It had shown the city had the "the infrastructure, facilities and ambition to compete on a world scale and that is something we should celebrate".
Second, a scheme to transfer direct ownership of shares in RBS and Lloyds from the state to 50 million adults on the National Insurance register probably requires the kind of massive IT project which the public sector has a history of bungling on a world-class scale.
And much like social media, the impact that direct marketing has had on our cultural landscape and business world has been on a global scale.
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Why is it that so few women have changed the world on a massive scale in the same way that men have?
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Indeed, far from reducing crime, prohibition has fostered gangsterism on a scale that the world has never seen before.
Another example from the medical device world, on a smaller scale: A Huthwaite-trained salesman set out to sell back braces to a doctor who was opposed to the use of braces.
Applicants are asked to submit technology-based projects that could have a large-scale impact on a problem facing the people today and make the world a better place.
What is destroying the world's reefs on such a massive scale is a phenomenon known as bleaching.
With this mentality, the outsourcing market will continue to expand as corporations are required to source materials, talent and innovation from anywhere in the world in order to compete on a global scale.
Apple ( AAPL - news - people ) in an increasingly quality-oriented app world, not a browser world, then you have to do something to move up on the value scale, " says Doctor, adding: "It seems to me that part of Google's strategic thinking is that it is becoming a more quality-oriented news world.
Farmers buy inputs and sell crops on a scale that makes sense only if there are world markets for them.
The home of a world-class collection of premium brands, AOL creates original content that engages audiences on a local and global scale.
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Good programs, however, that do customize for these different learning needs and lead to increased student engagement and time on task, should be easier to scale in a digital world as opposed to an analog one.
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And the World Bank may suit her zeal to do good on a global scale rather more comfortably than the maker of popular but largely fatty, salty and sugary foodstuffs.
The world's nations will have to be ranked on a sliding scale with the richest polluters expected to cut most and contribute most cash towards helping the poor get clean energy and adapt to climate change.
Ultimately the dollar is the single most important price in the world for its value--influencing prices and investments on a global scale.
But in the larger scheme of things, those mistakes rank on a scale with the failed Dieppe raid along the coast of France during World War II.
Clearly most of us would be but the astonishing history of News Corp is not just the criminality at the News of the World but also its ability to err as a business, on such a scale.
Goold-Haws finds that younger people are more open to the ideas of collaborating with international contacts and this might well be because they are so used to an open, highly connected world in which online gaming and social media bring people together on a global scale.
What happens when the commercial world and governments decide to embark on an automated capture of information on a scale never before seen?
To maximize the potential pulling power of having the world's biggest tee in Casey, Bohannon is also thinking on a grand scale to market the town's gargantuan landmark.
The yards and meters labels on the scale of a map of Vatican City, which was contained in a World News graphic on Saturday about the papal conclave, were incorrectly reversed.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A laser attack on a lymph node provides the drama behind the top-rated video in Nikon's 2012 Small World in Motion competition, which celebrates time-lapse movies made on a microscopic scale.
But that would leave BAE a much-diminished operation in the UK, without the scale to compete on the world stage.
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As with the run-up to those events (though on a larger scale), what we are witnessing now is simply the inflation of a world-wide bubble, which will sooner or later burst with agonizing consequences.
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By making it possible to track customers in the physical world as easily as we do on the Web, indoor positioning is poised to bring the power of web analytics into the physical world, giving us real-time insights into human behavior and habits on a massive scale.
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