It's an industrial process any blacksmith would recognize except for the quality, speed and scale.
"This deal, for us, is all about speed and scale and global reach, " Zipcar's Mr. Griffith said in an interview on Wednesday.
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Mr Olley had previously visited the Sichuan foundry, owned by friend Lu Huagang, and was impressed by the speed and scale of its work.
The sheer speed and scale of these cuts - over 20% and with the biggest reductions in the first two years - will hit the front line hard and go way beyond what independent experts believe can be achieved from efficiencies and better procurement.
And while I have great concerns about the speed, scale, and scope of change, I am encouraged every day by what I see going on in business.
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The combination of size and speed brings economies of scale, boosted further by the route through Strasbourg to Germany opened last summer, and the new high-speed Eurostar link to London.
As might be expected given the scale and speed of production, the quality was uneven.
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Those teams will also be allowed unlimited out-of-season track testing, with no restrictions on the scale and speed of wind-tunnel testing.
But as new sequencing and information technologies develop, and the cost and speed of large-scale projects fall, more such international plant initiatives may well find their way on to the menu.
With that scale and speed of practice with their social experience they could then jumpstart their own appeals to customers to attract more customers through their friends and friends of their friends.
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In this context, we hope this Innovation Challenge will serve as a call to action for technology and data innovators to team with care innovators to propose solutions that can be implemented with speed and have the capacity to scale.
In the meantime, we can be certain that the scale and speed of this current challenge will only increase as CIOs must rapidly and seamlessly enhance their traditional corporate data with vast new streams of social and mobile data to realize the full potential of these strategic Big Opportunities.
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This cat-and-mouse game is being played on a scale, and at a speed, that is unprecedented and growing.
Instead, companies will acquire or look for collaborative ventures because of skill, scale, and speed.
The reorganization is also getting Carlson up to speed for the Beijing Olympics (and, on a smaller scale, for October's Special Olympics in Shanghai).
Colonel JOE CURTIN (Spokesman, Pentagon): The division has almost 300 helicopters, cargo, attack and reconnaissance-type aircraft, so it is an extremely capable division that can provide the necessary speed and shock effect that you would need in a large-scale combat operation.
"If we are to continue economic development and prosperity, we will need to greatly reduce our daily oil consumption, and high-speed rail is the only possible solution that can scale up to meet the growing demand of American mobility while greatly reducing our oil consumption, " said Kunz.
And I just want to point this out -- there has never been a program of this scale, moved at this speed, that has been enacted as effectively and as transparently as the Recovery Act.
The problem, though, is that the scale of the industrialization that is taking place in China is so massive, and the speed with which it is taking place so fast, that it tends to obscure the positive steps that the country is taking and the progress that is being made.
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