These announcements complimented a large-scale expansion of the "Power Up" program, which creates and staffs technology centers that poor children can use to improve their understanding and use of computers, the Internet and educational software.
Internationally, Harley is targeting large scale expansion in emerging markets such as Brazil and India, and these are the only two countries where the company has set up an assembly plant outside the U.S. Its motorcycles segment has performed exceptionally well in Latin America and Asia in the last few years.
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Fed lending and asset purchases on such a massive scale caused equal expansion of its liabilities, most importantly the reserve deposits of commercial banks and thrifts.
Although the total amount of new space coming on stream is less than it was a decade ago, the scale of the expansion in town centres is almost as great.
Not so Hitachi, which has only gone so far as to scale back its planned expansion by 20%.
The other concern we have (despite what management has indicated in calls) is when diseconomies of scale occur with further fleet expansion.
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The merger was designed, in Sir Iain Vallance's words, to create "one of the first great companies of the 21st century", which would deliver expansion on a global scale.
Next year, profits will drop as a result of large-scale spending and borrowing to finance expansion, but they should rise substantially in 2002, according to projections made by Jardine Fleming Philippines.
While presently only 0.03 TW of energy was extracted from wind in 2008, and there is room for a considerable expansion of this technology with relatively insignificant effects on the climate, any future expansion on a global scale must take account that the potential for extraction of wind energy is finite according to the nature of the Earth system.
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Miranda ranks high among Venezuelan states in agricultural and pastoral production, and government irrigation projects have resulted in the expansion of its large-scale farming and in the diversification of its agriculture.
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Strengthening the Creative Industries in Five ACP Countries Through Employment and Trade Expansion is the first large-scale poverty-reduction initiative targeting the creative industries in developing countries.
On October 28th Fortescue reversed its long-standing public optimism and announced it would curtail expansion, a huge blow given the importance of scale in efficient mining of iron ore.
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On Thursday, the Japanese central bank announced a massive expansion to the country's money supply, on a scale that has caught everyone by surprise.
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Now on the scale of the next century, the projections are suggesting that, between the ice and thermal expansion of the ocean, that we're likely to see upwards of a meter of sea level rise.
By enabling applications to both scale in capacity and provide non-stop availability, server-farms have played a major role in the rapid expansion of Web-based computing.
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