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Some computer users reserve alternative technologies for what they call "mission-critical" jobs, such as running mainframe systems from International Business Machines Corp. and servers that use chips developed by IBM and Sun Microsystems, now part of Oracle Corp. Intel also sells a separate chip family called Itanium with performance and reliability features for such high-end jobs, a technology whose biggest user is Hewlett-Packard Co.

Intel Boosts Key Chip Line Don Clark 2011

Here Latin provides English with the mission-critical Penthouse magazine word cunnilingus.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

Here Latin provides English with the mission-critical Penthouse magazine word cunnilingus.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

The software is developed by users for their own use, and this software is mission-critical for them.

steve | Serendipity 2010

Piecing together shards of information to gain a better understanding of our adversaries' capabilities and intentions is a mission-critical function of the intelligence community, and a core competency of intelligence professionals.

How 9/11 Transformed the Intelligence Community James R. Clapper 2011

Good companies continually weed out the bottom 10% or more and move countless others out of mission-critical roles to play supporting roles.

It's Sensible to Grade the Graders in Our Public Schools 2011

Faced with declining revenues, firms want big-name lawyers who perform mission-critical work and whose billing rates are more resistant to economic downturns.

Pay Gap Widens at Big Law Firms as Partners Chase Star Attorneys Nathan Koppel 2011

Hence, we described them as mission-critical, but only in a personal kind of way.

steve | Serendipity 2010

"After just a few months in office, the 'rare exemption' to the hiring freeze became not so rare as the president's new appointees discovered that many of the federal positions that were being vacated in their agencies were actually mission-critical and needed to be filled," said John Palguta, a vice president of the Partnership for Public Service.

Reagan's complicated legacy for federal workforce Joe Davidson 2011

"Without adequate funding the agency may not be able to realize the efficiencies, and because of the potential pull on management and staff time there is a potential risk for a detraction from core mission-critical activities," said the SEC in the report, which was completed by staff for Jeff Heslop , the agency's chief operating officer.

SEC: Efficiency Initiative Will Take More Time, Money Andrew Ackerman 2011