Until 2000 the precision of the GPS signal available to non-U. S .- military users was deliberately severely limited by a timing pulse distortion process known as selective availability.

Because of the low availability relative to demand, rhenium is among the most expensive of metals, with an average price of approximately US $ 4, 575 per kilogram ( US $ 142. 30 per troy ounce ) as of August 2011 ; it is also of critical strategic military importance, for its use in high performance military jet and rocket engines.

A 2004 estimate put military manpower availability ( males age 15-49 ) at 38, 347, with a " fit for military service " estimate of 20, 188.

Legislators rewrote all of the human rights laws in the state, restricting discrimination based on " race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, military status, sexual orientation, or unfavorable discharge from military service in connection with employment, real estate transactions, access to financial credit, and the availability of public accommodations.

Although 3G ALE is more reliable and has significantly enhanced channel-time efficiency, the existence of a large installed base of 2G ALE radio systems and the wide availability of moderately priced ( often military surplus ) equipment, has made 2G the baseline standard for global interoperability.

Mission San Buenaventura was planned to be founded in 1770, but the founding was delayed because of the low availability of the military escorts needed to establish the mission.

Hirst persuaded the British military to order 20, 000 of the cars, and by March 1946 the factory was producing 1, 000 cars a month, which Hirst said " was the limit set by the availability of materials ".

Integrated Logistics Support ( ILS ) is a discipline used in military industries to ensure an easily supportable system with a robust customer service ( logistic ) concept at the lowest cost and in line with ( often high ) reliability, availability, maintainability and other requirements as defined for the project.

These were important advantages for some applications like first generation industrial programmable controllers, military installations and vehicles like fighter aircraft, as well as spacecraft, and led to core being used for a number of years after availability of semiconductor MOS memory ( see also MOSFET ).

* 8 × 57mm IS: The standard German service rifle cartridge from 1888 to 1945, the 8 × 57mmIS ( aka 8 mm Mauser ) has seen wide distribution around the globe through commercial, surplus, and military sales, and is still a popular and commonly used hunting round in most of Europe, partly because of the abundance of affordable hunting rifles in this chambering as well as a broad availability of different hunting, target, and military surplus ammunition available.

Before the general availability of early military non-lethal weapons in the mid 1990s, war-fighters had few or no casualty-limiting options for the employment of scalable force and were continually at risk whenever lethal force was prohibited during sensitive missions.

Limited food availability was among the factors limiting military campaigns to the summer and autumn months.

The availability of a standing Army, and the President of the United States being authorized as " Commander in Chief ", implies his ability as a military commander to employ forces necessary to fulfill his oath to defend the constitution.

With Nancy back in Ligue 1, Platini's military service reduced his availability for matches, but he continued to make himself available to play when possible.

The availability of this mercenary force ( the Normans were famous for being militariter lucrum quaerens, " looking for their payback with the military service ") could not escape the Christian rulers of South Italy, who employed the Normans in their internal wars.

* Partially mission capable, a measure of system availability in the military

" National security is an appropriate and aggressive blend of political resilience and maturity, human resources, economic structure and capacity, technological competence, industrial base and availability of natural resources and finally the military might.

By this time resolution of the crisis was made easier by the fact that two of the hostage takers demands were met — the Shah was dead and " most " of his wealth had been " removed from American banks "— while the threat of war with Iraq made availability of American-made military spare parts for Iran's materiel important.

In the post war period the availability of large paved runways and the greatly expanded performance of land-based planes meant that both commercial and military use of seaplanes was much reduced.

Other requested information may include basic corporate information and history, financial information ( can the company deliver without risk of bankruptcy ), technical capability ( used on major procurements of services, where the item has not previously been made or where the requirement could be met by varying technical means ), product information such as stock availability and estimated completion period, and customer references that can be checked to determine a company's suitability ( including educational and military background of its employees on the project --- college graduates and those with advanced college degrees may add " value " from the bidder, as may an employee's military background in a similar area as the contract ).

