Arguably, THQ had to made a play for the AAA space, and could not absorb the costs when it fell short without the scale or market power of its larger rivals.
Though the study was short and small-scale, the results say something about how the ways in which we choose to move our bodies affect our body chemistry, and possible long-term health.
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Interactive advertising tips the scale toward the short-term, the click-though rate.
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Nathalie Gamory, of Monaco Real Estate, an affiliate of the Savills agency, says that on Monaco's scale, a short distance can make a vast difference in price.
Only the 318 in question, however, are close enough to the Milky Way for the predicted galactic speed limit not to have been imposed (300m light years may sound a long way, but it is a short hop on the cosmic scale).
Although this is a small scale operation, the Iranians could turn it into a large scale one in a very short time.
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The Pentagon, which wanted to keep those wars limited and short, avoided planning for large-scale manufacturing, even after its necessity became obvious.
It's going to be a challenge trying to get on with normal life - but it's 16 days for the Olympics and 12 for the Paralympics which is a short amount of time in the grand scale of things for the greatest sporting event in the world.
BYD, a Hong Kong-listed automaker based across the border in Shenzhen, has aims of becoming bigger than Toyota someday, but in the short term at least, they may have to scale back their expectations.
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As noted above, even a quarter-percent increase in short-term interest rates would require a full-scale reversal of QE2.
By doing so we have a better chance of creating lasting, large-scale change and avoiding the trap of disconnected, short-lived do-gooding that ultimately goes nowhere.
The dynamics are a bit involved but in short export industries will tend to be folks who gain from increasing returns to scale.
Short-term margins might see some further declines but Daimler expects the economies of scale and cost-cutting inititatives to improve its margins to around 8% from 2013.
In short, it seems President Obama has been engaged in gun-walking on a massive scale.
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But while the scale of improvements in child survival is immense, globally we are still far short of achieving Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 to reduce child mortality by two-thirds.
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Those overruns are partly to blame for leaving Mars exploration short of the multibillion-dollar commitment needed for another "flagship" mission of the scale it would take to fetch rocks and soil from the Red Planet and bring them home.
So when designing that data center with powerful but rigid, scale-up systems, the tendency is to make sure it never comes up short.
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Trained staff are supposed to interpret these short messages and sort each type of side-effect into coded groups - so that the scale of the problem, if any, can be assessed.
In short, the digital economy turns business into a Moneyball game, in which leveraging data leads to global scale development and higher profitability.
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In short, flash is a better technology that now has become cost effective enough to be adopted on a mass scale.
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He apologised for the scale of the problems caused by the power cuts and said they would be resolved "in a relatively short period".
The short-run focus of most Department of Energy funding misses the main strategic imperative: We need alternatives that can scale to significance long-term without subsidies, and we need a lot more North American oil and gas in the meantime.
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