• It would be a bit like instructing all FTSE 100 companies to build new factories in Britain - not an instruction that would carry much force with private companies.

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  • The result of the SDSR is likely to be a much smaller force, with the RAF expected to bear the brunt of cuts - perhaps retiring its Tornado fast jets earlier than planned, scrapping the Nimrod MRA4 and losing up to 7, 000 personnel.

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  • The problem with an all volunteer force is too much of the citizenry shirks that responsibility, loses any sense of ownership in this country, and fails to learn the true meaning of loyalty and sacrifice.

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  • One noteworthy omission is a discussion of the microchip, a profoundly liberating and creative force very much in character with the American spirit.

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  • Despite its loss of momentum, it remains the biggest force in the business, with a much-respected management team, which is unlikely to make the same mistake twice.

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  • Additionally , unlike native low-skilled workers, low-skilled immigrants are likely to arrive with skills and abilities that are complimentary rather than competitive with the existing labor force, and they are much more mobile too.

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  • To design them, bioengineers had to start with cadavers, which furnish the data on precisely how much force a human chest can withstand, say, before the ribs start to break.

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  • "I think the pressure had become so tight on him, (Saddam) knew he couldn't travel in large entourages so he didn't have any men with him, didn't have much of a security force, " Odierno said.

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  • And as the US left the protocol years ago, nations still signed on account only for about 15% of global emissions - which is why there is so much emphasis on a new instrument, with some legal force, covering all countries.

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  • The British bomb in Koblenz, now covered by just 16 inches of water, is thought to have been dropped in the night of Nov. 6, 1944, when Royal Air Force planes blanketed Koblenz with bombs and destroyed much of the inner city.

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  • High reserve requirements, which force banks to park much of their capital with the Central Bank, helped too.

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  • Take, for example, UM 006, the corpse she observes working with researchers at Wayne State University in Detroit to determine how much force a human shoulder can withstand in a side-impact car crash before it sustains serious injury.

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  • The biotech industry is also vulnerable to the charge that it tried to force-feed the market by flooding Europe with so much modified soya as to make regulating it impossible.

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  • But without direct control of the sales force and with employees in revolt, there was only so much she could do.

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  • Correspondents say that Jonglei has been hit by widespread ethnic violence since South Sudan became independent from Sudan in July 2011 - with much of it taking place in Pibor county, where the UN peacekeeping force is based.

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  • But the thousands of workers in his district with ties to Shaw Air Force Base and nearby Fort Jackson might not see sequestration as much of a victory when they get furloughed or fired.

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  • Military pay and benefits were allowed to drift far out of alignment with civilian compensation rates, so much so that their skyrocketing costs endangered the viability of the All Volunteer Force.

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  • Now, with Stratos successfully complete, future space programs from NASA, the Air Force or any other agency has much fresher technology and a more recent collection of data to rely on.

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  • The centrifugal force required to compress the air is too great for small wind turbines to cope with, so much larger turbines will have to be installed for the project to realize its goals.

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  • Mobile commerce will transform retail, both because the transparency of pricing will force big box stores to be much better merchants or die, and because store associates armed with mobile devices can now do everything from save lost sales, to carry a POS device in their hand.

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