Long thought robust enough only for office networks, Ethernet this year has emerged as a way to provide high-speed data links outside of buildings at costs far below those of traditional communications systems and with little, if any, loss of reliability.
What we think is robust is the methodology we developed to add up supply, demand, and emissions.
A spokesman for the Deputy Prime Minister said later that Mr Clegg had been referring to the estimates around from groups such as Migration Watch "which he has seen but which he does not think are robust".
Incredibly, Eckert described the chaotic bidding process before the vote in December 2010 as "well thought out, robust and professional".
It was a safe starter, I thought: salty, robust, crisp and about as innocuous as chips and dip.
Incredibly, Eckert described the bidding process – which Blatter has acknowledged should not have decided two World Cups at once – was "well thought out, robust and professional".
Hours after Eckert's summary was published, in which Blatter was praised and the bidding process bizarrely described as "well thought out, robust and professional", Garcia said he had misrepresented the facts and conclusions of his report.
Or, perhaps, in an era when so few voters are truly undecided, he thinks a robust turnout from the Republican base could be enough to get him the 270 electoral votes needed to win.
The line in Hans-Joachim Eckert's incomplete summary that is the most surprising is not the catalogue of ways in which the bids sought to curry favour among voters but the assertion that Fifa's cack-handed and shambolic handling of the process was "well thought out, robust and professional".
Conor Friedersdorf, the Atlantic writer and supporter of gay rights, thinks not: "Robust, open public discourse about homosexuality has brought about steady gains for proponents of gay equality, but a campaign by the victors to stigmatise the defeated could bring about a backlash... I'm a bit perplexed by the people who are celebrating his firing under the present circumstances.
