In developed markets, one path to better engagement with users could be through new features that make use of Facebook's vast quantities of personal data about each of its members.
The European Central Bank's offer to buy unlimited quantities of the bonds of governments that have requested support from the euro zone's bailout funds has already eased fears of a euro break-up, serving as a reminder that it is always a mistake to underestimate the power of a central bank.
Destruction of the world's forests releases large quantities of CO2, which form part of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
While the big deepwater ships that carry huge quantities of the nation's iron ore, coal and other goods are able to steam the deep waters of the Great Lakes as they always have, they must carry ever lighter loads to avoid grounding on the increasingly shallow harbors where they unload.
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Particularly noteworthy is the fact that Moscow's inability to deliver large quantities of high-grade chips to the defense sector has made the USSR's ambitious military buildup more technically problematic and costly.
Parliament's approval for the bill would permit the release of huge quantities of grain from the government's overflowing storage sites at near giveaway prices and is expected to become a big vote-winner for the Congress party-led coalition government, which faces a general election in early 2014.
Blood has, however, been spilt as result of communism's collapse in former Yugoslavia, quantities of it.
And the pettier forms of corruption are anyway much harder to control when office juniors see their masters filching vast quantities of other people's money.
It would encourage important steps towards reducing what Mr. Bush has rightly described as the country's "addiction to oil" by decreasing the U.S. transportation sector's reliance on immense quantities of gas and diesel fuels much of which are imported from countries that are unstable at best, and dangerous at worst.
It will once again take years, and immense quantities of tax dollars, to restore U.S. power projection capabilities to the level of readiness and effectiveness demonstrated so impressively in their first post-Cold War conflict Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
Without the contribution made by shale gas, the production of natural gas would have declined and the U.S. would have had to import massive quantities of liquefied natural gas.
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Hussein's attempt to purchase vast quantities of atropine and colloidal silicon dioxide should sound an alarm for all of us.
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He had access to large quantities of key intelligence, and is suspected of using that information against U.S. and Iraqi forces as well as Sunni communities.
Although Iraq kept trying to hide what it had, the inspectors nonetheless managed before they were thrown out in December 1998 to dispose of large quantities of chemical weapons and many, though not quite all, of Iraq's known missiles.
This evidence is to be found in the enormous quantities of heretofore classified official U.S. documents that are beginning to come into the public domain.
Large capital inflows have forced China's central bank to buy massive quantities of dollar reserves, which have spilled over into excessive growth in the money supply and credit.
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Although barges can transport significant quantities of ethanol, the U.S. waterway system is overcrowded and antiquated, often leading to long delays and disruptions that wreak havoc on supply chains.
Glaxo's Stephenne hopes to sell huge quantities of malaria vaccine for a modest profit, while using its adjuvant components for more lucrative vaccines, such as one to prevent lung cancer recurrence.
He is defraying the associated costs with the sale of vast quantities of advanced weaponry to Moscow's ominous new strategic partner, Communist China, in an alliance explicitly hostile to the United States.
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Nielsen BookScan's definition of bulk sales includes quantities bought by corporations or associations either for resale or free distribution, and quantities purchased by their authors, regardless of whether the writers intend to resell the books, give them away, or use them to fulfill a direct-marketing promotion.
The U.S. government has been selling unprecedented quantities of debt each and every week.
And those estimates are of what mining companies have concrete plans to get at numbers that are significantly lower than the colossal quantities of reserves buried throughout the Earth's crust.
The growing demands of the U.S. military for the bandwidth necessary to transfer in a secure fashion immense quantities of video and other data in real-time to commanders and forces all over the world transform this fiber optic infrastructure being sold by Tyco into something else altogether - a force-multiplier of immeasurable value.
Such efforts notwithstanding, Josef Schmidhuber, an agronomist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, argues that Brazil's competitive advantage lies in churning out huge quantities of low-cost bulk commodities.
The week before the vote, The New York Times ran a story, based on half-baked information leaked from the IAEA, alleging that U.S. authorities had failed to secure large quantities of high explosives that had apparently disappeared from an Iraqi weapons facility at Al Qaqaa, near Baghdad.
Private equity's biggest advantage today is its access to vast quantities of debt, on what old-time bankers might regard as recklessly generous terms.
The 12 Secret Service agents linked to the Cartagena scandal enjoyed a night out at a well-know strip bar in the city's port area, reported to have involved large quantities of vodka.
For these reasons, we should be especially wary of the purported silver-lining to the current Wall Street crisis: the infusion of vast quantities of petro-dollars, primarily from OPEC's Saudi Arabia and other Islamist nations in the Persian Gulf.
It turns out that in excess quantities, acetaminophen's breakdown products latch on to the FAS ligand of liver cells.
Without Kosan's technology it would be tough to affordably produce enough quantities of the drug to conduct human trials.
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