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It doesn't have anything to do with the budget of the film. It has to do with the scope and scale of ambition, and the skill that people brought to it to realize that ambition.

I think the natural foods industry has been a tremendous success as a cottage industry, and I think the larger players now are needing to take it to the next level and get the economies of scale that are due to major mainstream companies.

I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.

It is a big game in a sense of being a TV game that's big for our conferences, but first we have a league game that's huge. Then we'll be on a national scale and it will give people a chance to see us again and for us to put our best foot forward.

It gives us immediate scale in the online world.

It can happen. But based on our current situation, local scale and large scale, probabilities of recovery are much lower this year.

I think it's an ominous sign. Whenever there's an attack of this scale going on in London -- it's not just a British thing, it's a U.S. thing too, because most of the time when al Qaeda strikes, it tends to strike in multiple, simultaneous attacks.

We now have a very small window in which to stop this crisis turning into a catastrophe. The implications of failing to step up the aid effort now will not just be starvation, it could also bring large scale conflict to the region. It's not too late to avert the worst of this, but it soon will be.

We now have the technology to fish down below 2km, something that has been brought in on a large scale in the North Atlantic in the past 15 years.

To make it all work was a challenge. It was one of the most intensive civil engineering projects, in terms of residential housing, that I've ever been involved with. ... But it was intentional on our part, to create a human scale and to be environmentally sensitive. At the end of the day, it will be a great neighborhood where people really want to live.

Today, there is a large scale corruption in Gujarat.

We have the new sliding scale in place in the event of another increase in gas prices,

You have telephone operators girding themselves to take on the cable operators, and at this point there's no way they can take advantage of scale unless they invest in their networks.

We are in the midst of a tremendous global revolution, ... and the consequences are on a scale that are hitherto unprecedented.

We don?t have scale to compete at a national level. I think our investor base will appreciate this.

The Asian situation has been a real driver and should continue into 1999, as companies scale back their growth plans,

The astronomical scale of the amount of benefit money being lost through fraud and error is vividly brought home to taxpayers by the astonishing fact that the figures are rounded to the nearest half-a-billion pounds.

The announcement by Neiman Marcus...makes us as concerned as we have ever been that this Christmas will be extremely lackluster. It appears now the high-end consumer is beginning to scale back their purchases, which does not bode well for the holiday season. This type of thing is clearly going to have an impact on other high-end retailers.

Virtually all of the rating changes at the higher end of the rating scale have been accompanied by one or both of these factors.

We're waiting to get more information from Canada, at which point we could be able to scale back, ... We just need that information.

We have to identify the hot spots ? highways, factories, places where young men gather ? and scale up prevention efforts.

We know that there has been some excellent work by governments and nongovernmental organizations in the wake of the tsunami -- the speed and scale of the response meant that lives were saved and many predicted outbreaks of epidemics were contained -- but it is not enough.

We could have had a lot more wind damage, certainly. And the rain, we ended up on the low end of the scale of what we could have gotten, around 2 inches around the state. We managed to avoid the worst-case scenario.

The 9/11 strikes left an indelible impact on our minds, but in relative terms, the scale of casualties actually wasn't all that high.

The advent of VLSI (very large scale integration) technology has reduced cost and increased the capabilities of the sensors.

You can always file a lawsuit. The challenge is to make sure that the full scale of the public's right to compensation is protected.

You just can't imagine the scale of this disaster or this happening to your own.

You have to erect a fence and say, ''Okay, scale this.''

That's totally ridiculous, ... I would say on a scale of 1 to 100 that had zero to do with it. The organization has moved on.

We need U.S. energy companies that have the scale and financial strength to make investments, undertake the risk and develop the new technologies.

We need the money now or we will be forced to scale down food deliveries. So far, we have been operating on reserves, and borrowing ... and the pipeline is drying up.

Migratory birds are the main distributors on the international scale and there is no way to stop them. Locally, migratory fowl and the trade in live and recently dead poultry keep it in circulation, too.

We can see that the scale of change and the pace of change is now in another group of 15 to 25 countries, which are in the process of trying to reach the level of the modern industrial democracies.

We're a generation away from those guys, and we have a different economic scale to live up to. Our generation is lucky if we have jobs that we like and people that we can relate to.

We continue to build out our enterprise sales and services organization to make new customer wins, demonstrate the business benefits of our technology and achieve further deployments. Our strategy to focus on large multinational accounts and work toward large scale deployments is beginning to pay dividends.

