Observed trends could have global-scale consequences for rainfall and drought patterns.
Today Argo provides the first-ever global-scale, all-weather subsurface observations of the oceans, an unprecedented dataset for researchers studying the temperature, salinity, and circulation of the global oceans and how these change over periods ranging from days to decades.
After expanding the domestic market he spearheaded a global scale-up in the mid-2000s, making a series of acquisitions.
The sustainability and development problems that we as a society face are as varied as they are complex and will require both global and community-scale solutions.
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He has a record of profitably growing businesses, and managing complex, large-scale global enterprises.
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Pursuing this altruistic goal doggedly over a 45-year business career, he's achieved global scale for his Jalgaon head-quartered company.
From natural disasters and political unrest, to turbulent commodity prices, business on a global scale brings never-before-seen risk.
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Cai Jian, deputy director of the Centre for Korean Studies at Shanghai's Fudan University, disagrees and tells Global Times that a large-scale military conflict is unlikely to break out because North Korea's threats are largely just psychological warfare against the US and South Korea.
By definition this prevents women from leading large-scale, disruptive global change.
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He called the global turmoil "far more large-scale and far more dangerous than the 1998 crisis", but said Russians "showed that we are a mature, creative, confident nation with inner vital strength".
Clinton admitted that the deepening impact of the financial meltdown, which is dominating the agenda at this year's meeting in Davos, had left many people frightened -- but said the global scale of the crisis proved that the world's nations could no longer afford to turn their backs on one another.
Double-digit growth at a global scale implies the addition of close to 220 million Internet users annually.
Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.
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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But when it's time to pitch multinationals looking for economies of scale and help in global brand-building, Sorrell does a 180-degree turn and demands his independent firms come in for the kiss.
Ultimately the dollar is the single most important price in the world for its value--influencing prices and investments on a global scale.
On the first group, he writes that all could use their strong balance sheets and global cross-marketing ability to boost subscriber growth and scale up investment in content.
Like Ford Motor, GM is moving toward so-called global architectures-- single sets of components for vehicles worldwide--which will boost its economies of scale.
Its union with Freeport, it said, would benefit from strong global demand for copper, alongside a scarcity of large-scale copper development projects.
Similarly, our national future lies in being the systems integrator for innovation on a global scale, a role we are particularly well-positioned to play.
And no matter how good its cars are, given that General Motors of the U.S. by itself sells over 400, 000 vehicles each month, the Malay-sian company does not have the econo-mies of scale to compete in a global market where the giants keep getting bigger.
On a global scale, this is the third time IEA member-country stocks have been used.
Along with a global recession came a drying up of both capital for large-scale project financing and investor tolerance for the sort of risk inherent in early-stage cleantech ventures.
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With tight budgets, few mid-size firms can afford to take their eye off top-line growth to re-implement business applications that can scale or provide global reach required to meet their objectives.
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But to do so on a global scale would require turning trillions of tons of greenhouse-gas emissions into a substance that could be stored cheaply and easily underground or in ocean beds.
His company is a leader in large-scale cloud solutions, with about 2, 500 global clients.
Global Payments is the latest company to fall victim to a large-scale hacking incident.
Large sun-grazing comets could bring on the sort of global electronics meltdown usually associated with electromagnetic pulse weapons or a full-scale nuclear exchange.
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What Chrysler needs, more than ever, is a mass-market partner that can provide the global reach and economies of scale it needs to make a decent profit selling cars to America's middle class and to expand beyond its North American base.
Rising sea levels, salination of fresh water, droughts, floods... the maths of future climate impacts are inexact, but on a global scale the costs are likely to rise, not fall - and by far more than the costs borne by highly profitable Chinese airlines as they fly inside the EU's climate policy umbrella.
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