The British world-system then held together until the second world war.
If a benign geopolitical environment was the bedrock of the 19th-century empire, it was the catalogue of geopolitical disasters of 1940-42 that demolished the British world-system once and for all.
Titan will be 10 times more powerful than ORNL's last world-leading system, Jaguar, while overcoming power and space limitations inherent in the previous generation of high-performance computers.
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Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us a economic superpower.
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Building a world-class transportation system is part of what made us an economic superpower.
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It has an excellent central bank, run by the capable Tito Mboweni, decent transport and a first-world legal system.
And one example it used to point to as a source of pride was the world-beating high-speed train system.
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Building a world-class transportation system is one of the reasons that America became an economic superpower in the first place.
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This deal, struck by JP Morgan, allows a cash-strapped county to upgrade to a world-class sewage system it could otherwise never afford.
An economy built to last depends on a world-class infrastructure system that allows us to transport our people and goods as quickly and effectively as possible.
Nicola Dandridge, chief executive of Universities UK, said she was very encouraged that the government was using these visits to promote the UK's world-leading university system.
We cannot expect to train our children for the high-skilled jobs of today, or for the opportunities of the future, without investments in a world-class education system.
Whether or not Gordon Brown's Treasury had an excessively optimistic view of the budget deficit, he certainly severely underestimated the degree to which Her Majesty's Government would be on the hook if Britain's world-beating financial system got into trouble: The financial sector bailouts account for eight percentage points of the overshoot in our debt.
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Epic Systems, a data-backup specialist it bought in 1993, helped EMC add the world's fastest open- system backup technology to its arsenal.
Android has leapfrogged Apple's iOS mobile operating system to become the most widely used smartphone operating system world-wide.
The traditional dollar-based world currency system is now close to breaking point and the chances that it will come crashing down by 2016 are probably higher than fifty-fifty.
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Mr Hayes said the NTA was handing over a "world-class drug treatment system" to PHE but stressed that investment had to be maintained when management was transferred on 1 April.
" Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko explained that this alliance is only natural as "Moscow, New Delhi and Beijing have common positions on many issues and support a multi-polar world order system.
For instance, we assist Toyota's logistics department in managing their world-famous, just-in-time inventory system around snow and ice storms.
At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.
The U.S. will remain the strongest driver but will need to find markets for selling more as well as buying. (Investment flows, and the strength of the dollar, will figure in this.) Another key factor will be China--how fast it integrates into the world trading system as a nation, and as 30-odd provinces and zones.
Windows is the operating system--the brain and central nervous system--of 90% of the world's PCs.
That is the site in Moorestown, New Jersey where the Navy tests the radars for its Aegis combat system, the most capable air- and missile-defense system in the world.
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This is vital if England aspires to have a world-class education and skills system.
Today we have set objectives for new Labour Government - a world class education system.
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More than a few observers have dubbed this meeting Bretton Woods II, a reference to the 1944 international conference that established the post-World War II monetary system.
Despite the success of the euro, which has been worth more than the dollar ever since the U.S. economy busted in 2001, there's no real plan afoot to put the world on a one-currency system.
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ASiQ will initially show off its attractively-priced system at Miami's World Airlines Entertainment Association conference and exhibition in mid-September, and plans to begin rolling out the commercial service sometime next year.
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