It had shown the city had the "the infrastructure, facilities and ambition to compete on a world scale and that is something we should celebrate".
Meanwhile brighter prospects loom eastwards as BP lays the groundwork for a second world-scale plant at their BP Zhuhai site in Guangdong Province, China.
Shell foresees a gas processing plant and two side-by-side pipelines across the Andes toward Pisco, where Shell sees scope for a world-scale petrochemicals park.
Based on this figure, the company would need to stream about 33 new events of World Cup scale every year in order to double its media content delivery revenues.
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"This movie is a fun way to share the atomic-scale world, " Heinrich said.
"The biggest challenge was that we had to create such an elaborate large-scale world all from scratch, " says Nelson Lowry, who worked on the film at Three Mills Studios for more than two years as its production designer.
In string theory, the forces and particles of which the universe is now composed are actually vibrations of tiny strings made from these ten dimensions (six of which are confined to such strings, and thus are not perceivable in the human-scale world).
Second, a scheme to transfer direct ownership of shares in RBS and Lloyds from the state to 50 million adults on the National Insurance register probably requires the kind of massive IT project which the public sector has a history of bungling on a world-class scale.
The unique plastic displays are produced in Plastic Logic's world-first commercial scale plastic electronics manufacturing facility in Dresden, Germany.
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Why is it that so few women have changed the world on a massive scale in the same way that men have?
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G8 can take a global lead both in making the world aware of the scale of the problem and in proposing ways to tackle them.
This is the UK's largest permanent street art project and the biggest urban arts festival in Europe, attracting the world's leading urban artists to converge and create a series of temporary and permanent street art installations and sculpture, including some of the world's largest scale outdoor paintings.
By finding a hero who rises from shacks and degradation, the film reflects a surprising new consensus that even as slums proliferate around the world at a greater scale than ever before, they could, with the right mix of policies, be the launching pads for upward mobility rather than dead-ends.
The Forbes 400 could help the other end of the scale: the world's one billion superpoor.
"Cairn India's Rajasthan asset is world class in terms of scale and cost, delivering strong and growing cash flow".
Indeed, far from reducing crime, prohibition has fostered gangsterism on a scale that the world has never seen before.
It was first used as a large-scale process during World War II for the recovery of uranium from its ores.
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The sheer, staggering scale of the world's energy demand places this issue as one of the central challenges of our era.
The project aims to create the world's first large scale wave energy farm by constructing a wave hub, or "socket", on the seabed.
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Given the stakes at hand in a world with no rookie wage scale, you would think that teams would become more judicious over time.
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Most airline services command only thin margins (catering is one example), but a company that provides them across the world can achieve economies of scale.
Another example from the medical device world, on a smaller scale: A Huthwaite-trained salesman set out to sell back braces to a doctor who was opposed to the use of braces.
"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.
The move from level three to level four on the WHO's six-level threat scale means the world body has determined the virus is capable of significant human-to-human transmission -- a major step toward a flu pandemic, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the agency's assistant director-general.
Those benefits from scale will likely be even more pronounced in the world of digital learning, as digital learning platforms can scale in unprecedented ways.
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Presper Eckert , co-creator of the world's first large-scale computer, known as the ENIAC.
And the patchwork of networks that run beneath the world's big cities lacks scale and is plagued with technical problems.
The arts centre in Cardiff Bay aims to provide a new world-class stage for full scale ballet, opera, musical theatre and dance.
And much like social media, the impact that direct marketing has had on our cultural landscape and business world has been on a global scale.
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