Astonishingly, Hess turns this fable-like premise into a juvenile but grand-scale vision of earth and heaven.
Now, however, Miss Bhutto comes as a failed former prime minister, accused (but not convicted) of grand-scale thieving.
Such grand-scale geoengineering, as it is known, would not merely be a technical challenge to implement in reality.
Yet any economist should have been able to predict the effects of such grand-scale interference with the market.
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It is not, however, the grand-scale, highly-innovative product that many were expecting.
These grand-scale premonitions are largely based on Kurzweil's law of accelerating returns, which states that the development of technology has been increasing exponentially since the beginning of time.
The environment has moved to the top of their political agenda, and they have promised increased environmental investment, set impressive targets for reducing pollution and launched grand-scale campaigns to address particularly challenging problems of environmental degradation.
"In the grand scheme -- and on a grand scale -- there are hundreds of tons of weapons, munitions, artillery, explosives that are unaccounted for in Iraq, " the official said.
The home is built on a grand scale, with 40-foot-high ceilings and a foyer that includes busts of famous composers inserted in the ceiling.
This is economic self-flagellation on a grand scale.
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Although sales and profits rocketed in the early 1990s, he was seen to have misjudged on a grand scale the possibilities and growth of the internet - a technology platform that Microsoft has been unable to replicate its market dominance on.
Market-fixing, fraud, and conspiracy on a grand scale, and frankly a more likely story, given that key evidence in the MW report has already been refuted.
Nokia needs to pull out all the heavy artillery -- major device launches, carrier support, impressive software, and a seamless user experience -- if it wants the Ovi Store to succeed on a grand scale, and by all accounts, they're serious about making that happen with the recent integrations of MOSH and WidSets.
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This dirtying-up of corporate balance sheets is now taking place on a grand scale.
It is now the largest all-internet bank in the U.S. But E-Trade's grand design is all too easily replicated by rivals on a far larger scale.
Its casinos don't have the scale or the attractions of the Bellagio, the New York-New York or the MGM Grand.
The show piece reactor at Olkiluoto-3 in Finland is years behind schedule and has become a byword for engineering incompetence on a grand scale.
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