Mr Greenspan has expressed anxiety in the past about the risks of cutting taxes on such a large scale at a time of budgetary pressure.
"If one is concerned about the future of life on a biological time scale, it's relevant to have communities away from the Earth, " Rees notes.
As a recent study confirms, on a much longer time scale, genes are even at the mercy of culture.
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This was the first time we had done a broadcast on this kind of scale and we had no idea if anyone would be in the least bit interested!
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If the foreigners plan to underprice the locals by operating on a larger scale, it will take a long time and a lot of investment in a shrinking market.
What makes this time different, on a global scale, however, is the reality of floating exchange rates.
That's an impressive total at a time when many athletic departments saw fundraising scale back considerably on account of the recession.
It threatens to re-ignite violence on a much wider scale while, at the same time, discrediting the whole idea of negotiation and compromise.
The outcome from the workshop should help ensure consistently comparable quality control of selected chemical data collected on a global scale and over time.
The return of share repurchases on a grand scale (doubtless at a time when they are far more expensive than today) will be a sign that defrosting is giving way to overheating.
Spending more time in school did reduce the probability of a teenage pregnancy, but on a much smaller scale than the effect of a pregnant sister.
On a scale of 1 to 100, the top forecaster was correct 68 percent of the time and the bottom guru was correct only 22 percent of the time.
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia now are working on a scale they call the "dwell time index" to calculate how much time a planet has orbited in a habitable zone, compared with the time it took life to evolve on Earth.
Single-use zoning and planning for different functions was thought to be efficient, but we now know that most office buildings are grossly underoccupied, with only 30% to 40% of their workspace used in a typical work day, never mind the gross inefficiencies of time and energy spent on large scale mass commuting.
With Greece and its private creditors still negotiating the scale of haircuts to be imposed on bondholders, this may have been too delicate a time for leaders to discuss Greece.
But the venture world has learned some hard lessons on the difficulty of building energy businesses: they face science risk, often take a long time to scale and can be capital intensive.
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Although he shows enthusiasm for the battery project, Gambarota, who now spends much of his time developing micro wind turbines, is sceptical about the future of human-power on a mass-scale.
The first minister hit back saying his government would provide a Scottish solution to the "extraordinary" situation that would be implemented on exactly the same time scale as the implementation of the hike in tuition fees south of the border.
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