Dairy Farm operates supermarkets under the banners of Wellcome, Jasons, Shop N Save, Cold Storage and Hero ; Giant hypermarkets ; health and beauty stores under Mannings and Guardian ; IKEA furniture stores in Hong Kong and Taiwan ; as well as 7-Eleven convenience stores.

By the end of December 2003, the Dairy Farm Group and its related associations ran 2, 570 outlets, Wellcome / Food World ( supermarkets ), 50 % share of Maxim's Catering ( restaurants ), Cold Storage ( supermarkets ), Jasons Market Place / Market Place by Jasons ( high end supermarkets ), Shop N Save ( discount supermarkets ), Giant ( hypermarkets ), Mannings / Guardian ( health and beauty ) stores ; it also operates 7-Eleven ( convenience stores ) throughout the region, and IKEA ( home furnishings ) stores in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

It was once one of the largest military stores in Europe but since the end of the Cold War it has declined in both importance and size.

The exclusive department stores Parkson and Cold Storage ( supermarket ) are situated in Subang Parade.

Major anchor tenants include Metro, Bengawan Solo, Cold Storage ( supermarket ), Esprit, OCBC, 7-11, Popular Bookstore, Timezone and many food stores including Delifrance, McDonalds, Freshness Burger, KFC and Food Republic.

Unlike some ice cream stores, such as Cold Stone Creamery or Marble Slab, Amy's does not use a cold stone for a mixing board.

The park offers of shoreline nooks and crannies that provide options for family picnics, including developed areas in Willow Bay and Cold Springs.

A Times review of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold strongly criticised John le Carré for failing to provide a happy ending, and gave unequivocal reasons why in the reviewer's opinion ( shared by many others ) such an ending is needed: " The hero must triumph over his enemies, as surely as Jack must kill the giant in the nursery tale.

It served first to provide barrage balloon protection during the Second World War and was involved in the rollout of Britain's coastal nuclear early warning system during the Cold War.

It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War, and provide early warning of a land based invasion.

For much of the Cold War, 21 SAS's role was to provide stay-behind parties in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion of western Europe ( as part of the Corps Patrol Unit alongside 23 SAS and the Honourable Artillery Company ).

In the ethnic conflicts that erupted after the end of the Cold War, this lack of outer controls is seen as the cause ; Since there was no longer a strong centralized power ( in the form of the USSR ) to control the various ethnic groups, they then had to provide defense for themselves.

In 1950 the Air Ministry offered to provide the wartime air base to NATO as part of the Cold War development of the alliance, and the need for additional air bases in the face of the Warsaw Pact threat to Western Europe.

* Cold cranking amperes ( CCA ) is the amount of current a battery can provide at 0 ° F (− 18 ° C ).

Cold facilitated the conservation of food, but the weather often did not provide low temperatures ideal for preservation, so it was necessary to apply other techniques, such as adobo.

It was designed to provide the tactical part of French nuclear deterrence during the Cold War.

Yi Seok as a young man was required to look after his family as best he could, along with his brothers, and took any jobs that he could to provide for his parents and siblings before and after university during the hard times of the Korean War and Cold War era as the Republic of Korea fought communism and internal subversion.

The founding of the school was prompted by the need to provide greater numbers of interpreters, intelligence and signals intelligence officers due to the Cold War, and the Korean War which had started the previous year.

Dick Ryal and Michael Bell provide the voice of Captain Cold in different episodes.

The brewing Cold War with the Soviet Union would provide the opportunity, and in October 1946 GE's Charles Wilson summarized the political program of big business when he declared that the problems of the United States could be summed up as " Russia abroad, labor at home.

The end of the Cold War did not provide the British Army with any respite, and the political vacuum left by the Soviet Union has seen a surge of instability in the world.

The group was reactivated following Secretary of State John Foster Dulles ' promise to provide NATO with four additional tactical fighter wings to increase it's defenses against the Soviet Union due to the outbreak of the Cold War.

During the Cold War, Vera Lynn's recording was included in the package of music and programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service ( WTBS ), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a nuclear attack.

The Center for Investigation and National Security ( CISEN ) was created 13 February 1989 in order to provide the Mexican state of civil intelligence agency more in line with the political and social transformations experienced by the country at that time and suitable for cope with the challenges posed by the end of the Cold War. At 23 years of its establishment, the CISEN has developed an intelligence system designed to alert civil risks and threats to national security and has trained a body of experienced intelligence professionals to serve the nation.

