In present-day Iraq, the answer is, not much, for where Mr Hussein stands out is in the scale and single-mindedness of his building campaign.
An average of nearly 1 million people will be entering the work force every single month for the next 20 years, a scale unprecedented in human history.
They frequently depend on venture-capital funds which are dwarfed by the cost of even a single utility-scale power plant.
But the slumping European economy and the success of its rival BMW's Mini brand has nudged the manufacturer to make a full-scale re-entry into what is still the most profitable single car market in the world (though China is now bigger in volume terms).
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.
Thinking about a single parade float makes it eminently clear the scale of operation New Orleans is running.
Ultimately the dollar is the single most important price in the world for its value--influencing prices and investments on a global scale.
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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The new versions of the Punto and Palio in a few years will share chassis as well as engines and gearboxes, enabling production of some 2m vehicles from a single platform, and yielding the sort of economies of scale these days enjoyed only by the likes of Toyota, with its Corolla world car.
Goddard, in the early years of the past century, established the idea that intelligence could be measured along a single, linear scale.
But they may be underestimating the potential for productivity gains in Europe, as the single currency boosts competition and encourages firms to exploit economies of scale through mergers and acquisitions.
The single currency is boosting competition and encouraging firms to exploit economies of scale through mergers.
His margins are consistently high (14.7% OpInc in 3FQ11), since HP has few rivals in printing and none on its scale, but his growth rate is in the low single digits at best.
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Call me crazy but leaders cannot function on a global scale if they worry about every single tiny detail in the business.
Although those first prototypes will have storage roughly equivalent to NAND flash at tens of gigs per circuit, the plan is to rapidly scale up to 100s of gigs and finally to 1TB on a single chip.
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Barra's mission is to make the hard product decisions early--and stick with them--so that GM can speed the transition to "global architectures": meaning the use of single sets of components for vehicles worldwide to drive up GM's economies of scale.
He proposes the industrial-scale culturing (biomanufacturing, as he describes it, rather than farming) of single-celled algae that have been genetically engineered to turn out fuel-ready hydrocarbons.
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If humans ever do go to asteroids or Mars, the scale of the infrastructure needed to complete a safe round trip could not possibly be launched on a single rocket from Earth.
They can add skills in response to market demands, adjust fees up or down, scale work to fit their life and income goals and are not reliant on the economies of a single employer for survival.
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Abizaid's panel considered and rejected a large-scale reorganization of the mortuary that would have put the Army medical examiners and Air Force morticians under a single commander.
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This may be the single most important issue and it lies at the heart of why the LTV model eventually breaks down and fails to scale ad infinitum.
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