But a disaster on this scale is unusual: occasional outages are more common.

但是这么大规模的灾难很少见：偶尔暂停服务倒是更为常见。

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Helping on a larger scale, however, is not as common.

但是在大的事件上帮助就不那么常见了。

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For all the reasons that have already been discussed, having a centralized, common, well-understood process is key to realizing economies of scale and eliminating waste.

基于上面所讨论到的所有原因，拥有一个集中的、共同的、理解良好的处理过程，是实现经济实惠和消除浪费的关键。

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Where they have worked best, financial mergers have profited from the simple economies of scale offered by a common information-technology system.

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For example, the distance between the centers of two black holes in galaxy clusters distant from each other and the gap between cell walls in a living organism differ on a vast scale, despite their sharing of common structures at the atomic level.

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Mountains are at the same time social and political arenas with a wide range of management arrangements, including private property, traditional common property regions, national scale parks and reserves, and international treaties, all embedded within a rapidly changing global economic context that can create tensions between local mountain residents and distant users of mountain resources.

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