Over the past two decades, emerging market countries and companies have increasingly looked to the private capital markets (i.e. the issuing of stocks and bonds) for larger-scale funding and away from their traditional reliance on syndicated commercial bank loans and Western government financing vehicles.
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"Nothing, frankly, could explain away the scale of this dishonesty other than the greed in pursuit of a lavish lifestyle that was no responsibility of Mr. Clayton's, " the judge said.
Proposing to revise the collective-bargaining agreement in order to shift the pay scale toward veterans and away from rookies is, as far as labor negotiations go, relatively inoffensive.
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Keith Hayes of Goldman Sachs reckons that 500, 000 copies off a single platform is about the point at which scale benefits start to drop away.
Countries with nuclear power typically build large-scale reactors 15 to 20 km away from heavily populated residential areas.
There is no rush however: deployments on this kind of scale are at least a decade away, probably more.
In a study completed late last year, Oak Ridge officials determined that the U.S. is at least 20 years away from large-scale reprocessing of used nuclear fuel, if it decides to pursue such technologies.
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The Panasonic folks, who are doing several of these road shows a year, will be in London for the 2012 Olympics next summer, plugging away on a larger scale than they are at the U.S. Open.
He weighed the fish right away on a hand-held scale called a Boga Grip.
Judging by their tentative and speculative answers, we are still years away from seeing significant, large-scale improvements to the power grid.
Raising LNG imports will be one part in meeting that goal, particularly as development of large-scale production of domestic shale gas resources remains years away.
"If one is concerned about the future of life on a biological time scale, it's relevant to have communities away from the Earth, " Rees notes.
After the collision, the driver did not immediately stop, but rather slowly drove past her, looking out the window as if to scope out the scale of the damage before deciding whether to drive away.
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This is classic disruptive innovation where low end, good enough software and systems eat away at the functionality of existing high end scale-up architectures.
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"To get a useful computer it needs to be probably a million times more complex, so a full-scale useful factoring machine is still at least two decades away, " he said.
In the same way that mass production moved the locus of industry from small shops to huge factories, today's mutations have the potential to shift us away from business models based on economies of scale, asset intensification, concentration and central control.
The question is: Will rank insubordination on a scale arguably not seen in a military commander since MacArthur faded away nearly six decades ago be rewarded by still higher office?
Early on David Filo, now 34, turned away from business and focused on building a supple architecture that could scale up to handle Yahoo's growing audience.
Unless we move away from a monetized economy, and opt in favor of bartering on a scale never seen before, then the intermediaries must remain.
"China's city and rural commercial banks don't have the scale of major banks and so need to offer higher returns to be able to pull customers away from their bigger competitors, " Mr. Ye said.
Of course it is their market-given right not to spend its money but I am 100% sure that the US economy cannot prosper if its best companies hoard cash on this scale and I am as sure that competitor regions are happy to see them idle that cash away.
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Unlike the Balkans, however, Indonesia contains 220m people, and is far and away the world's largest Muslim country: this would be chaos on an epic scale.
Perhaps more worrying, the Sadrists' withdrawal from the government could now make it harder for Mr Maliki to persuade their Mahdi Army militiamen to put away their guns, especially when Sunni bombers continue their carnage on this week's horrifying scale.
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's former headquarters less than 3 miles away into a mix of office, industrial and storage space, said he was wowed by the scale of the Goodyear complex when he first toured it.
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Half a continent away from the headquarters of the Australian industry in Adelaide, the Western Australians tend to be smaller-scale producers, independent of the four big wine companies that dominate the business.
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