He milled the base to the right size and stamped it with his wife's name, Judy.
By virtue of its size and user base of 800-million-plus people, Facebook is at the heart of the personal data economy.
Frazier said that the Xbox 360 installed base is three times the size it was when the previous Halo 3 game was released in 2007.
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Salesforce.com (CRM): The leader in cloud business apps continues to grow at a mid-20% pace despite a revenue base that is multiples the size of its nearest cloud competitor.
Unicom has struggled, signing up only 30 million CDMA customers--well below its capacity of 70 million--a subscriber base only a sixth the size of that of China Mobile, the dominant GSM carrier.
And while many call for the megabank to be unpacked and sold off in parts, Pandit isn't among them, arguing the company's size and broad base of businesses make it better suited to withstand economic cycles.
Republicans led by their conservative base seek to shrink the size and cost of government, opposing any new tax revenue while pushing for spending cuts and lower tax rates that they say will spur more economic growth.
She was petrified when doctors found a golf-ball-size tumor near the base of her skull in June 2007.
It directly reduces the size of the monetary base and the funds available to the banking system for lending.
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The size of the monetary base, which the Fed controls absolutely, increased at an average annual rate of 6.35%.
The U.S., with unusually small reserves given the size of its monetary base, counts with a gold ratio of 74%.
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AOL's flair for understanding the needs of the mass market and the size of its subscriber base will combine with Netscape's Internet browser and electronic-commerce software.
And on February 7th Alcatel-Lucent unveiled technology that reduces the size of a wireless base station from a filing cabinet's to that of a Rubik's cube.
Banks that must increase their ratios can only do so in one of two ways: raise fresh capital or shrink the size of their asset base.
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Mind-boggling increases in the size of the monetary base have had no impact on NGDP and relatively little impact upon prices, other than on the price of gold.
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The size of the monetary base is determined by the amount of gold that is presented to the Treasury (or private banks) to be minted into gold coins.
During the 17 quarters prior to the financial crisis (which started with 3Q2008), the Fed increased the size of the monetary base by 13.3%, and NGDP grew by 24.4%.
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Instead, it is the single most important budgetary variable because it affects the size of the tax base and the amount of government spending linked to the level of employment.
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Over the three years from September 2008 to September 2011, the Fed increased the size of the monetary base by a total of 183.7%, and produced total NGDP growth of 5.6%.
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So far, winning deals in the Middle East seems to depend in larger part on the political astuteness and lobbying skills of oil bosses than on the size of their capital base.
The actual Bretton Woods system failed because the Fed did not manage the size of the monetary base so as to keep the free market price of gold equal to the official price.
The IEA states in its most recent World Energy Outlook that there are many sources of uncertainty surrounding future oil supplies, but the size of the resource base is not one of them.
Instead, the Fed is tasked with employing its Open Market operations to adjust the size of the monetary base so as to keep the COMEX price of gold as close as operationally practical to a target gold price.
By increasing the size of the monetary base (which the Fed controls to the penny), the Fed can increase NGDP, although it cannot control how much of the nominal growth occurs as inflation, and how much shows up as real output.
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Back in 2007, if Newsweek management would have simply kept its cool, made some adjustments to the size of the rate base, ad prices and minor editorial adjustments, the magazine would be a lot smaller, but would be just fine today.
Roughly 6 weeks ago in a Forbes Sports Money piece, I argued that the Chicago Cubs were one of the biggest anomalies in professional sports for their inability to find consistent success despite favorable local market conditions (i.e. a large market size coupled with an enthusiastic fan base).
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Underwriters consider a variety of factors in pricing policies, including the fund's size, its strategy, investor-base, performance, volatility, leverage and service providers.
The company's size, and the breadth of shareholder base - many of whom, no doubt, want to cash in some of their investment - meant that a stock market listing became inevitable.
And competition between Google, Facebook, Yahoo, fixed and mobile operators to seize control of the data opportunities of a global and very large customer base in mobile (at least 4 times the size of the fixed line internet population) is impacting on other sectors.
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That will lead lenders to "tighten restrictions on credit facilities, either through taking collateral, reducing the size of the facility, or restricting borrowing base calculations, " the agency said.
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