The alliance, such as it has existed for decades between the state and Guzmán (and his ancestry in the old Guadalajara cartel), is logical: the old-fashioned corporate "pyramid" cartel is best equipped to keep order, the "pax mafiosa".
A few cars are assembled and equipped to customers' orders, but because of the logistical difficulties in ordering the correct combinations of parts from thousands of suppliers, these take a month or two to deliver, a lag that discourages most buyers.
Moonshine Drinks is just starting out, but its marketing director Roger Wilson says it hopes to sell its product through a high street retailer and is also looking for distributors equipped to handle its overseas orders.
BMW pays its Saxon employees, who turn out a car equipped to an individual customer's order every 80 seconds, according to the national contract.
Competitors like Hewlett-Packard and I.B.M. have also proved better equipped to deal with stagnant hardware orders because of vast services businesses, software sales and long-term contracts with customers.
Chris Cooke's forthright stroke play earned him a place in the championship team and with the admirable Jim Allenby and Mark Wallace in the middle order, Glamorgan appear well equipped to compile sizeable totals and exceed the 41 bonus points they gained last season.
He has just filed a suit arguing that the machines violate state law, and asking a judge to order that they be equipped with printers, so that voters can verify their decisions on paper.
Metastasis is a complex multistep cascade of events and cancer cells need to be highly equipped in order to fulfill the metastatic process.
The 9th Division, less its partly trained and equipped artillery, was ordered to move to the Tobruk-Derna area where it would relieve the 6th Division, so that formation could participate in the Battle of Greece.
Most disquieting is this week's news that the government of Georgia is intending to "rearm and re-equip" in order to fight the Russians all over again – hoping to benefit from the Nato arms bazaar, no doubt.
