But their state-dominated economies need an overhaul, similar in nature if not in scale to that in eastern Europe.
Many of these tools and techniques, like the collaborative hiring decisions, will not scale in their current form as these companies scale.
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Facebook is unprecedented not only in its scale but also in its ability to blur boundaries between the real and virtual worlds.
However, costs tend to come down in 3D printing not due to scale, but by greater efficiencies being uncovered in production and distribution.
Speaking after a meeting with Hugh Orde on Tuesday, Mark Durkan said he believed the new chief constable was not in denial about the scale of what remained to be done.
He said that the chain, which has 577 stores in 12 European countries, had not suffered the same scale of problems in other markets.
Obviously, Sybase is not enough to make SAP entirely relevant in scope and scale (and it goes without saying that in this land of giants, Sybase was not large enough to survive on its own.) But it picks up a solid asset, with businesses in financial modelling and mobile databases that are essential for SAP to stay in the game.
Not on the scale seen in 2006, admittedly, but enough to take advantage of rising markets.
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).
For those who believe excessive risk-taking on Wall Street was at the heart of the global financial crisis, sweeping reform on a scale not seen in 80 years was the necessary remedy to insure that a similar financial meltdown does not occur any time soon.
But the Rif fell under nominal Spanish control and, even after independence in 1956, it had a dispensation to grow the crop but not to sell it in on a large scale.
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It is the only country in which men do not outscore women on the document scale, and is also the only country in which adults aged 46 to 55 outscore young people aged 16 to 25.
This has not happened in the past on a scale of the kind that Mrs.
Though she had managed to salvage her business by taking on microfinance lenders, she was not bringing in the revenue needed to scale LiSim up.
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The question is: Will rank insubordination on a scale arguably not seen in a military commander since MacArthur faded away nearly six decades ago be rewarded by still higher office?
These projects do not have to be overwhelmingly huge in scale either- those with Vital Voices often express that whether the assignment is big or small, the importance is in inspiring others and paying it forward.
"The cause of the disease may not be new, but the scale at which it is occurring has not been observed in recent years, " the WHO said in an email.
Setbacks on this scale have not been seen in the U.S. since the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, according to demographers.
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Economies of scale in banking are not an advantage in fund management.
Readers want fiction to plunge them into a fully imagined world, one that not only enthralls but also convinces in its scale and defining details.
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While large-scale desalination is not uncommon in those parts of the world where natural water resources are scarce -- such as Texas and Australia -- the UAE is by some margin, according to Iannelli, the industry's most active player.
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Despite official efforts to low-ball its significance, Ms. Rice's conclave is shaping up to be a gang-rape of a nation on a scale not seen since Munich in 1938, when the British and French allowed Hitler and Mussolini to have their violent way with Czechoslovakia.
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The airport was not placed in a state of full-scale alert at any time but the stranded plane remained at the end of the runway for over an hour forcing 12 flights due to land at Manchester to be diverted to Leeds, Liverpool and Birmingham Airports.
There have been few cross-border mergers, and these have not had much luck in capitalising on economies of scale or indeed on anything else.
The carbon capture and storage technology can strip carbon from fossil fuel exhaust gases and store it in rocks, but it is unproven at scale, trials are years behind schedule and it may not work in some areas of the world.
They are in almost all situations on the safe end of any scale that is not dominated by hollowed-out mattresses or federally insured bank accounts, and they belong in your portfolio.
And other service contractors not yet taken over may scale back their investment in Venezuela.
However, he added that this action would not take the form of large scale air strikes in the region.
But those actions probably will not be of the scale needed to help much in slowing the heating of the planet.
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