In many European countries, major facilities of communication telephone, radio, and television are owned and operated by the government.
The test facility (TF) is one of the three major facilities of the International Fusion Material Irradiation Facility IFMIFF).
Currently, major facilities of IS/MST radars are available at Resolute Bay (RISR), Poker Flat (PFISR), Sondrestrom, Milstone Hill, Arecibo, and Jicamarca in the American longitudinal sector; Irkutsk, Shigaraki (MU), Wuhan, Gadanki, and Kototabang (EAR) in the Asian sector; and Svalbard (ESR), Scandinavia (EISCAT), Andøya (MAARSY), Kharkov, and Syowa (PANSY) in the European sector.
Clearwater also is home to a major facility of the Church of Scientology, and that has exposed Zwan, himself a Scientologist, to criticism that church members have been too involved with his firm.
Despite major public investment, however, drug discovery remains a costly and specialized pursuit limited to a few major facilities, reminiscent of early DNA sequencing platforms that lead to the completion of the Human Genome Project, rather than the highly distributed and economical genome sequencing technology of today.
The agency, long a target of critics who view it as unnecessary or wasteful, seeks to increase American exports and investment overseas by providing loans and insuring companies against the risk that foreign nations will fail to pay them for building power plants or other major facilities outside of American territory.
The term "national institutions" is a reference to the oil industry, which has major facilities in some of the holdout areas.
Isis also appeared to have taken control of major facilities in and around the city, including the legendary military prison of Tadmur, the modern name for Palmyra, a symbol of state repression for decades.
In the R&D sector, spending measures have refurbished university labs, bought supercomputers, and sped up the completion of major facilities such as the Super Photon Ring 8-giga-electron-volt synchrotron, which came on line a year early last fall.
Although there is no equivalent legislation pending in that body, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation is putting the finishing touches on a new version of the America COMPETES Act, a broader bill to reauthorize programs at NSF and research at the departments of energy and commerce that could include language on NSF's oversight of major facilities.
Massport also operates several major facilities within the Port of Boston, including a cruise ship terminal and facilities to handle bulk and container cargo in South Boston, and other facilities in Charlestown and East Boston.
