Upon further inspection, however, the notion that economies of scale force companies to become multinationals does not hold up.
Such a downgrade, or future downgrades, could force a large scale liquidation of these holdings due to changes in the underlying credit quality.
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Meanwhile, members of Mr Obama's cabinet have warned that allowing the cuts to go through would force them to scale back on public services.
He endows a clenched, masochistic character with such scale and force that he takes over the movie.
Kassalow figured BRAC's 80, 000-strong sales force could help him scale up faster while saving money on training and administrative costs.
Beginning in 1992, a series of changes began to restructure the Peach Bowl from a lackluster fundraiser to a large-scale economic force.
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Many Republicans oppose the bill, arguing that it gives too much power to regulators and would force financial firms to scale back their size and put them at a disadvantage.
What it lacked in functionality it could make up for in scale and brute force.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has now moved into the forefront of many significant global organizations as a way for the collective force and resources of a large scale company to make significant inroads to tackle these problems.
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The Metropolitan Police "will know by December the full scale of cuts" facing the force.
Flipping through the force's history, the breadth and scale of the incidents it has had to deal with is apparent.
The large sales force required makes it too expensive at large scale.
For example, if it can scale bigger and keep the adhesion force, it could make for a great way to clean windows on skyscrapers.
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Maintaining a force structure sufficient to engage in large-scale, high-intensity combined arms campaigns and the advanced or specialized assets required to assure access to critical domains is essential to deterrence of conflict, much less war waging.
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Although there are hundreds of group-buying sites in existence, there are only a half a dozen that have a turn-key solution: a known presence in top markets, editorial infrastructure, a credible and local sales force and a sophisticated technology platform that can scale.
To run simulations, Guillermo Owen of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, uses intelligence data from the US Air Force to estimate on a 100-point scale the importance a wanted man attaches to his likes (fishing, say) and priorities (remaining hidden or, at greater risk of discovery, recruiting suicide-bombers).
Errors of detail, perhaps inevitable in a one-man undertaking on this scale, should not distract readers from the force of the central argument.
As we all know, the openness that makes the Internet a force for unprecedented progress can also enable wrongdoing on a vast scale.
An average of nearly 1 million people will be entering the work force every single month for the next 20 years, a scale unprecedented in human history.
"peacekeeping" force--a totally unsuitable arrangement for intervention in a full-scale war--was floundering.
In negotiations held in March between Steven Rattner, the investment banker who leads the task-force, and Sergio Marchionne, Fiat's boss, Fiat agreed to scale back its initial stake to 20% and not to increase it beyond 49% until Chrysler had repaid American taxpayers in full.
So solutions had to be found, even though large-scale disasters continue, such as the recent billion dollar fiasco in the US Air Force.
Abizaid's panel considered and rejected a large-scale reorganization of the mortuary that would have put the Army medical examiners and Air Force morticians under a single commander.
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