The scale of the underlying problems is immense.

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The company also said it had improved efficiency through economies of scale, which enhanced underlying profit margins.

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With an underlying computational fabric that enables collaboration on a massive scale across borders, we are beginning to see what is possible if we combine open standards with crowdsourcing our global challenges.

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Such a downgrade, or future downgrades, could force a large scale liquidation of these holdings due to changes in the underlying credit quality.

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Everywhere you go you are assaulted up by the piled-up mementos of Western culture (and Eastern, and intergalactic), jumbled together with no sense of scale, appropriateness or even a basic understanding of the underlying ideas.

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The underlying changes in the climatic system could not be reversed over any time scale relevant for decision-makers, limiting the efficacy of traditional recovery measures.

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