Even if I were to buy into the Keynesian stimulus logic, everything in this package is so under-scale as to be rounding errors on the larger economy.
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Even Sir Richard's trademark hype seems to have under-played the scale of the problem.
Mr Horta-Orsorio believes the Independent Commission on Banking has under-estimated the scale of what Lloyds is already being forced to sell.
It would probably end either with a humiliating extraction of the international inspectorate under fire or a full-scale war aimed at rescuing them under conditions that are sure to be less than optimal.
"Clearly there has been a long scale under-investment in the railways in Northern Ireland, " he said.
But just considering economies of scale actually under-estimates the compliance advantage of large corporations.
Creating and implementing large-scale change can be challenging under the best circumstances.
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But Chile has succeeded in attracting large-scale private investment in toll roads under a concession system.
As a result, transmission constraints in the United States and the European Union are threatening to table large-scale wind and solar energy projects under development.
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Fossil fuel activities are done on such a mega-scale with such enormous capital investments that people under 30 can barely appreciate how the enterprise works, let alone make an impact on it.
For America will come up with the money only if its fellow-members agree to a new scale of assessment under which the Americans will regularly contribute rather less than they did and a handful of other countries rather more.
Again, pooled budgets between the two have been under discussion for many years but have yet to come to any large-scale fruition.
Under pressure from the four guarantors, the fighting was confined to the area, small-scale and soon ended.
Poland and Hungary are now seeking access to a number of U.S. trade and financial privileges, including: permanent or multi-year most-favored-nation status, tariff benefits under the generalized system of preferences, eligibility for Overseas Private Investment Corporation programs and large-scale debt relief.
The large-scale film complex will be called Pinewood Atlanta, and Pinewood will manage the facility under an agreement with a group of private investors.
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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