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RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.

RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.He held at court a rank so high That other noblemen asked why."Because," 'twas answered, "others lack His skill to scratch the royal back." --Aramis Jukes

Real estate prices are so high and people of the low-income pay scale desperately need those public housing units. If they're proceeding cautiously because they do want to serve the population they serve, that's a good thing.

The old business model was that bigger plants gained economies of scale -- the more cars you made, the more profitable you became. The new buzz word is flexibility. The successful manufacturers will be the ones that can react quickly and make subtle changes. ... That's something the imports have perfected, but Ford is really grappling with.

Property Specification Language (PSL) gives designers an elegant way to work with the intricate software inherent in very large scale integration that goes well beyond the limits of natural design languages based on words. It also increases confidence that chip and system designs are correct before fabrication. The PSL version in IEEE 1850 is unique in that it supports formal specification and verification of design intent across all major hardware description languages.

After the bubble, the whole sector really started to crash and burn. But just like there was excess on the upside, there was excess on the downside, and what we're seeing now is that there are some real companies addressing very large markets that are now, for the first time, reaching scale and beginning to get to profitability.

Some things they see here are things they can't see on a smaller scale at their own school.

express themselves clearly on the scale and speed of change over the next five years.

Without a coherent U.S. aviation policy that reverses the bias against airline size and removes the barriers that prevent us from constructive consolidation, U.S. carriers will be unable to compete on a global scale and we risk being marginalized,

Both Springsteen and Michael Jackson, who had these huge productions, could always scale them back down to just a song and a melody. All of that influences me. I also try to be a fictional writer, and sometimes I get close, but the things that resonate the most with me - and with everyone else - is what's real.

But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow.

but on an even greater scale and with even more dramatic consequences.

We are excited about the synergies and strategic benefits of this acquisition, including the improved reach into Asia and the broadening of our offering with less-complex, higher-turn products in the mixed-signal and structured digital business. This acquisition expands our market and scale in both mixed-signal and structured digital products. In addition, the peripheral imaging sensor products included in the acquisition enhance our core competencies while driving profitable growth.

We are excited at the prospect of doubling everyone's donation. Now, when someone gives enough to purchase one bottle of water, we'll be able to make it two bottles of water. Instead of giving one hot meal, we'll be able to make it two hot meals. The scale of what we'll be able to do as a community is gigantic.

We wanted to get it as close to scale as possible. I did get a lot of the information off the Internet.

Saddam Hussein is not the only autocrat in the world to possess arms of mass destruction of a chemical, bacteriological or a radioactive type. He's not the only one to have worked actively on a nuclear program, but he is the only one to have used those weapons on a large scale over a long history of aggression, military aggression, attacking his neighbors and his own people.

The month of September, so far, has not been a good month. There has been quite an increase in both the number and the scale of attacks.

Activity levels held up quite strongly over the final weeks of 2005 compared to previous years. The scale of new buyer registrations over the next few weeks will be an important indication of what sort of year we can expect for the market.

Space, time, matter, energy and biological life may be the result of a Source Field that is conscious and alive in its own unique way - on a scale far too vast for the finite mind to fathom.

Developers are in a position, as in the hotel industry, to enjoy economies of scale by investing in a variety of products.

Once we had made the strategic decision to sell PacifiCorp, which changes significantly the shape and scale of the group, it was necessary to review our management, operating and cost structures for the continuing businesses,

Some people weigh it in grains with a gun powder scale. I have a scale that does gramsthe biggest piece was a two gram piece, looking at it, it's no bigger that the size of a bb.

Collaboration to me is... my favorite collaboration in the theatre is the collaboration between the actors and the audience because it's just that thing that happens when the only thing left that is left on the human scale is that human beings come to look at other human beings act out stories.

I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes. I used to buy a Ferragamo or Louis Vuitton bag every job that I got. Now I have a child, and we pay for private school, so I've had to scale back!

Bank of America has now become a scale player in credit cards. The more accounts and balances you can spread over your essentially fixed-cost process system, the better the economics get.

A union shop here in the city is usually a quality shop. We have very high education levels with the guys on the service side ... part of their pay scale is actually tied to how many hours of training they do each year.

A whole generation has never known a world free of HIV and Aids, yet the magnitude of the problem dwarfs the scale of the response so far.

Bag Borrow or Steal was first-to-market with the concept of borrowing luxury products and is leading a revolution in the way consumers shop for designer goods. Over the past two years we have attracted thousands of members and in turn gained valuable insight into consumer attitudes and desires about borrowing designer goods online. At the same time we focused diligently on building a business that can scale rapidly and support our future plans. Now with market leadership established, a solid organization in place, and a new round of financing, we are well positioned for continued growth and expansion.

As an investor, I would love to see them increase the scale of this business. They've got the breadth and depth of management to run a bigger enterprise. The challenge is finding a market that meets their standards.

Americans do feel very connected to a wide- scale disaster like this, and they're inspired to do something.

