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  • Many, like Boeing itself and Italian supplier Alenia Aeronautica SpA, which is a unit of Finmeccanica SpA, have abandoned lean single-source parts contracts.

    For Boeing, It's Been a Long, Strange Trip David Kesmodel 2011

  • It will enable the planning, buying and selling communities to access a continuous single-source trading and planning currency.

    NRS breakthrough as it fuses online and offline readership figures 2011

  • Just this year, Boeing received a single-source contract totaling $11.9 billion -- more than twice what ANCs earned last year on a collective basis.

    David Kimelberg: Appropriating Native Economies: When Is Enough, Enough? David Kimelberg 2010

  • Executive Vice President Shinichi Sasaki said Toyota will conduct a review of its system of centralized parts sourcing, including a look into whether it can use more commonly available parts and materials in the future, and a reassessment of its dependence on single-source suppliers in Japan.

    Toyota Signals a Bleak Year Chester Dawson 2011

  • Further, although large quantities of mercury are clearly toxic to the brain, autism isn't a consequence of mercury poisoning; large, single-source mercury exposures in Minamata Bay and Iraq caused seizures, mental retardation, and speech delay, but not autism.

    Op-eds on vaccines by Paul Offit, MD 2010

  • Congressional investigators have spent six months digging into single-source Pentagon contracts, the possibly illegal diversion of Russian fuel and Kyrgyz claims of backroom deals, which have soured ties with a crucial U.S. ally.

    Kyrgyzstan deals cloaked in mystery Andrew Higgins 2010

  • Congressional investigators have spent six months digging into single-source Pentagon contracts, the possibly illegal diversion of Russian fuel and Kyrgyz claims of backroom deals, which have soured ties with a crucial U.S. ally.

    Kyrgyz contracts fly under the radar Andrew Higgins 2010

  • Congressional investigators have spent six months digging into single-source Pentagon contracts, the possibly illegal diversion of Russian fuel and Kyrgyz claims of backroom deals, which have soured ties with a crucial U.S. ally.

    Kyrgyz contracts fly under the radar Andrew Higgins 2010

  • Congressional investigators have spent six months digging into single-source Pentagon contracts, the possibly illegal diversion of Russian fuel and Kyrgyz claims of backroom deals, which have soured ties with a crucial U.S. ally.

    Kyrgyz contracts fly under the radar Andrew Higgins 2010

  • It was one of the largest single-source outbreaks of an infectious disease in United States history.

    Hepatitis A 2010

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