That calculation is included in a new analysis by the Scottish Government's chief economist, Gary Gillespie, setting out the scale of the task in getting the economy going again.

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"We want to take this trend-setting model on a much larger scale, " he adds.

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Major investment firms have been setting aside billions of dollars for large scale acquisitions in single family housing since the downturn, with activity jumping in 2012 as analysts called a market bottom.

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It will be unified, on x86 chips, able to scale up and down, in a private or a public setting.

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In terms of architecture and scale, arguably such a transition will be akin to the difference between setting up an isolated high desert mobile home park and building a space city with the dynamism of the Las Vegas strip.

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This question was addressed in a large-scale project by Gretchen Rubin who tried to increase her happiness over the course of a year by setting herself specific goals that covered, among other areas, marriage, work, leisure, parenthood, friendship, money and so on.

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That is why unions across Japan reeled at the news in January that Toyota's trend-setting union had made the unprecedented move of giving up (very early in the game, too) pay-scale increases this year.

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