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infrastructure

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the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area

the basic structure or features of a system or organization

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Our new economic approach is rooted in ideas which stress the importance of macro-economics, post neo-classical endogenous growth theory and the symbiotic relationships between growth and investment, and people and infrastructure. Gordon Brown

The real bug here is that the design of the system even permits this class of bug. It is unconscionable that someone designing a critical piece of security infrastructure would design the system in such a way that it does not fail safe. Jamie Zawinski

Innovation must lead infrastructure for a simple but compelling reason: Innovation produces new types of products and markets, and it is virtually impossible to know how to run those markets efficiently before they are created. Myron Scholes

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture” quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter. Allan Bloom

Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now - while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist. Sarah Palin

A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all. Cornel West

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