Technopak is advising groups of small shopkeepers in various places on how to get together and gain at least some advantage of scale in purchasing and marketing.
Fifty-five percent of New York students met the English Language Arts proficiency standards in 2012 by scoring at least a 3 on a scale of 1 to 4, and 65 percent scored at least a 3 on the math tests.
In addition to a new numerical scale, at least one company is assigning letter grades to those scores.
BYD, a Hong Kong-listed automaker based across the border in Shenzhen, has aims of becoming bigger than Toyota someday, but in the short term at least, they may have to scale back their expectations.
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In August, China said it would begin developing a large-scale demonstration project in 10 or more cities to put at least 1, 000 hybrid, fuel-cell and all-electric vehicles on the road in each of those cities and provide the necessary infrastructure for the project.
Of course, if you want to do it at any serious scale, you need to have at least a few million dollars in spare cash lying around, but it turns out, a surprising number of people do have that kind of play money.
That, in turn, may discourage at least some CEOs from putting their thumbs on the scale.
But the company also warned that the drive industry is going to be badly disrupted for at least the next few quarters by the recent severe flooding in Thailand, home to large-scale production of both drives and related components.
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But the security services and the police claim, in London, at least, that this was a very credible plot, fairly sophisticated and quite ambitious in its grand scale.
On Monday, Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast of the United States, flooding entire towns in New York and New Jersey, triggering large scale power outages and killing at least 17 people.
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More importantly, the member governments of the African Union promised in Maputo in 2003 to devote at least a tenth of their budgets to agriculture by 2008, a scale of resources orders of magnitude greater than the Gates and Rockefeller millions.
Only in old movies--at least until 1981, when Harper (Judge Roy Bean) Creigh, a scale-model designer from Orange County, Calif.
Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel strategies beyond grants from governments and the European Union), and there is no demand for freshwater since saline water does even better to promote the growth of certain highly oil-yielding strains.
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