Corporations are too preoccupied with making the quarterly numbers to build their futures.
The computer helped crunch some of the numbers needed to build the first hydrogen bomb.
Removing the inventory build-up from the reported numbers, the real growth rate was an even more anemic 1.5%.
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Rather than a salesman, Blair is a numbers guy, and right now the numbers tell him to build.
Ahmanson was most famously known for Home Savings of America, and there he provided financing to those eager to own homes made increasingly accessible by entrepreneurs who figured out ways to build them in greater and greater numbers at costs that were cheaper and cheaper.
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Eventually, huge numbers of these mutated proteins build up, form insoluble masses within cells, which kill them.
Howard Herzog of the MIT Energy Initiative points out that even when the technology is perfected it will take years to build up the capacity to construct large numbers of clean coal plants.
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Google also plans to opensource the mobile applications, so independent developers can build their own versions, or other services with random numbers.
In contrast to PC-driven social networks like Facebook, which amassed large numbers of users before letting other app makers build on top of its service, mobile-gaming networks seem to be less of a draw than the games themselves.
These numbers could have been even bigger except Apple can not build the products fast enough to meet demands.
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But Mr Legrain has a gift for combining big numbers that offer a sense of the scale of the global build-up in things like household debt while zeroing in on what all this means for people like Thorvaldur Thorvaldsson, a proudly left-wing Icelandic carpenter and unlikely sometime property speculator.
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What if we were to build a solar array large enough to power the entire facility using these solar and land consumption numbers?
Fully integrated into BlackBerry Contacts, when the customer launches the app for the first time, WhatsApp can automatically scan existing phone numbers in the contact directory and extract the ones using WhatsApp, to help customers build out their contacts list and get started right away.
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