People have no idea of the scale of money British banks are owed by European banks.
An hour runs about 930, 000 points, to give you an idea of the scale in effect here.
If you look at a graphical representation of Russian inflation, you get some idea of the scale of the improvement.
That example gives an idea of the scale of the problem and the scale of the steps necessary to close the gap permanently.
Good replicative scale of an idea depends on two things: the (demonstrated) local effectiveness of an idea, and the strength of institutions that can implement it at scale and change policies accordingly.
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The general public probably have no idea of the sheer scale and scope of property and land on the public sector's books.
To test the idea on a grand scale, researchers at Wageningen University and the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute acquired the signal strengths from 2, 400 links operated by T-Mobile NL, over two 12-day periods in 2011.
The idea of balancing some cosmic scale, of restoring the moral order to equilibrium, is deeply appealing.
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The team used a prototype to demonstrate the idea, hiding centimetre-scale objects illuminated with polarised green or red laser light.
Swiss banks are interested in the idea of extracting economies of scale by fusing their branch networks with bigger ones in Germany.
In the UK a similar idea, on a smaller scale, has seen a day dedicated to encouraging people to use their local record store.
"We were driven by the scale of the idea and a shared passion for the poetic dimension of engineering and its sculptural potential, " says Norman Foster in "Millau Viaduct, " a slim monograph on the bridge.
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The idea is to get presence and scale, and pick up a lot of lesser-value sales, somewhat the way Google makes billions based on very small transactions.
This was the first time we had done a broadcast on this kind of scale and we had no idea if anyone would be in the least bit interested!
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And there could be retailing of equity stakes - that is, aimed at the small-scale investor wanting to take a punt on a small-scale company with a big idea.
Right now, the critical barriers to entry for an entrepreneur with a disruptive idea (read: technology which may scale exponentially and unpredictably) are gaining access to low-cost, efficient infrastructure, implementing extremely complex software to maximize compute power and storage, and minimizing maintenance concerns.
But liberal Democrats won't like the idea of extending cuts so far up the income scale, and conservative Democrats don't want to raise any taxes right now, so that approach might fail as well.
Insisting on having more than one supplier is probably a good idea, although there are strong arguments that economies of scale are vital to making nuclear energy affordable.
Goddard, in the early years of the past century, established the idea that intelligence could be measured along a single, linear scale.
What is troublesome is not just that the idea, like other geoengineering schemes, is untested on any appreciable scale.
The idea is to foster a combination of Linux (for large-scale software projects) and Wind River (for small, quick devices).
Although this idea is several decades old, Lockheed Martin flew the first large-scale hybrid prototype only this year.
The Chinese market was not able to offer any respite for Japanese exporters, as investors were still coming to terms with the idea of a moderate stimulus package in China, rather than a large scale infrastructure-heavy stimulus package.
YouNoodle co-founder Bob Goodson says he ditched the idea of making predictions in 2010, and instead applied his knowledge of large-scale data analysis to launch a new venture that identifies technology trends for large companies and governments.
The first big idea that he stresses is the creation of a new agency to spearhead innovation and scale up any of the many pilot schemes contained in the bills that manage to reform delivery or payment systems.
With massive growth comes the idea to do something better, give something back, use the growing platform to bring scale to philanthropy and activism.
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