Almost all ring deaths are preventable. When a guy starts to take a beating, stop the fight. Put it on a scale and tell me which is more important: a thrilling, gruesome fight or a person's life?

Pull out the measuring cup and the scale once or twice just for practice. You don't have to do it all the time, but you see what it actually looks like. If you don't want to do that, use some of the visuals just to give you an eyeball, like 3 ounces (of meat) looks like a deck of cards. You don't have to be exact, but you want to have a clue.

Scale is important to get the right ratio of research and development over sales.

Scale matters and global change is the sum of the actions that take place on national, regional and local levels.

Scale matters, to get the right ratio of R&D over sales.

Schools are trying to compete for those students, not just on academics alone, but the whole package they can offer those students. They are competing on a much different scale then they were 10 years ago.

Salesforce.com is selling an on-demand model that gives customers the ability to roll out a CRM deployment quickly and easily and then scale that deployment either up or down to meet their business needs. So far, small and midsize businesses have taken the best advantage of that, but we are starting to see larger companies that are seriously evaluating an on-demand model.

Samasource creates jobs in regions where more traditional forms of employment in low-income economies, such as manufacturing, are difficult to scale because of poor infrastructure. In a village in Rukka, India, for example, our small data entry partner employs over 60 people doing various types of Internet research for Samasource.

People running companies with $10 million or $15 million or $30 million in sales, while they are probably pillars of the communities and very successful, the businesses they're running don't have the scale to attract the attention of a company doing $5 billion in revenue.

Our customers will benefit from a partner with the scale and scope to design, build and manage increasingly converged networks that deliver the most advanced communications services to the market. That is what this combination will deliver with an unparalleled focus on execution, innovation and service for our customers. Serge and I will work hard with our leadership team to draw upon the key strengths and common culture of technical excellence within each company to uniquely position the combined company for success, growth and value creation from next-generation networking and services.

Our concern is that human industrialization could be a trigger for extreme climate changes on a global scale in the future.

Focus on melody, tone and vibrato. I've never been a guitarist that practices scales. I couldn't tell you what scale I'm playing.

Folks at the top of the income scale definitely notice when they're paying $3.50 a gallon for gasoline. But for them, that doesn't necessarily mean they are going to have to cut back elsewhere, ... Younger families have lower incomes.

Enterprises tend to have a lot of scale issues.

There's still significant economies of scale to be had. It's going to help to buoy the price of many utility shares because there will be a natural wave of speculation as to who will be next.

There's nothing worse than to be watching your calories and exercising, but the scale just doesn't budge, ... You just feel like, 'My efforts are for naught.' That's when people tend to give up.

There's no denial that our bilateral trade has developed so fast and to such a large scale it is inevitable that we may have some friction,

There's not a huge rally building now, but we've seen a little pattern in the past few weeks of rally, scale back, and then continue, and we may see that again,

There's going to be advantages of scale and if you can't compete on that, you're going to get left out of some areas, ... You could see some of these smaller guys get muscled out of some of the markets and actually lose market share.

We have shown that there have been large fluctuations in water availability on a decadal to centennial time scale and that these changes occurred due to natural oscillations in climate.

We think these things can get to the world in scale in 2007.

While Foster's scale and efficiency sees us better placed than anyone from a production perspective, the (Australian) market is struggling to absorb the huge volumes of wine that are discounting and squeezing sales margins.

With all these factors in play, scale becomes important in order to compete with these large marketplaces.

Without timely and relevant information on quality and cost, we're flying blind. The technology and scale to deliver that information is now in place. With this recognition and selection by AQA, we look forward to joining the public-private partnership and creating an unprecedented resource with value for all Arizonans.

To scale up vet services is a pretty tall order. They haven't had the level of investment they should have had during the last three or four decades. And you can't suddenly turn a switch to get vet services working well. You have got to train the vets. You have to build the systems.

This transaction is a major development in our global pest control strategy and significantly improves our scale and opportunity in this attractive market.

This really represents conservation in the 21st century. To conserve globally important natural habitat worldwide on a scale that will be meaningful, we have to contemplate human use." ()

We believe our market leadership in the SIEM market is due to the differences in our Enterprise Security Management software's architecture as compared to competitors. Our architecture includes advanced data collection capabilities, as well as broad device support and vendor neutrality. This enables us to scale to meet the needs of the largest enterprises and most demanding government agencies.

This shake-up of the personal income tax scale would boost incentives for lower-income earners to participate in the workforce. It would be of greatest benefit to low- and middle-income families.

The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.

This doesn't need a vacuum but it does need a moisture barrier and that can be expensive. The biggest barrier to large scale production is simply cost. It costs very little to make a light bulb today.

This business has opportunity for scale and growth, which requires more depth and breadth on the management team.

This contract, if approved, puts them on the same wage scale that the other employees in town are paid from. We are pleased. This has been such a pressing matter, one of the top priorities for the town. It?s taken hours and hours between all of us to get this done.

