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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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.
"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.
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.
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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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.
One measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, a major tremor in its own right.
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.
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.
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).
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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Perhaps too heavily influenced by the realities of conducting two large-scale stability operations, the 2005 and 2010 QDRs downplayed the two-major-contingency metric.
The Association of American Publishers is suing Google over its plans to scan the contents of several major libraries, fearing large-scale copyright infringement.
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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Eight student political societies - including all the major parties - had invited undergraduate and postgraduate students to vote in what was billed as the first large-scale poll of Scottish university students on the country's future.
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.
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 sheer scale of Spain's borrowing requirement will be a major test of the reawakened investor appetite for Spanish debt.
Both years saw major storms (F4 or F5 on the F0-F5 Enhanced Fujita scale) plow very long paths through densely populated territory.
But manufacturers believe that as the scale of the industry increases and the technology improves, a major tipping point will come within the next decade: cost superiority.
In a report released Tuesday, CSU's Tropical Meteorology Project (TMP) forecast half of those hurricanes will develop into major hurricanes ranked as Category 3 or higher on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength.
They rank the weekend storm as a 3 and "major" on a 1 to 5 scale.
Elected in 1987, Mr Davis was quick to scale the ministerial ladder - although he never made it into John Major's cabinet.
Sky Harbor's healthful dining options scored well on the annual Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine airport-food scale, which measures the percentage of eateries with healthy offerings at major airports.
While TXU will scale back its coal facilities, coal will still be a major part of the state's energy future, at least for the next several years.
It's a major-key sound, but unlike our major keys, which have a half step between the third and fourth tones, the Lydian scale has a whole step there, and the half step between steps four and five.
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As well as the small-scale schemes, Dumfries and Galloway Council is also being consulted on plans for a major wind farm development at Kilgallioch in Wigtownshire.
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The major hotel chain that figures out a way to implement "anytime check-in" on a mass scale will become the new Hilton.
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