To leverage its power, Walmart will ask its suppliers to quantify the amount of water, energy, fertilizer, and the pesticides they use, per unit of food produced.
Taken with the NYPD's use of plainclothes detectives assigned to the Demographics Unit to catalog Muslim business and eavesdrop on conversations, civil rights lawyers say that Rahman's tactics show the NYPD is violating court-imposed rules about what files it can keep on activities protected by the First Amendment.
Argentines use the dollar as their unit of account for all but the most immediate purposes.
Countries like Poland could use the euro as a unit of account without even joining the union.
The use of mixed sex beds in the acute medical unit was a particular concern for the inspectors, with them saying it was not appropriate for use by longer-staying patients.
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There is no need to use the push button on the side of the PTV3000 unit to switch between Widi and Miracast modes.
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It emerged that Keith Grimmett, of the LAS emergency planning unit, had urged a return to the use of pagers to alert senior staff in the event of a disaster because they were more reliable than mobile phones.
Dr Marcus Flather, consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and director of its clinical trials and evaluation unit said hospitals needed to boost the use of these effective treatments.
The bottom touch screen makes use of a telescoping stylus that is stored in the unit itself.
The system developed in Madrid makes use of a unit comprised of three accelerometers and three gyroscopes, which keep track of the speed and direction of a vehicle at all times.
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Mr Deats, deputy head of the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), said that greater use of online shopping and banking was making the net a tempting target for organised crime groups.
Astrium's plan to tackle defunct satellites is to use an unmanned chase spacecraft to get in range, fire a barbed harpoon into the body of the rogue hardware and then use a smaller propulsion unit attached to a tether to tow it back towards the atmosphere where it will burn up safely on re-entry.
Another new report, by officials at the Department of the Environment's Biotechnology Unit, also supports fears that genetically modified crops could lead to the use of more powerful herbicides which might damage the habitats of farmland birds and wildlife.
Believe it or not, the U.S. Army used to contain a special unit that was devoted exclusively to the use of psychic power as a tool of war.
In 10 hours of daylight charging the unit gathers up to 20 hours worth of battery power for use in the low-power 8 LED mode, or 10 hours of life if used in 16 LED mode.
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This feature is for all of us who have had to use the base unit beeper to locate the cordless phone or who routinely cannot remember where they kept their car keys.
Ten years ago about 90% of U.S. Trust's clients handed over all their money to it for management, but today 70% of its clients use multiple managers, says Loraine Tsavaris, managing director of the bank's wealth management unit.
He wants to see an immediate reduction in pesticide use until the effects are better understood, and is pressing for the formation of a European Union environment unit to study the problem.
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"The disparity in the photos distracts from the intended use of the photos, which is to portray a cohesive unit of individuals, " says Daniel Pries, co-founder of ProPoint.
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The 2100mAh battery powers the unit for about 16 hours of use (60 hours on standby) and can be charged to 70 percent capacity in about an hour.
Lacking any display (or any way of connecting one), the unit has you use the sluggish remote to prompt the device to read back which songs are available.
Ministers are not bound to take their advice on presentation of policy, but they are tripping over themselves to use the unit's services.
The gold standard, where a dollar is defined by a weight unit of gold, will enable people to use the same currency at a secured value.
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They were working in Reactor No. 3 which is of particular concern because it is the only unit to use MOX fuel, which is reprocessed spent fuel mixed with plutonium.
The group's base in the town centre houses an eight-unit telecentre which anyone can use free of charge.
Portfolio managers often use the eponymous Sharpe ratio to determine how much excess return they are producing per unit of risk.
Last year, Attorney General Harris also established an eCrime Unit to prosecute identity theft, data intrusions, and crimes involving the use of technology.
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"Recent Mexican army and police force conflicts with heavily armed narcotics cartels have escalated to levels equivalent to military small-unit combat and have included use of machine guns and fragmentation grenades, " said the warning issued last month.
The joint venture with Lockheed Martin and Telespazio, a unit of Telecom Italia, aims to use satellites to offer data at up to 110 megabits per second to the vast majority of offices not passed by fiber.
The report states that their levels of use vary, with the Folkestone walk-in centre seeing 1, 000 patients each month and the minor injuries unit in Faversham seeing just 100.
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