Early operations used huge open-pit mines populated with similarly oversized excavators and dump trucks.
Early operations had limited success because the gold was dispersed in finer particles than was typical of deposits in the region.
Early operations were troubled by a series of accidents.
Early operations were problematic; in addition to supply problems, technical issues also struck.
Early operations were compromised partly because of mistaken beliefs that people would die if their duodenum was removed, and also, at first, if the flow of pancreatic juices stopped.
Mr. Lauder's company established TV Nova in 1995, and financed its early operations.
It is essentially a start-up within a start-up, and its responsibilities include sales, marketing, vendor relations and even the early operations of the business.
Paamco, according to the documents, went to great lengths to avoid disclosing that Mr. Sussman had bankrolled its early operations, helped select the name of the firm and had been "periodically" consulted.
It might make some useful Arab and Muslim countries less inclined to cooperate in the "war on terror".On the other hand, a swift and decisive campaign could undermine Mr bin Laden's belief, derived from America's abortive mission in Somalia in 1993 and its circumspect response to his own early operations, that America, like the Soviet Union, is a weak and flaccid adversary.
But how did Facebook support its early operations and pay for these wildly expensive servers?
To help fund its early operations, ThinkUp is seeking to secure some $1 million in a grant through the Knight Foundation's News Challenge (ThinkUp estimates it will need a total of $2.4 million in outside funding).
