In 2007 Nassim Nicholas Taleb created a widely-spread meme and best-selling book on Black Swans, highly unexpected events that carry major scale and impact.
Looking back from 2040, the second thing people will see is that India was the first developing country to embrace on a major scale the knowledge economy.
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Mr. Blake derived a simple melody by playing a few dozen digits of pi using a C-major scale, with 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9 translated to the notes E, C, F, C, G, D and so on.
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Some are straightforward and play the same sort of major-scale-based melody but taken out to 10, 000 digits.
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"China's city and rural commercial banks don't have the scale of major banks and so need to offer higher returns to be able to pull customers away from their bigger competitors, " Mr. Ye said.
One measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, a major tremor in its own right.
They have to look inward, rapidly exploiting economies of scale and making major shifts in operational efficiency.
There has been considerable speculation in recent weeks about the level of preparedness in the UK for a major terrorist attack on the scale of the Bali bomb.
Without the Empire to fund major engineering projects and large scale infrastructure, many of the skills and techniques involved in monumental buildings and complex technologies were forgotten and lost.
The Association of American Publishers is suing Google over its plans to scan the contents of several major libraries, fearing large-scale copyright infringement.
However, the challenge posed by the North Sea structures - because of their heavier weight and the local climate - represents a major challenge on a totally different scale.
They rank the weekend storm as a 3 and "major" on a 1 to 5 scale.
While technology expands and reinforces the already global reach of pop stars, Hollywood films and network television shows, it also has a major impact on industries of a smaller scale.
The trouble is that a number of solar energy companies have major projects in the pipeline that seek to scale up their operations to commercial size.
The latter change is necessary before federal regulators can entertain large-scale mergers that reduce the ranks of major sector players.
Internet security has become a major concern for Internet users in China as the scale and nature of security threats continues to evolve.
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All eyes are now on the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, which is one of the major shareholders and will be crucial in tilting the scale to either side.
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The Berkshire town is at risk of flooding due to the raised position of the Kennet and Avon Canal and experienced major floods in 1947 and 1960, with smaller scale floods affecting the town more recently in 2000, 2003 and 2007.
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Once the major issues of the revenue split, the rookie scale, and the Salary Cap were agreed to and a deal was imminent in late July, there appeared to be a rush to tie up loose ends of the deal so that training camps could open, players could be paid, and games could be played.
"This is a major step forward in our pursuit to build molecular-scale electronic devices, " said Phaedon Avouris, lead researcher on the project.
And there is little prospect of the team losing a Test series these days, so a victory in a major tournament remains the only peak left for South Africa to scale.
The pattern and scale of destruction were similar in all China's major cities, Leong found.
Flooding, seen on a massive scale during Superstorm Sandy, did not appear to cause major problems.
The sheer scale of Spain's borrowing requirement will be a major test of the reawakened investor appetite for Spanish debt.
Tenth, we have launched the implementation of large scale infrastructure projects including having obtained the right to host major sporting events.
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The forecast said three to five of the hurricanes will be major storms ranked Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength.
Major investment firms have been setting aside billions of dollars for large scale acquisitions in single family housing since the downturn, with activity jumping in 2012 as analysts called a market bottom.
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The demand for larger-scale private and corporate jets has been such that the major aircraft manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, now offer modified versions of their passenger aircraft -- the Boeing BBJ (Boeing Business Jet) and Airbus CJ (Corporate Jet).
Both years saw major storms (F4 or F5 on the F0-F5 Enhanced Fujita scale) plow very long paths through densely populated territory.
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