Due to Cold War pressures, the United States was also happy for Japan to provide part of its own defense, rather than have it fully rely on American forces.

The development of large strategic bombers stagnated in the later part of the Cold War because of spiraling costs and the development of the Intercontinental ballistic missile ( ICBM ) – which was felt to have equal deterrent value while being much more difficult to intercept.

With the construction of the large supercarriers of the Cold War era, the practice of operating each carrier in a single formation was revived.

Historians have liberally used emperor and, especially so, empire anachronistically and out of its Roman and European context to describe any large state and its ruler in the past and present ; sometimes even to refer to non-monarchically ruled states and their spheres of influence: such examples include the " Athenian Empire " of the late 5th century BC, the " Angevin Empire " of the Plantagenets, or the Soviet and American " empires " of the Cold War era.

This would allow bands such as AC / DC, Cold Chisel, INXS, Midnight Oil plus many others to take their well-honed live skills into large venues in the US and Europe with ease.

Following the free travel agreement and politic of the post – Cold War period, as well as hardship of the life in the post 1990s economic depression, Romania has an increasingly large diaspora.

In 1949, early in the Cold War, alleging Communist domination of the WFTU's central institutions, a large number of non-communist national trade union federations ( including the U. S. AFL-CIO, the British TUC, the French FO, the Italian CISL and the Spanish UGT ) seceded and created the rival ICFTU at a conference in London attended by representatives of nearly 48 million members in 53 countries.

During the Cold War, the project was expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the 60, 000 weapons in the U. S. nuclear arsenal.

During the Cold War period, both superpowers, NATO and the Soviet Bloc, built massive nuclear arsenals, aimed, to a large extent, at each other.

Both nations have begun to realize the core truth of the post – Cold War era that, if the strategic reality, as described by the words of Ronald Reagan, is that " Nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought ", then large nuclear weapons stockpiles have no positive use, are expensive, and can lead to dangerous destabilization.

The later prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise describes the warp engine technology as a ' Gravimetric Field Displacement Manifold ' ( Commander Tucker's tour, " Cold Front "), and describes the device as being powered by an anti-matter / matter reaction which powers the two separate nacelles ( one on each side of the ship ) to create a displacement field ( the aforementioned " bubble ") The episode also firmly establishes that many other civilizations had warp drive before humans ; First Contact co-writer Ronald D. Moore suggested that Cochrane's drive was in some way superior to forms that existed beforehand, and was gradually adopted by the galaxy at large.

With the Cold War coming to a close, a large portion of the defense-related industries in the area suffered severe cutbacks and closures, with several high-profile sales scavenging many local firms.

Cold waves generally are capable of occurring any geological location and are formed by large cool air masses that accumulate over certain regions, caused by movements of air streams.

One of the large financial institutions that he was able to use to launder money was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI ) which was shut down at the end of the Cold War by the FBI.

Since 2000, four companies have begun large operations in Lake City: Hunter Panels, New Millennium and United States Cold Storage.

The main runway was expanded in the Cold War era to become one of the longest in Europe, which enabled it to accept large American bombers such as the B52.

During the Cold War, Robots had a large following in the espionage business.

Propaganda played a large role in how the United States was viewed by the world during the Cold War.

The idea is a major justification cited for large militaries, and also served as the primary motivation behind the Cold War doctrine of mutually assured destruction.

American aid was received in large quantities following Thailand's entry into the Korean War as part of the United Nations ' multi-national allied force in the Cold War against the communists.

Cold clams and oysters ( bred on a large scale ), which were originally dessert dishes, later became starters.

During the Cold War, the peninsula served as the naval basing area for a large portion of the Soviet naval and air strategic forces, posing a threat to northern Norway.

Focused on perestroika, Gorbachev struggled to boost production of consumer goods, which would be impossible given the twin burdens of the Cold War arms race on one hand, and the provision of large sums of foreign and military aid, which the socialist allies had grown to expect, on the other.

Nuclear competition between the two superpowers played a large part in the development of the Cold War.

Their program of supporting all of the socialist states and calling for a united socialist bloc, rather than simply following the line of one of the large, ruling Communist parties ( e. g. Chinese or Soviet ), was part of what made the WWP unique during the Cold War era, and independence remains a defining trait of the Party.