Although some members of the Essex Police Federation say officers were taking patients to hospital on a "daily basis", the scale of the problem across the east of England remains unclear.

BBC: News

Public cloud platforms achieve a lower cost basis by leveraging commodity infrastructure and economies of scale that come through multitenancy, automation, and standardization, he writes in a new post and report.

FORBES: Think Twice, Three Times, Before Moving Existing Apps to the Cloud

There are economies of scale in oversight: While 10 or 20 basis points spent on oversight costs for a very large institutional investor might be prudent, that may be woefully inadequate for a smaller entity that is pursuing a high equity and highly diversified strategy.

FORBES: CIO Outsourcing: Questions Investment Committees Need to Ask

He compared the prospects to October 1987, when portfolio insurance, just "a bunch of stop-loss orders on a large-scale basis, " caused the market to plunge 23% in one day.

FORBES: Omaha-Cum-Lourdes

The last thing these unions would sanction would be the mass employment of young workers on a temporary basis at living, but not union-scale, wages and benefits.

FORBES: New Geographer

Even the basis of a strategy is lacking, for little is really known about the nature or scale of the problem.

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The World Water Assessment Programme is both global and local in scale, for it must check the accuracy of the big picture on the basis of snapshots of water in the field.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Program (WWAP)