We have to think about the people first. Then we can think about the business. We're dealing with a scale of disaster we've never seen before (in the casino industry). We're literally at square one right now.

We believe there are a lot of economies of scale that states benefit from in sharing the resource.

We must turn the country around to face its citizens. The scale of the repair will be so great that Poland will become a new republic.

We are trying to assist the army and government to scale up so they can receive these new people.

We had to scale back down to about 30 interns this year.

We had tried to scale back our offense and just keep things really simple, but we were so thin.

We're already enjoying the benefits of the greater scope and scale that Vodafone gives us when we're purchasing so we're buying a lot of infrastructure, a lot of handsets.

Well all kinds of movies that you wouldn't expect that I'd want to do, both bigger scale and smaller scale than the ones I've done.

That was pretty high on the Richter scale ? I'd say it's a nine as far as how it impacted the draft. It definitely affects what the top teams are doing. This is one of those particular moments in the draft that is a Hallmark moment, so to speak. It rearranges things pretty strongly.

The fact that people are dying should be catalyst enough to scale up relief efforts and put pressure on aid agencies.

There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

We decided to go out with a commercial model relatively quickly, where we could start bringing on large customers and have them run large compute jobs so we could test the scale and flexibility of the Sun Grid.

We decided to scale down our demands to a sizeable extent due to the hardships being faced by the people.

There are economies of scale you can enjoy as an owner when you have a large portfolio of assets as Blackstone has now. At some point you may see Blackstone doing an IPO of the portfolio.

There are elements to the story that, if handled well, can help improve the way the public perceives the press. The other thing is that the press is doing a bunch of things that are new. They are reading e-mails, saying, 'I am looking for my nephew ... so-and-so, if you can hear me, please call.' That's community journalism on a national scale and I think that will go a long way to demonstrate that the press is doing more than just thrill seeking.

There are no grounds for concern, ... The Baltic Sea pipeline is a European scale project that is not directed against anybody and that should be open to later participation by third parties.

We're approaching the use of biometrics very, very cautiously, ... We feel that the technology is not even close to the accuracy being claimed by some of these companies. As such, there will be thousands of false negatives and false positives when you scale up the millions of travelers.

We're about to scale something now that couldn't have been scaled before.

We developed GbX E-series with the high-performance systems designer in mind. Now, designers can scale their existing backplane platforms to much higher data rates using a drop-in replacement module without re-spinning their backplane design. This option represents a cost savings and quicker time-to-market for our customers.

This win is so exciting to be a part of. With all the team's ties to Mexico, this is just on another scale in terms of a big win. The car was perfect all day, and for this team it's very, very special to win here. I couldn't be happier for Luis. It's one thing to win big races, but another to win big races in your backyard, and he did that today. I couldn't be more proud of him.

We have a situation ... with the police facing attempted murder and police facing violence which is on a scale that we haven't seen for many years,

We're having to scale back on some jobs. We have a finite amount of money. We'll make it go as far as we can.

We're looking to scale logs, weigh logs, go step-by-step.

The only entity in the United States that has the personnel, the equipment, the training and the logistical capacity to lend support to the National Guard and other state entities in an emergency of this scale is the Department of Defense.

This scale of engagement demonstrates Nine Systems leadership in the specialized market for streaming media management and delivery services. In a rapidly growing market, they are repeatedly demonstrating an ability to work with the leaders in broadband content and provide a key set of solutions that are focused on driving successful business results.

We are continually assessing what the impacts are, and the decision to run a campaign or not and/or the scale of that campaign will depend on that assessment. If the story tends to blow over quickly, we may simply have the same marketing message that we already have on the books. If there's an impact on the business, we might assess that situation differently.

We are looking at many of these distressed (auto parts companies) that have some kind of proprietary technology and some scale of size.

We produce a lot of soy, but none of us are on the scale of the Brazilian growers.

We are not forecasting a recession, but there is some truth to the notion that negative news can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. If companies expect demand to slacken, they scale back production. And if consumers expect doom and gloom, they scale back spending. That's just the way it works.

We are scaling it back. It's going to go off but not on the scale of $20,000.

We gave them some points, but on a scale of one to 10 we played a nine,

We don't know exactly the scale of the damage. Afghan National Army troops are on the ground helping villagers,

The fact that he's giving bonuses is not surprising. But the scale is quite amazing.

The fact that they don't charge commission based on a percentage scale does not, in our view, enable them to operate outside the act.

Longing on a large scale makes history.

