Imagine a scale from 1-10 with 10 being the worst reality you can imagine.
The UK was moved down one step on the scale from Aaa to Aa1.
Social organizations scale from small parties of a few adventurers to player nations inhabited by thousands.
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But this gap is bound to grow as American firms harvest the economies of scale from their recent mergers.
As they do not now have global networks, economies of scale from using Allied's distribution system would be lower.
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For sovereign lending, there is a smooth scale from 0% to 8%.
Ten experienced classical musicians marked each performance on eight measures, including melody, tempo and emotional content, on a scale from 0 to 100.
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On a scale from 1 to 5, with 5 being the most risky, the U.S ranks like most of Western Europe, at No. 2.
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This measured, among other things, feelings of guilt on a scale from one (very slightly guilty or not at all) to five (extremely guilty).
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The LTE slice of the market is now facing hyper-competition totally out of scale from what we witnessed with early W-CDMA launches a decade ago.
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They range in scale from 1, 200 college kids in Los Angeles, California, to a tiny battered church in the middle of Africa's largest slum.
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Once the service is delivered and paid for, users rate the sellers on a scale from one (lowest) to five (highest) and post comments about them.
They require systems that can scale from a two-person clinic with no IT infrastructure (other than an Internet connection) to a large urban hospital and everything in between.
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Meanwhile Fiat Auto, which will remain in the holding company, will be free to gain scale from mergers or partnerships with other car firms and to raise capital.
The structural resilience of the EU as a system has been very low (1 on a scale from 1 to 5) since November 2010 and this is certainly not a good omen.
The other two are still talking about using a numerical score, which will be a new scale from 500 to 900 where the scale we know with Fair Isaac is 350 to 850.
My second was to wonder exactly how much contrition he wanted, on a scale from Nixonian modified hangout to a full Jimmy Swaggart, from something suitable for family viewing to a blushing Playboy-channel disclosure.
When used to process unclassified information, sharing cloud computing resources can nominally provide the operational advantages of a private cloud with a cost closer to that of a public cloud due to the expected economies of scale from combined user communities.
"This meant that the slates which were already being exported on a smaller scale from Blaenau Ffestiniog, could be loaded onto much bigger ocean-going ships inside a sheltered harbour... and of course in 1836 the railway is bringing slates down, " he said.
The second capability on display at the Duracell Powermat stand at Mobile World Congress 2013 is a true breakthrough in "brawn" for the wireless charging industry: Wireless Charging Spots that can scale from powering smartphones, through tablets and all the way to ultrabooks.
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To compare alien planets, Dr. Mendez at the Planetary Habitability Laboratory and his colleagues are creating an Earth Similarity Index that ranks worlds by their resemblance to our own planet, on a scale from zero to one, based on their mass, radius, density and surface temperature.
Barry Schwartz, a blogger for search marketing site Search Engine Roundtable, says that even though his pagerank dropped from seven to four on a scale from one to 10, he hasn't seen a falloff in traffic from Google searches or even a drop in his site's placement in Google's search results.
Transparency International's corruption-perceptions index suggests that corruption is rife: in 2010, on a scale from one (the worst) to ten, Western Europe's five most populous countries received an average score of 6.5, whereas the three most populous countries in the Middle East averaged 3.2 (Turkey scored 4.4, Egypt 3.1 and Iran 2.2).
From 1 April, the friends and family test will be on a six-point scale - from "extremely likely" to recommend the service to "extremely unlikely".
These players benefit from economies of scale and financing from land conversion.
How else to explain the endless Treasury rally and the full-scale retreat from equities?
In Cascalog, a developer can run ad-hoc queries at scale interactively from a prompt.
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