Two of the five scenarios involve a short-term fix extending the current tax and spending policy with a promise to fix the next budget and a large-scale long-term compromise.
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So, you have a lot of opportunities to see what is going on with your mutual funds or your individual stocks and look at it on the long-term scale to see where it is in the cycle.
Regardless, ocean-based energy advocates seem to be learning the lessons of their renewable energy predecessors, identifying and addressing environmental impact concerns long before full-scale deployment.
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"Clearly there has been a long scale under-investment in the railways in Northern Ireland, " he said.
Not only must companies choose the right locations for long-term growth and scale economies, they must segment and cluster those locations appropriately given the company's specific business model.
They show that warming spells very like that of the past 100 years occurred repeatedly, long before the large-scale use of fossil fuels and the associated emissions of carbon dioxide gas were a possible factor.
Utility-scale engineers long ago figured out this presents unprecedented operational, safety and control hurdles.
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Microsoft on the other hand dominates the market through a mix of inertia, scale and long-lasting relationships with businesses and resellers.
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So we are a long way off from large-scale production in most non-Gulf coastal regions, and hence that whopping three cents a gallon reduction in gasoline prices may be pushed off past 2030.
The auto industry has been working on so-called V2V technology for a long time but this is the first large-scale test to see how well it works in the real world.
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South Korea and the US - with which it has a long military relationship - had already been conducting large-scale military exercises, following the apparent torpedoing of a South Korean warship by the North on 26 March, which killed 46 south Korean sailors.
The business helped advertisers efficiently buy ad impressions at-scale across the long-tail of the web and its oceans filled with trillions of seemingly undifferentiated ad banners.
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She said that, as with all new medicines, it would be important to monitor closely for side-effects as the drug comes in to long-term use on a large scale.
With the paperwork expected to follow as much as days later, there is the potential for a breakdown approaching the scale of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund debacle, which all but crushed Wall Street in 1998.
He said that although the recession has created "a period of reduced expectations, " the tech companies that push forward now with innovative research will fare better in the long-term than the companies that scale back.
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The short-run focus of most Department of Energy funding misses the main strategic imperative: We need alternatives that can scale to significance long-term without subsidies, and we need a lot more North American oil and gas in the meantime.
Long-term, however, the company needs to think about its full-scale strategy.
Also announced during Tuesday's hour-long presentation to an audience of 500: Another four ad-supported, large-scale projects from DreamWorks Animation, Telepictures and Endemol USA, the reality-giant behind Big Brother and Fear Factor.
Also announced during Tuesday's hour-long presentation to an audience of 500: Another four ad-supported, large-scale projects from DreamWorks Animation (nyse: DWA - news - people ), Telepictures and Endemol USA, the reality-giant behind Big Brother and Fear Factor.
But I am thinking more in the long term, particularly in regard to large-scale space travel, colonization and commerce.
Blending fiction with documentary, interviewing several retired workers and scripting faux interviews with other characters, he brings huge stretches of long-repressed history to life on an intimate scale.
"We are building a leadership position in the conversion of diesel, gasoline and LPG fuels to LNG in Europe, developing a competitive alternative to LNG terminal supply with portable, small-scale LNG fueling solutions for long-haul trucking and small remote energy centers, " said Davor Grcevich, Gasfin managing director.
France also has 3, 500 troops stationed in neighbouring countries - part of the long-standing military commitment to French-speaking Africa that recent governments have actually been promising to scale back.
Once he regains his health and finally commits long-term to a franchise, only then will we see Mr. Howard begin a full-scale rehabilitation of his image.
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But now medical device makers are introducing an array of new, minimally invasive procedures to provide long-term pain relief without all the costs, risks, complications and recovery time of full-scale surgery.
Government spending rose, and so too did government borrowing, on a scale that was clearly unsustainable in the long-term.
Both years saw major storms (F4 or F5 on the F0-F5 Enhanced Fujita scale) plow very long paths through densely populated territory.
Both banks agree that full-scale merger is not the right strategy so long as huge differences remain in Europe's tax and company laws.
"We still await clarity from industrialized nations on the provision of large-scale finance to developing countries for immediate and long-term climate action, " he added.
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