The introduction of the R18 certificate for hardcore films is widely seen by observers as a reaction to more liberal attitudes in British society to pornography, the de facto legalisation of the import of hardcore pornography ( but not its sale ) across the EU because of customs law harmonisation, and the widespread availability of unregulated pornography over the Internet.

Limited availability of the books in bookstores that already sold science fiction, resistance among science-fiction readers to serialized monthly publication, the lower visibility of the line's deliberately muted cover color palette, and the lack of interest in genre SF among regular patrons of comic-book stores, were all cited by industry observers as factors in the imprint's demise.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

Indeed, the failure of home-building as a whole to respond this year to somewhat greater availability of mortgage financing, and the increasing reports of pockets of unsold homes and rising vacancy rates in apartment buildings, may also signal in part that the lush days of big backlog demand for housing are reaching an end.

The initial setting of the availability table indicated that the index word or electronic switch was not available for assignment.

When such a reference is found, an actual address is assigned and the availability table is changed so that the assigned index word or switch is no longer available for later assignment.

It called for opposition to laws and institutional practices restricting the information or availability of contraceptives.

By allowing a new kind of equality among citizens this opened the way to democracy, which in turn called for a new means, chattel slavery, to at least partially equalise the availability of leisure between rich and poor.

Many bacteria, however, possess mechanisms ( such as siderophores ) for scavenging iron within environmental niches in the human body, and experimental developments of iron chelators, therefore, aim to reduce iron availability specifically to bacterial pathogens.

The availability of genome sequences provides a new opportunity for scientists to learn more about the evolution and biochemical capacity of these parasite.

Some doubts have been raised about the long-term effectiveness of antipsychotics for schizophrenia, in part because two large international World Health Organization studies found individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia tend to have better long-term outcomes in developing countries ( where there is lower availability and use of antipsychotics and mental health problems are treated with more informal, community-led methods only ) than in developed countries.

Sparrow is now being phased out with the availability of the active-radar AIM-120 AMRAAM, but is likely to remain in service for several years.

Low interest rates guaranteed availability of funds for investment and consumption.

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

Category C agents are emerging pathogens that might be engineered for mass dissemination because of their availability, ease of production and dissemination, high mortality rate, or ability to cause a major health impact.

* The availability of adequate foreign exchange with which to pay for imports ; and

Stars such as Vivien Leigh, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Russell appeared in adverts for the pieces and the availability of the collections in shops such as Woolworth made it possible for ordinary women to own and wear such jewelry.

Moreover, it does not deal with the availability of spectrum for mobile phone service, which is part of the Industry Canada mandate, nor the maintenance of competition, which is largely the responsibility of The Competition Bureau.

* Fox News: Until 2004, the CRTC's apparent reluctance to grant a digital licence to Fox News under the same policy which made it difficult for RAI to enter the country-same-genre competition from foreign services-had angered many conservative Canadians, who believed the network was deliberately being kept out due to its perceived conservative bias, particularly given the long-standing availability of services such as CNN and BBC World in Canada.

The advent of online billing and the easy availability of credit card services has made it relatively easy for almost anyone to maintain an account in good standing, regardless of where they actually live.

The reason for this difference is due to availability of the ingredients.

PC style subdirectories were rejected as being too difficult to work with in terms of Block Allocation Maps, then still much in vogue, and which for some time had been the traditional way of inquiring into block availability.

Ready availability of computers and peripherals such as monitors, plotters, printers, scanners ( remote and document ) and analytic stereo plotters, along with computer programs for visualization, image processing, spatial analysis, and database management, have democratized and greatly expanded the making of maps.

A double-sided disk on the 1571 would have a capacity of 340 KB ( 70 tracks, 1, 360 disk blocks of 256 bytes each ); as 8 KB are reserved for system use ( directory and block availability information ) and, under CBM DOS, 2 bytes of each block serve as pointers to the next logical block, 254 x 1, 328 = 337, 312 B or about 329. 4 KB were available for user data.