Dean Zarras has been writing software since 1982, focusing on large-scale trading and risk management systems on and off Wall Street.

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Rob Gray represented the grassroots, small scale local currency approach, focusing on full-weight metal coins.

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Leaders need to stop focusing on traditional market leadership, size and scale.

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Part of the rationale for big government-sponsored rebates on what is an otherwise uneconomic source of power is the strategic benefit of distributing small-scale power generation across the landscape rather than focusing it in a hulking coal or nuclear plant.

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The association of parliamentarians focusing on the environment, Globe, does not underestimate the scale of the task, but counsels against despair.

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As ASSIA attempts to reach the scale needed to do an initial public offering, Cioffi is focusing his engineering team on developing management software for wireless networks.

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The British are famous for focusing on the weather, but "this is obviously on a much greater scale, " Mr. Page says.

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While the United States may not be able to afford the scale of support for clean energy that China can, it can compete by focusing on what it has always done best: innovation.

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