Housing densities tend to be much lower in and around London than in other cities of similar scale like New York, Paris and Tokyo.
For instance Geoffrey West and Luis Bettencourt, both of the Santa Fe Institute, found that cities scale much like organisms.
Bruce whispers something to her, and she giggles all up and down the scale, like she used to when she was little and being tickled.
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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Taking an organization to scale is like climbing a mountain.
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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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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.
Carnegie was an old-school, large-scale hustler, like his contemporaries, Rockefeller, Jay Gould and Vanderbilt.
Those that rise to the top of the ratings scale--like helium gas itself--receive the greatest monetary compensation.
Part of the multi-million dollar company's work is dealing with small-scale crime, like recovering fuel stolen from a petrol station.
But retail pricing relates closely to scale so companies like Flint and Tinder find it difficult to compete with the chains.
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.
Car-sharing services such as Zipcar are already doing this on a small scale in places like Boston, New York and Washington, D.
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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In a note to investors this morning, Prudential Equities analyst Timothy Anderson wrote that he is unconvinced about the benefits of scale for drugmakers like Novartis and Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ).
Merging Fiat and America's weakest carmaker, each a struggling regional manufacturer with annual sales of barely 2m vehicles, will produce a global competitor which can realistically aim to sell 6m, enjoying the same economies of scale as rivals like Volkswagen and Toyota.
However, the sheer scale that makes sites like Pinterest popular is too much for any organization.
If you measure Mr Gore on a left-right scale, he looks like a conventional centrist.
Companies stand to gain much more by expanding such investments to include community-scale sustainable energy innovations like Tapergie.
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If you compress and expand the time scale just as you like, you can make any event look inevitable.
Growth does not mean jobs on anything like the scale it used to.
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It has ventured into large-scale utility power projects like the CSVR only recently with the acquisition of PowerLight Corporation.
There is no sign of a Labour reverse on anything like this scale.
Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
"I wanted to mediate between the walls' scale and the touchable, human scale of decorative objects like candlesticks, " he said.
The Gingrich team still lacks the funds to run a television-advertising campaign on anything like the scale of Mr. Romney's effort.
Not, I would emphasize, anything like the scale that China is proposing.
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