Perhaps too heavily influenced by the realities of conducting two large-scale stability operations, the 2005 and 2010 QDRs downplayed the two-major-contingency metric.
But there are two large-scale tent poles dropping this year that frankly mean much more to their respective studios than merely whether or not money is made or franchises continue.
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The spokesman added that the remaining three pieces - two large scale works called One Summer's Day We Went on a Trip to New Brighton and We Have Arrived at Central Station and a "small, rather unusual painting" entitled Miss, said the Policeman, 'And where be you going at this time of night' - would be shown at a later date.
At the moment, for example, a straightforward colonoscopy, requiring a couple of hours in a clinic, is priced at two-thirds the rate of a full-scale splenectomy requiring 20 days of post-operative care.
Further down the track, two more types await large-scale trials.
But al-Maliki said Iraqi lawmakers had agreed to scale back -- from two months to one -- a planned summer recess criticized by U.S. officials.
The new guidance would have a sounder footing if it had argued that no two regional crises were alike and that the requirement to conduct a full-scale decisive combined arms campaign in two locations at one time was not only unlikely, but failed to recognize strategic and operational advantages the U.S. might have in one or both of the two regions.
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On the Istrian peninsula in western Croatia, several varieties of two-part singing and playing in the Istrian scale are preserved by Croatian, Istro-Romanian and Italian communities.
This plant is a small-scale model of two desalination plants Poseidon is proposing, one for Carlsbad and another for Huntington Beach.
They require systems that can scale from a two-person clinic with no IT infrastructure (other than an Internet connection) to a large urban hospital and everything in between.
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Holding (nyse: WW - news - people ) earlier this year, nearly two-thirds of older workers said they wanted to scale back their hours before retiring completely, and one-third said they would postpone their planned full retirement if their employers offered a phased retirement option.
Because radiation from the Crab nebula is so energetic, the electrons that created it must have been travelling very close to the speed of light so close that the difference between the two speeds would bump up against Planck-scale graininess, and show up in the spectrum of the radiation.
The two companies will examine ways of enabling large-scale commercial production of Aquamarine's new wave energy device, known as Oyster.
Two key factors come into play regarding enterprise-scale Big Data management and analytics.
The Large Scale Retail Location Law requires two-thirds support of local residents for a chain store to open a new location.
The home has passed through two owners since then and underwent a small-scale renovation, which included new interior finishes, updated fixtures and a brand-new garden-level kitchen.
It was only half the size of the other two American manufacturers, and scale was becoming all-important.
Move a station or two beyond, heading counter-clockwise, and the scale of the streets becomes grander, the high-rise apartments more numerous.
Encouraged by the results, Ford (nyse: F - news - people ) is now putting larger-scale versions of the system into two other factories.
Working from a one-to-twenty scale polystyrene model, the designer worked closely with an engineering team, including two traditional stone-carvers, in making a vast, jagged construction that, bolted to the walls and secured by steel cables, interweaved gracefully in and out of the shop windows, and loomed above the pavement.
Large-scale forest conservation is difficult because no two forests are alike.
As a global power with worldwide interests, it is imperative that the United States now and for the foreseeable future be able to deter and defeat large-scale, cross-border aggression in two distant theaters in overlapping time frames, preferably in concert with regional allies.
The same year it was released, the Motorola became Galvin's first internationally sold product -- albeit on a fairly small scale, moving two units in Mexico City.
"To get a useful computer it needs to be probably a million times more complex, so a full-scale useful factoring machine is still at least two decades away, " he said.
Small-scale mashups, written by teams of one or two, may be the biggest bet of all.
Other moves included scrapping extraordinary powers granted to the president, limiting his stay in office to two consecutive five-year terms and promoting small- and medium-scale enterprises.
In 2007, Chevron-Texaco's venture capital arm bought significant stakes in two solar energy companies: BrightSource Energy, a developer of utility-scale solar plants, and Konarka Technologies, a developer of photovoltaic materials.
Tanaka suggested that for starters the world needs each year to build 90 utility-scale concentrated solar plants, 17, 000 windmills, two Three Gorges Dams, and 18 nuclear plants.
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On a later reciprocal visit, Lee in turn saw, to no surprise, that China was similarly flowering--only by an order or two of magnitude, on a Chinese scale.
This principle appears to offer the Russians a "two-fer": It establishes that there should be some relationship between the scale of theater missile threats faced by a "side" and the number of theater missile defenses that "side" may have.
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