about reforming the U.S. health-care system.
But what ACOs most assuredly will not do is deliver the disruptive innovation that the U.S. health-care system urgently needs.
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Supporters of the U.S. private-pay system fear a shift in power to Washington will cut down on the innovation and choice that comes with the free market.
With the U.S.-dollar financing system out of bounds for Iranian companies, India and Iran have begun a barter system in which Tehran accepts Indian rupees in payment for crude oil.
China has also objected to a U.S. missile-defense system.
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Especially worrisome to supporters of missile defense is the prospect that such a review and negotiations may be conducted by people who have, heretofore at least, evinced little enthusiasm for actually deploying a U.S. anti-missile system.
In part to bring the United States into closer alignment with the rest of the world, the AIA eliminates the first-to-invent system for U.S. patent applications with an effective filing date of March 16, 2013 or later.
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The public demanded -- and had a right under our democratic system to expect -- from the U.S. government a vigorous and meaningful response.
Mr. Caswell's case, which was detailed in a page-one Wall Street Journal article in 2011, challenged the U.S. government's asset-forfeiture system, which collects billions of dollars each year of cash, real estate, cars and other assets.
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New Orleans, hit so hard by what so many (including President Obama in his Sunday interview with the local newspaper) still see fit to describe, mistakenly, as a natural disaster, is making remarkable progress, while the agency that so disastrously failed at building a protective system mandated by Congress -- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- may be making some of the same mistakes in rebuilding that system.
Whether the U.S. system of ground-based interceptors are the right response quickly became a matter of debate Friday.
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The shift in gaming preferences is evident in the Xbox 360 being the best-selling system in the U.S. for 11 out of the last 12 months, thanks primarily to the Kinect.
Last year , at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, computer scientist Andrei Costin discussed weaknesses he said he found in a new U.S. air-traffic security system set to roll out next year.
Many worry that partisanship in the U.S. leads to policy paralysis, but political disagreement here pales in comparison to the European Union, which has 27 member states whose political landscapes feature far more parties than the two-party system in the U.S. The U.S. also possesses a single jurisdictional political entity that allows it to enforce a common fiscal and monetary policy across all of its parts.
According to Reuters, the two-year U.S. interest rate swap spread--a gauge of financial system stress--was quoted at a record high 166.5 basis points in Asia, suggesting that concern about defaults among banking counterparties were worsening.
Although the U.S. Congress is likely to impose a cap-and-trade system after the presidential election later this year, proposed legislation by U.S. senators Joseph Lieberman and John Warner would limit the value of foreign credits by allowing U.S. companies to use them to cover only 15% of their emissions.
As elsewhere, it is important not to damage the U.S. system with overly far-reaching emergency measures.
Anyone who has flown in or out of those terminals knows that they are hardly models of efficiency, and one reason is the pre-modern U.S. traffic control system.
This point-based system may allow the U.S. to put legal immigrants on a path to citizenship by issuing green cards to legal immigrants based on criteria such as number of years present in the U.S., level of education, employment potential, etc.
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The Bush Administration has a sluggish, low-key missile defense effort under way: a limited ground-based system deployed in Alaska and California, which won't be much of a deterrent in today's world, and a still underdeveloped sea-based system modeled on the U.S. Navy's Aegis vertical launch system.
Westerners, especially Americans, often misunderstand Japan because they naively think that every nation wants to have a U.S.-style, consumer-oriented system.
After arriving in Tel Aviv, Mr. Obama viewed an Iron Dome battery, part of Israel's rocket-defense system that was developed with U.S. assistance.
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