But while it would be a huge mistake to linearly project continued demographic improvement for Russia, it would be just as big a mistake to linearly project future demographic decline.
But the concept of development of IP rights is going to be one to watch in this, as well as any, big public funding project.
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But that's not the only big news for Project Holodeck, as the team recently swapped Microsoft's Kinect motion tech for Sony's PlayStation Move motion tech.
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Besides, a really big project, involving several state governments as well as the federal and any number of local ones, is sure to be a regulatory nightmare.
New Labour, for example, has been rescued from the possible embarrassment of the collapse of the Millennium Dome project by generous sponsorship from big firms such as Tesco and British Telecom.
Despite his resignation as an adviser, the government has continued to promote the Big Society project - which was the centrepiece of the Conservative party manifesto at the 2010 general election.
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It stretches across 6.2 million square meters -- making it roughly twice as big as New York's Central Park -- and it represents a huge commercial project for investors.
As I have already stressed, it is a very big accelerator that will be needed if the project has any chance of success, so big in fact that there are none with sufficient power anywhere in the world.
Without rehashing every point, in one example, as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.
As a result, the project's motto is "any orbit, any time, " and a big selling point is that the carrier aircraft can relocate more than 1, 300 miles without refueling to search for a suitable launch location.
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The project known as Eliza will involve hundreds of scientists and several billion dollars--about 25% of Big Blue's budget for research.
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