Although there have been no calamities on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, tornadoes and rain have caused considerable damage.
People have no idea of the scale of money British banks are owed by European banks.
With the exception of one incident in Glasgow, there have been no large-scale marches or organised attacks against immigrants to match those of the 1970s.
The general public probably have no idea of the sheer scale and scope of property and land on the public sector's books.
When it comes to buying e-books at the high end of the price scale, consumers have no trouble doing so.
But he stresses that this is only on the atomic scale - no Captain Kirks have been beamed up.
Opponents point out that unlike areas in other countries, mass transit is only economic viable in areas with sufficient density and that on a large scale, massive public transit programs have no chance of becoming self-sufficient.
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It may sound like a crazy idea, but Singapore, a tiny island country whose population would have no place to go in the event of a wide-scale evacuation, is giving buried nukes a closer look.
"The DOE loan program provides an important financing 'bridge' at a time when the U.S. private debt markets have little to no experience financing first of their kind utility-scale solar projects, " First Solar Chief Executive Rob Gillette said in an email.
Extreme no-growth zoning and building policies have made all but small-scale development impossible, particularly on the coasts.
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"We have used these reserves before, but never on this scale, and no purchase ever made by the National Gallery has begun to approach the magnitude of this acquisition, " Dr Penny said.
However, he added that as there were no large-scale biorefineries in operation, the team did have to estimate how much bioethanol such a plant would be able to produce in order to calculate the net energy gain.
Canadian canola farmers say they have had 10 years of large-scale use of neonics on canola with no observed ill effect.
Assuming that one has broadly diversified municipal bond holdings, the threat would not seem to come from a biblical-scale wave of defaults. (I must admit that we have no data on muni defaults during biblical times.) The bigger threat to a broadly diversified muni portfolio would seem to be the typical market cycles of run-up followed by correction followed by run-up.
"I can't guarantee that the doctors will decide that there should be no changes at Epsom, but it does now look as if we have a better chance of avoiding the scale of change that looked on the cards a couple of months ago, " he added.
It is no coincidence that companies that put a heavy emphasis on LTV are also the ones that have massive losses as they scale, frequently even through an IPO.
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