This deal strengthens Ericsson in a number of areas. Marconi just did not have the scale to continue as an independent business, but they are well-known for solid products, very good R&D, and technical expertise.

This deal would really vault Supervalu into the big time. It will significantly increase the scale of Supervalu.

This gives Merrill an established brokerage force, and since the brokerage business is a scale business, getting bigger makes sense.

The weapons addiction of all our political leaders ... has the same characteristics as drug addiction. It is enormously costly, very dangerous, provokes ugly violence, and is self-perpetuating -- all on a scale far greater than drug addicton.

This is a disaster of enormous scale and we have to understand that,

This is the day we pointed to. It's optimistic. It's enthusiastic. It's exciting. Really, on a scale of 1-10 of expectations, it's past a 10. It's just great, just wonderful.

This is about positional adjustments so the salary scale is competitive.

They were exact scale models. If they got approved, you could get a patent for it.

A fireplace is a very popular architectural element. It can set the scale and mood within the room.

A disaster of this magnitude ... has never happened on this scale in U.S. history.

Your proposal to broaden the scale of debt swaps would help provide debt relief and release additional funds for financing sustainable activities that are key to achieving the Millennium Development Goals,

You need scale that is just immense in order to compete in this area.

This is at a scale that is really shocking. There is a certain kind of arrogance that in the past you might not have had. They were so supremely confident that there didn't seem to be any kind of moral compass here.

This is a terrific transaction that is the right thing to do for both the Time Warner Book Group and our shareholders. With its record-breaking performance in 2005, the Book Group is at the top of its game. To build on this success, however, it needs the scale and other advantages that come from being part of a larger, more global book publisher. This transaction also underscores our commitment to a strategy of managing closely related, industry-leading businesses to maximize shareholder returns. We wish our Time Warner Book Group colleagues continued success and the best of luck at their new home.

This is an industry where size and scale matter.

This is not such a watershed moment for Microsoft, but another step in a process that's been years in the making to get the right devices and the right partnerships out there and demonstrate to the market that this is a viable platform for these types of large scale projects. Typically what you do see in situations like this is that success breeds success.

This is not the kind of investment they can keep on going, given the sheer scale of it and concerns about high oil prices and their impact on the global economy and corporate earnings.

This isn't about assembling Lego blocks but rather about building a backbone that can scale and that can allow others to build on top of it.

In light of the great financial challenges of presenting the 2006 festival on the grand scale everyone is accustomed to, we simply could not have produced Jazz Fest without... Shell, who becomes the festival's first-ever presenting sponsor.

In logistics, big is beautiful. Scale is very important particularly where you've got infrastructure assets. So for us, it's about having the footprint across as many countries as possible. But it's also about having the scale to reduce processes and have a cost effective operation.

I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

I'm not against nightclubs. The question is, is this the right place for a club the scale of this one?

I'm not at all frightened, ... We are big enough now -- we now have the scale from this merger to compete.

In Ericsson, we have found a partner that has the scale and global reach to take our equipment business forward in a way that we would not have been able to do alone.

I never found the questions easy to answer, and the manner in which the country argued with itself seemed wholly inadequate to the scale of what we were about to get into. I first went to Iraq, and then kept going back, because I wanted to see past the abstractions to what the war meant in people's lives.

I'm using kites because I like drawing and making installations. Kites allow me to translate my drawn images on to a large scale and be performed in the sky.

I'm way down the scale in terms of technical ability, ... But my emotional connection is very apparent. A lot of jazz is very internalized, and sometimes it's more about the passion you put into it. It's a really subjective thing.

If I were to place the earth upon a scale and balance it with a single copper coin; and if I were to become so great that I could not be contained, and if I were to control and lead all; and if I were to possess so much power within my mind that I could cause others to do my bidding - so what?

I'm from Dallas, so I totally get the whole thing. I understand the history and on how big of a scale 'Dallas' was and still is.

I have two children who are daughters, so female issues have always registered high on my scale of awareness.

I had no idea of the scale of the ruins. The scale was humongous, mind-boggling. There are hundreds of buildings.

I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school.

In our view, CSC could provide H-P with scale and reputation that would help H-P achieve its Services ambitions. The two firms' technology strengths are complementary.

In our view, Pfizer is in fact defensive and has demonstrated that it can weather the blows in a measured fashion due to its dramatic scale advantage and strong balance sheet.

In our business, we have the unique opportunity to make something truly special and create art on a major scale that brings enjoyment to many people. I'm fortunate to be in a field where I get the chance to live out my dream every day and work with a group of people who are not only talented and gifted professionals but who are also dear friends.

In the last five years that pay scale has not changed, but to say that some individuals did not make more money than the previous year is absolutely not true.

If you look at the want ads for Sony Electronics, you don't get the same kind of pay scale you get at Apple, or the same kinds of rewards. They couldn't build up the kind of software infrastructure in America that Cupertino (Apple's hometown) could.