That swift little colt could have become 10 times the size of Taylor Swift, and I don't mean on a scale.
It would also mean that large scale solar farms, like the giant array in Alentejo, Portugal, could increase their output while saving on energy used to track the sun.
Both Republicans and Democrats have admitted that any economic stimulus plan of this scale will mean a return to deficit spending.
For a large company old scale economics mean they must sell, sell, sell and maintain corporate performance at double digit annual growth.
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For most industries, failure on this scale would mean destruction, after all.
Smaller-scale projects mean fewer headaches while providing excellent returns on investment.
Sakhalin may soon offer all of Russia a foretaste of what large-scale oil investment can mean.
Growth does not mean jobs on anything like the scale it used to.
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Economic conditions and the scale of such projects mean that only the very brave will invest now, he says.
On a larger scale, that could mean Google gets in trouble for pointing the way to illegally shared copyrighted content.
The lack of medicine and facilities and the scale of the injuries mean that many people will perish from a lack of timely medical care.
But large-scale production requirements also mean that some jobs will be transferred to countries such as India, Bangladesh, Cambodia and Vietnam while others will move to China's interior.
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According to Matt Johnson, the 23-year-old cofounder of Big Words, economies of scale and centralized distribution mean his company sells books for less and still realizes higher margins than brick-and-mortar bookstores.
"The location and scale of these problems mean they are unlikely to be tackled effectively by the conventional means of attracting inward investment or persuading private firms to move in and provide jobs, " he said.
Over a few decades this would amount to a minute's difference, but over several hundred years this would mean the atomic clock time-scale and the time-scale based on the Earth's rotation would be out by an hour.
Hall noted that even full-scale production doesn't mean there will be an immunization campaign.
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But for the political parties, the scale of such adjustments could mean big - if temporary - tax rises as well as further cuts in vital public services, something that no one wants to talk about going into a general election.
And in practice, the insertion of a new grade will mean that it will devalue grades lower down the scale.
But there are two large-scale tent poles dropping this year that frankly mean much more to their respective studios than merely whether or not money is made or franchises continue.
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The result: Mr. Bush was almost exactly in the middle, ranking 19th out of the 40 presidents who served long enough to evaluate, with a mean score of 3.01 on a five-point scale.
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But the sheer scale of the failings that have come to light recently mean that suspicion and wariness will not vanish so easily this time around.
At minimum what it may mean is that developers should rethink the moment-to-moment scale and camera position of a console title handheld port, even if from a computational perspective they can deliver an exact copy.
"There are some very tough decisions in there that we wouldn't normally want to make but the scale of government cuts we are having to deal with mean some of these decision are required to have a secure future for the city, " he said.
Analysts said the scale of Hon Hai's operations and the tedious nature of the work mean difficulties for the company likely will continue.
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The high levels of consumer debt in America, Britain and elsewhere, built up on the back of booming property markets, mean that there is a risk of any renewed economic weakness being magnified into a full-scale recession.
Does that mean that the approach the White House has settled on in reaction to the election last night is to scale back the bill?
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