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  • It _is_ a problem in defense acquisition to work the lead-times necessary for threat evaluation, technology responses, personnel readiness, funding ... and keep it all on track.

    Senate rejects additional F-22 funding 2009

  • Tim Moore said, adding that some of the increase in domestic demand "reflected stock building by clients in response to low inventories and the need to guard against lengthening supply chain lead-times."

    Euro-Zone Private Sector Expands 2010

  • As they produce one new record high revenue and earnings quarter after another, semiconductor companies cite strong orders and the longest component lead-times in decades, as well as confidence of further material gains ahead.

    The Industrial And Aviation Renaissance 2010

  • It also cites rising lead-times and supply constraints in an electronics complex, today's bedrock cycle driver in a multitude of industries that find Internet connectivity of primal essence.

    Chip Cycle Trumps The Confidence Gap 2010

  • HarperCollins Inc. have been terrific to work with because they give me long lead-times with each script, so I have a chance to do all the historical research necessary for each new story.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Erin Hunter 2006

  • HarperCollins Inc. have been terrific to work with because they give me long lead-times with each script, so I have a chance to do all the historical research necessary for each new story.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Erin Hunter 2006

  • And the small post on accessibility has kind of turned into a state of the genre thing, and is a thousand words long, with digressions and rambling, which I'm not at all certain is pointful because the state of the industry now is actually a year or two old (the consequence of lead-times, among other things).

    Is it just me? msagara 2006

  • In the absence of such signals, at short lead-times both the statistical models and the climate models are probably hitting the limits of predictability defined by the levels of interannual variability in the climate, that is unpredictable over the time-scales of interest.

    More Evidence That Hurricanes Are The Result Of A Poisson Process « Climate Audit 2007

  • Whether new nuclear capacity will be an option at that point, or beyond, will depend largely on the environmental and economic merits of other energy sources relative to nuclear and its political and public acceptability, construction lead-times and load characteristics.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • The UNHCR Specifications Catalogue, issued by SFAS, provides estimated lead-times for standard items, based on receipt of a request for reasonable quantities at Headquarters.

    1.1 The Supplies and Food Aid Function 1989

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