But these seasoned artisans had limited ambitions, they were not really entrepreneurial enough to want to scale to large operations.
That makes it easy for the handful of large trading operations to push stocks higher.
Moreover, dogs have been trained to sniff out DVDs for raids on large bootlegging operations.
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Ohio's Department of Agriculture is responsible both for permitting and policing large livestock operations--and for promoting them.
There are such large looming operations and I think it's hard to know.
Whatever NPR may be guilty of, we are one of the few large news operations in America with a growing audience.
But many West African countries, who have seen their native shark fisheries destroyed by large offshore operations, voted in favour of the restrictions.
She said the level of tax taken from multinational firms with large UK operations was "outrageous and an insult to British businesses and individuals who pay their fair share".
In the report, Mrs Hodge said the level of tax taken from multinational firms with large UK operations was, "outrageous and an insult to British businesses and individuals who pay their fair share".
This is the way large web operations such as Google and Facebook manage Internet-scale data processing, although the Web players tend to take a do-it-yourself approach based on internally developed or open-source software.
Shares in Ahold, a Dutch supermarket operator with large American operations, recently tumbled after investors took fright at the company's attempt to gloss over an unflattering American accounting treatment in favour of the European one.
Mr. COOK: Most of them are family farms, And the lion's share of the payments go to very large family farming operations.
The company has set up large scale manufacturing operations for diapers in countries like China and is scaling up its sales channels in other South Asian regions.
ConocoPhillips already has large shale gas operations in the U.S. However, low gas prices in the U.S. due to a supply glut have forced Conoco to announce cuts in its plans to develop shale assets in the U.S. We think that it is now more keen to focus on international markets, particularly in Asia, where demand is robust and gas prices are higher.
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Bank of America has large back-office operations in the Dallas area and the city is home to large law and accounting firms as well as professionals who serve the energy industry.
Zambrano says Cemex plans to extend the GPS system to its ready-mix operations in large cities around the world.
So could the commodity and derivative operations of large commercial and investment banks.
But the political appetite for operations involving large numbers of boots on the ground may not recover for a generation.
Perhaps too heavily influenced by the realities of conducting two large-scale stability operations, the 2005 and 2010 QDRs downplayed the two-major-contingency metric.
The focus of the hardware is to significantly speed up data processing for large, data crunching operations like compression, image recognition, and search functions.
It's really very much the case that about 10 percent of the beneficiaries, very large and generally wealthy operations, get over 70 percent of the benefits.
Plus, he says, Citi is a diversified business with a large part of its operations in brokerage and insurance, and it should continue to prosper as rates go up.
Now, the legacy of all that research and exploration is the growing likelihood of large-scale mining operations, fuelled by rising mineral prices, in many parts of the ocean in the coming decades.
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"Adding Virgin Media to our large and growing European operations is a natural extension of the value creation strategy we've been successfully using for over seven years, " said Mike Fries, chief executive of Liberty Global.
Castle Point Capital is mainly invested in financial service companies and real estate investment trusts, similar to the private equity orientation of a related company, Stone Point Capital, also headquartered in Greenwich, Conn, home to many large private hedge fund operations.
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In May Farmeron inked a partnership with Neelsen Agrar, a large German equipment outfit with operations in more than 30 countries, which is selling Farmeron to its clients.
These are generally large companies with substantial lobbying operations.
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Back in January in Bangladesh, its suspension of its election-observer mission and warning that supporting a rigged poll might jeopardise the army's involvement in UN peacekeeping operations played a large part in the cancellation of the vote.
Similarly profound changes, Sikka said, are beginning to ripple through the IT operations of some large customers who are embracing this sense of renewal and simplicity within which cloud computing is not the destination but rather an essential part of the journey.
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The U.S. military will no longer be sized to conduct large-scale, prolonged stability operations.
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