They've achieved a scale that truly magnifies their weaknesses.
"We have a different system here in Wales and we haven't seen a catalogue of failures on the scale that we've had in England, " Ms Rochira told BBC Radio Wales.
This takes us into serious crunching - and we have to look to people who've studied the problem on a big scale.
Here, in blue, we've plotted the relative multiple on an inverted scale.
"We're not the smartest people in the world, but at the scale that we work we've probably encountered every problem there is in the system, " says Neubauer, who's spent the past 23 years at Aramark.
And not only are solo and small-cast plays increasingly taking the place of large-scale shows, but I've noticed in the past couple of years that many regional theaters are also opting for significantly less adventurous fare.
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Today's debate brought the Senators closer to large scale immigration reform than they've been in years, but anything the Senate approves must still be reconciled with the House bill and today 71 House members called the Senate proposals fundamentally incompatible with their own.
Now banks all over the eurozone, in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy (as the most extreme examples), are only alive at the moment thanks to the sheer scale of the money they've been able to borrow from the ECB and from their respective national central banks.
And I've not had to fight illnesses remotely on the scale of Patricia Dunn's.
"A full-scale apology means I know I've hurt you, I get to see that in your eyes, " she says.
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"The scale of this opportunity dwarfs anything they've ever had before, " he said.
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The "scale is so much bolder than things we've seen, " said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington nonprofit group.
And while he and others have been monitoring the effects of climate change on reefs for decades, they've never been able to do it on such a large scale.
We've pulled together some numbers to help demonstrate the sort of scale involved but when you involve the likes of Sony, Samsung, Panasonic and more than 150, 000 attendees, it's going to get a little messy.
"Theoretically if you construct the elements we've made at terahertz frequencies, make them even smaller and then scale them up to optical frequencies, you could have perfect lensing at those frequencies, " said co-author Dr Willie Padilla of the University of California, San Diego.
We've also taken the lead on advancing carbon-capture technology to commercial scale for new and existing plants.
Mr. CHRIS CARBONE (Bureau of Labor Statistics): This is a first for BLS. The actual impact and the scale of this disaster is so much greater than we've seen from anything else.
"If enough of us from the outside work hard to develop initiatives on the kind of scale that can bring this about then - as we've seen in the past - government follows fast, " he said.
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On the other hand, people who were at the very top of the income scale -- and I'm now included in that category -- we've seen all the benefits of economic growth when things were going well.
We've struck a similar deal with Mylan, which wants to leverage our development and manufacturing expertise while they help us scale up.
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