Printers congregated in urban centres where there were scholars, ecclesiastics, lawyers, nobles and professionals who formed their major customer base.

An automated online assistant providing customer service on a web page, an example of an application where natural language processing is a major component.

Iron ore is traded between customer and producer, though various benchmark prices are set quarterly between the major mining conglomerates and the major consumers, and this sets the stage for smaller participants.

The other major customer of early integrated circuits was the Apollo Guidance Computer, which had similar weight and ruggedness constraints.

" Another major concern was that Intel's existing customer base purchased their memory chips for use with their own processor designs ; if Intel introduced their own processor, they might be seen as a competitor, and their customers might look elsewhere for memory.

A major customer of the mill at this time was the Southern Pacific Railroad, which was building its line over Willamette Pass between Eugene and Klamath Falls in the 1920s and passing through Westfir.

Over time the mills specialised and in Ramnäs the key product became iron chains-in modern days for the off-shore industry-and in Surahammar wheel-sets for the rail road industry and electro steels, both with ASEA as a major customer.

The slate quarry was a major freight customer until 1971.

In the European towns where lace was once a major industry, especially in Belgium, England, Spain ( Camariñas ), northern Portugal and France, lacemakers still demonstrate the craft and sell their wares, though their customer base has shifted from the wealthy nobility to the curious tourist.

Nevertheless, during the 1980s Courtaulds continued to be a major supplier of carbon fiber for the sports-goods market, with Mitsubishi its main customer.

While the 6x86 quickly gained a following among computer enthusiasts and independent computer shops, unlike AMD, its chips had yet to be used by a major OEM customer.

The United States Marine Corps was a major Series / 1 customer in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s.

With no major engine suppliers available, Williams were forced to sign a contract to run customer engines for the 1998 and 1999 seasons.

Various customer requirements have led to several generations of CV90 where major differences are survivability and the electronic architecture.

Clarksons, Court Line's main customer and in-house tour operator since April 1973, was facing mounting financial pressure and Vladimir Raitz's Horizon Holidays, another of the airline's major customers, collapsed during that time.

Security breaches on these kinds of applications are a major concern because it can involve both enterprise information and private customer data.

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 outsourced credit function both extends the small firms effective addressable marketplace and insulates it from the survival-threatening destructive impact of a bankruptcy or financial difficulty of a major customer.

In 2002, Sobeys undertook major changes in its store design and customer service policies with the introduction of " Ready to serve ".

The major disadvantage is the cost of equipping each vehicle with a transponder, which can be a major start-up expense, if paid by the toll agency, or a strong customer deterrent, if paid by the customer.

Examples are in public utilities, making military aircraft and accessories, or where the investment and risk for a proprietorship would be too great for a much needed project impossible to achieve by any means other than the corporate form, e.g. constructing major airports or dams.

But the fact remains that even the unconscious acceptance of himself as a man of destiny divinely protected must be censored in any man who evades the responsibility for his major decisions, and thus for imposing his will on the people.

Drifting through a third illness, apparently without any provision for the handling of a major national emergency other than a talk with the vice-president, Eisenhower revealed the singularly static quality of his thinking.

The pamphlets are about law, the corporation, forms of government, the idea of freedom, the defense of liberty, the various lethargies which overtake our major institutions, the gap between traditional social ideals and the working mechanisms that have been set in motion for their realization.

Carl has been married to Paula for fifty-three years, and he has not made a single major decision without careful consideration and thorough discussion with his wife.

Relieved of the major part of his responsibility for the safety of the ship, the pilot's oaths became fewer.

At the same time, a major proportion of these young men and women see religion as a means of personal adjustment, an anchor for family life, a source of emotional security.

What is wrong with advertising is not only that it is an `` outrage, an assault on people's mental privacy '' or that it is a major cause for a wasteful economy of abundance or that it contains a coercive tendency ( which is closer to the point ).

Naturally, the statewide races will provide the major test for the expanding council.

A reporter restricted to the competing propaganda statements of both sides in a major labor dispute, for instance, is unable to tell his readers half of what he knows about the causes of the dispute.

In fact, one of the major reasons for the failure of the ill-starred expedition appears to have been a lack of full information on the extent to which Cuba has been getting this Russian military equipment.

The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.

Along with J. R. Brown's other major developments, the universal grinding machine was profoundly influential in setting the course of Brown & Sharpe for many years to come.

In addition to its major effort on fuel cells, Patterson Moos Research Division is continuing to carry on research in other fields, both under contract for the Defense Department, other government agencies and for our own account.

In addition to the three major original equipment segments of the electronics business, the steady growth in the market for replacement parts continues year by year.

For this first development the supplier signing the lease is a major oil company but in turn the deal is being transferred for operation to its local fueloil distributor.

The major gets the assured gallonage for the life of the lease and the distributor apparently can do well because delivery cost is low.

Currently, there are some 6000 companies in the field, ranging from small firms with a handful of employees to major concerns having complete facilities for production of metal, electrical, and plastic components.

According to one major producer, materials for a typical plastic sign are approximately 25% less costly than for a comparable neon unit.

A major portion of the credit should also go to flautist Haumd for his rendering of the almost impossible `` Indianapolis '' movement in the Baslot.

In addition, many of the hard-surface cleaners used for walls and woodwork had their genesis in trisodium orthophosphate, which is still the major ingredient of a number of such products.