Identifying its powerful customer base, immense scale, and access to a hard-to-reach audience, the panelists agreed: Facebook is here to stay, for now.
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Even within the Great Lakes region, Wisconsin, which ranks second in per capita employment in manufacturing, has held onto most of its industrial employment due to its large, highly diversified base of smaller-scale specialized manufacturers.
By establishing a base of large-scale production facilities for solar panels, New York expects to facilitate growth and create many high-paying jobs in upstate New York, which desperately needs them after losing jobs for decades.
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And the sheer scale of its customer base is a strong indication of its process credentials.
They must scale the near-vertical base by climbing rocks and tree roots like ladders -- or take a longer switchback trail -- and then begin an arduous hike uphill, sliding on mud and grasping at alders and shrubs to pull themselves up.
It replicates a smaller-scale test drop tried on Naval Base Guam in 2010, he said.
From 2001-2006, Japan embraced large-scale stimulus, with its monetary base increasing by a mammoth 36% year-on-year at its peak.
The UK troops arrived with around 60 U.S. personnel in eight C-130 aircraft on Thursday to inspect the base for possible use in a large-scale humanitarian operation.
The larger deposit base will give the combined company economies of scale and will enable it to compete with JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America with a "nationwide banking presence, " he says.
Those looking for ski-in, ski-out lodging can bunk up at the Aries Hotel, Acuario Hotel, Escorpio Hotel, Piscis Hotel and Virgo Hotel, all large-scale luxury accommodations located at the base.
To succeed in expanding abroad, banks need scale and a local deposit and customer base.
Weighing in as the 15th most important tool is the scale, a device that provides the base for commerce and coinage.
Social networks also get better as they scale, because you are diversifying the experience base of the network and increasing the likelihood that an individual prompt will spark a relevant response.
At Little Pim we established ourselves pretty quickly as the go-to product for parents seeking foreign language programs for their kids, but we needed to go beyond this customer base if we were going to achieve the kind of scale we dreamed about.
"We are planning to build a permanent base on the moon by 2015 and by 2020 we can begin the industrial-scale delivery... of the rare isotope helium-3, " said Nikolai Sevastianov, head of Russian space vehicle manufacturer Energia, at a seminar in Moscow in January.
That's important in a sector where the science base is strong, notably with Dundee University's drug discovery, but it's proving tough to get scale and momentum in the private sector.
Scale enables BlackRock to spread costs associated with personnel and technology setup over a larger asset pool and investor base letting it charge a more competitive investment advisory fee while maintaining higher operating margins.
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