Moreover, said Mr. Shute, the "crisis of supply" extends to other areas, too — residential property, retail space, hospital beds, school spaces.
The new discovery, if confirmed, would indicate that the contamination of the food supply extends beyond the Taco Bell brand taco shells recently recalled from groceries by Kraft Foods, a subsidiary of Philip Morris, after they were found to contain genetically engineered StarLink corn.
These results suggest that, in the convertible bond market, the influence of capital supply extends beyond the issuance decision to the use of concurrent transactions and that these transactions offer important flexibility to issuers.
The potential for climate change to reduce future blood supply extends to a number of other vector-borne pathogens.
Much to the consternation of the European Union, which now numbers several former Soviet bloc nations among its members, Russia through its natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, has spun a web of control over energy supplies extending from Estonia on the Baltic Sea to Bulgaria on the Black Sea.
Public water supply systems are designed to maintain water supply through extended periods of dry weather without excessive cost or environmental damage.
And, on land, think Saddam's first disastrous invasion of Kuwait, supply lines extended across desert and scrub, and you can perhaps see how few real cards Colonel Gaddafi and his modest non-model army have to play.
The globalized nature of current business environments led to the emergence of new networked enterprise organizational paradigms (supply chains, extended enterprises, virtual enterprises, collaborative networks, etc).
Interoperable enterprise systems (be they supply chains, extended enterprises, or any forms of virtual organization) must be designed, controlled, and appraised from a holistic and systemic point of view.
