Texmaco improved quality, as the Japanese had earlier done, but on an economy of scale.

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Indeed, Salesforce.com exhibits the opposite of an economy of scale.

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Our nation deserves better choices than, on one hand, accepting the catastrophic damage caused by a failure like Lehman Brothers, or on the other hand being forced to pour billions of taxpayer dollars into an institution like AIG to protect the economy against that scale of damage.

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Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over a country with a third-rate army, ordered an industrial transformation of the American economy on a scale that seemed simply out of reach, with the focused, urgent aim of defeating the Nazis.

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Or rather, after an aberrant half century of industrial-scale McDonaldization of the global economy, the local food industry is actually reclaiming the bellwether status it has always had in history.

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If the deal does go through, the British economy would certainly feel the effects of an injection of capital on such a scale.

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The scale of Spanish sales decline and line disconnections paints a picture of an economy in a free fall.

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When an economy is in the doldrums, the ability to squeeze more cash out of a business on that scale is a rare and precious thing.

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We want to have an impact on the economy of Detroit, but we also want to show that an enterprising, smart company can be on a national scale here, and ultimately, encourage others to join us.

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