With 64 games overall, and 100,000 spectators for each and every game, we will reach millions on a scale of incredible magnitude.

With a coordinator we can get off the ground and really start working on a larger scale to do what we can in the community to make it a better place,

While next generation HD players are in final assembly, and movies are being mastered, the AACS architects are ensuring consumers can enjoy the HD picture, sound and robust portability potential of AACS without any further delays. Much more than just HD movies, AACS delivers new consumer interactivity, portability and feature enhancement after purchase on a scale like no other consumer digital entertainment system can. AACS represents a cross-industry team of chip, consumer electronics, PC designers and content creators, all dedicated to enriching the consumer's home and portable entertainment experience.

We raised this money to help us scale our business as demand started to be heightened. We wanted to be in a very good position to grow the company more rapidly.

There has been consolidation throughout the country in the last several years into companies that do have the economies of scale to manage these assets.

We would note that given the size of GM, there are relatively few players that could pull such a deal off. Consequently, betting on a takeover of this scale seems to us to be more like gambling than investing.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom

To be straight, I was kind of a dork, and in order to fulfill the creative fires burning inside me, I participated vigorously as a Civil War re-enactor through most of my teenage years, traveling across the country to participate in large scale reenactments - grandiose plays enacted by over weight history buffs and war enthusiasts alike.

We've collaborated on things in the past, of course, but not on as big a scale as this.

We want to provide an educational model where students can operate on a smaller scale and not fall between the cracks. We want to make sure the teachers know the students on a deeper level, their passions and the things they want to pursue in the future. That makes education relevant for them.

We want to scale this across the community of users in a systematic approach to ensure we keep in mind the users' needs and requirements.

With this initiative, California has taken a major step toward energy independence. This long-term, visionary policy will save ratepayers money, create high-paying jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. The CPUC should be congratulated in creating a decade-long initiative that will drive the US solar industry to invest in technological innovation and scale up manufacturing. California will be a leader in the next great high-tech growth industry - solar energy.

We're starting to see signs of life. The question is how quick the rest of the industry can scale down its infrastructure to make it viable.

To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match.

When we entered the market, we bet on sophisticated technology to solve the complexity of the search marketplace, and we bet right. The marketplace continues to get more and more complex, and we are the only firm with the technology to scale to the needs of marketers.

We're going to the end of the lines and working in. There's still design to be done, but if folks aren't interested, we'll scale the project back.

There is no question that more can be done to mend the gap that so often triggers social unrest when economic growth on a national scale leaves the poor and disadvantaged behind.

With the increased scale of the combined company, we can reduce overall product costs and provide more innovative products at more competitive prices.

Working with Wood County Schools is nothing new, but working on this scale is certainly new to us and something to be excited about. This is a win for DuPont, it is a win for the students, and we view this as a very positive and exciting development and partnership.

What looks like swindling with a petty sum, Is on a grand and speculative scale Honest enough, so it be large enough.

We believe this project is the first to provide pricing data on a very short time scale - approximately every five minutes - and the first to include the true costs of transmission and distribution within that price.

When we got within a couple miles to the beach, there was nothing resembling a house; there was only rubble. To see the scale of devastation in person was just unbelievable.

We can continue providing these services on a much larger scale with a well-rounded, seasoned management team, and grow together into the next decade.

What has the federal government been doing all these years to prepare for a disaster striking a major American city, ... With all the bureaucratic federal agencies, super czars and homeland preparedness, there seems to be no national or regional master plan to evacuate people, bring in relief and adequately deal with a large scale emergency of this nature. Is there a plan in place for how to deal with the profiteers when the resettling and rebuilding begins? Is there a plan to freeze oil prices?

We're going to have bookend events with the weather, because it was perfect the first year here in '99. I don't want to jinx it, but if the last two years were 2 or 3 on a scale of 1 to 10, we're probably looking at an 8 or 9.

We are promoting the opportunity for healthy living in a manner and scale unseen before.

The people who carry out suicide bombings are not martyrs, they're war criminals, and so are the people who help plan such attacks. The scale and systematic nature of these attacks sets them apart from other abuses committed in times of conflict. They clearly fall under the category of crimes against humanity.

There are some economies of scale that can be eked out primarily in people costs. But the real payoff is too far into the future.

We believe that our move into this state of the art trading facility will allow us to further our strategic plan of becoming a scale player within the market making and execution services industry.

We are pleased to be able to align our shareholders with the well-diversified, high-quality portfolio of Health Care Property Investors. The scale and breadth of the combined companies will better serve our investors and customers.