Those that rise to the top of the ratings scale--like helium gas itself--receive the greatest monetary compensation.
In Africa, the corporate citizenship programs for companies like Shell, De Beers and Monsanto consist mostly of small-scale social projects like health clinics or micro-credit schemes.
In the past small-scale designers like Brian Case never could afford the cost or learning time required to work with high-end CAD software.
There is still value in being a part of large-scale platforms like Facebook, because it puts you in front of millions and millions of eyes.
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We also deliberately omitted some vehicles that rated higher on the particulate-emissions scale, including exotics like the Ferrari 599 GTO and high-performance variants like Mercedes-Benz's AMG.
Carnegie was an old-school, large-scale hustler, like his contemporaries, Rockefeller, Jay Gould and Vanderbilt.
Part of the multi-million dollar company's work is dealing with small-scale crime, like recovering fuel stolen from a petrol station.
Small-scale entertainment applications like these, says Lifton, may be more realistic in the near term than Paradiso's dreams of large-scale X-Reality.
Experts said there may not be time to carry out the multiple independent audits that large-scale construction projects like stadiums typically require to ensure safety.
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Or she could make a portfolio sale to a large scale institution like TIAA-Cref or an endowment like Harvard, which are known to have a modest preference for farmland.
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Spend celebrity-scale dollars and you get celebrity-scale rehab facilities, which certainly can look more like posh resorts than medical treatment centers.
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Companies stand to gain much more by expanding such investments to include community-scale sustainable energy innovations like Tapergie.
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It has ventured into large-scale utility power projects like the CSVR only recently with the acquisition of PowerLight Corporation.
In 2012, the growth of U.S. oil supply saved the market from significant supply-side tightness given the scale of non-OPEC supply disappointments elsewhere, like in Brazil.
Astonishingly, Hess turns this fable-like premise into a juvenile but grand-scale vision of earth and heaven.
Large-scale renovation projects have been carried out at sites like Angkor and ground-breaking case studies have been published on the effects of climate change on sites around the world.
If you measure Mr Gore on a left-right scale, he looks like a conventional centrist.
Even grander in scope--and likely price--are the full-scale city communities, much like those in Dubai, which are being developed around the nation.
And I think that that principle of large-scale guest worker program seems like it's in conflict with our basic notion of a democratic republic made up of citizens.
"They bought a subdivision of Intel called X-Scale, which makes the processor that goes into high-end cellphones like smart phones, " Shah says.
According to scientists from a smattering of institutions, the atomic-scale chickenwire material has the ability to absorb light effectively -- much like a sponge -- over a broad range of wavelengths.
Bhatia says that TigerText is a targeted solution that can accommodate the devices that doctors and other workers want to use, and is also far less expensive than large-scale Hospital Information Management System software or integrated tablet-software solutions from vendors like Cisco or Alcatel.
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In light of its scale and high-profile, Apple does seem like a juicy target for hackers.
But Mr Legrain has a gift for combining big numbers that offer a sense of the scale of the global build-up in things like household debt while zeroing in on what all this means for people like Thorvaldur Thorvaldsson, a proudly left-wing Icelandic carpenter and unlikely sometime property speculator.
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As great forces of history converge to human scale, this modern-day boom town feels like the Wild West but without the confident self-reliance: the articulate residents are painfully aware of the close link between their sustenance and their misery, and international bureaucrats reveal a terrible disconnection from the reality on the ground as they encourage the unchecked development.
Sir George Buckley, the boss of 3M, a big firm with a 109-year history of innovation, argues that companies like his can combine the virtues of creativity and scale. 3M likes to conduct lots of small experiments, just like a start-up.
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They like to invest in quantum-scale enterprises they can exit at ten times revenue.
Van Dien would like to see a full-scale Starship Troopers game in the future.
Many social enterprises struggle with scale, and technology often seems like the silver-bullet.
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