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This is one reason why recent labor numbers were lackluster, ... Accelerated deprecation put a thumb on the side of the scale in favor of increased capital expenditures instead of hiring.

This hearing was Napster's attempt to escape responsibility for aiding and abetting wide scale piracy and, not surprisingly, they lost,

And on a scale of 1 to 10, they're a 10. Just being in Cleveland for one year, having faced them twice, my body was sore and bruised after every game I faced them.

And that is still not happening at the scale or the pace we would like to see,

For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe has to be united in some way, and Europe is not united.

For a major hotel, like we did a couple of years ago, it's different because of the scale and size of the building. We have an outside contractor do a building the size of a hotel. The demolition was bigger then the city could handle.

For all the huge advances in the control of our lives through science and technology, an earthquake on this scale is truly humbling as well as profoundly tragic for everyone involved,

It's like margarine in the sense that we're spread very thinly. And we often find that we're competing with businesses that are much larger. We're constantly facing the struggle of scale and size.

It's the first key Fed speech since the scale of the devastation became apparent so that could be quite important if he is used as a vehicle to express Fed policy.

It's not enough to have a value-adding product in a big market. You also need the right conditions. Will you be able to scale revenues within a 5-10 year time frame? Is the timing right? YouTube wouldn't have worked pre-broadband.

It's of a scale that hasn't been seen in Australia before and it's a scale of truly ... international standard.

It's of a scale that not many people have done.

It's not trivial. The hard part is building something that people can use and having it scale to millions of people.

It's very cheap and the economies of scale are very good, but the hostility it raises and the damage it can do could have an adverse effect. It outweighs the amount of response that you could possibly get.

It's not just the food crisis that is claiming lives in Kenya; the knock-on impact of the crisis risks sparking conflict on a scale that Kenya hasn't seen for almost a decade. Unless aid to the affected area is stepped up this month, March could see many more killed.

It's a part of them ramping up and getting to an economy of scale where they can actually make money.

It's a really paradoxical thing. We want to think big, but start small. And then scale fast. People think about trying to build the next Facebook as trying to start where Facebook is today, as a major global presence.

Asset management is a scale business, and we expect some cost saves.

As we hire rapidly to scale up the company, it is natural to issue a larger number of stock awards than we would otherwise. The cost to the company of these stock awards occurs only over the periods the awards vest, which is when the employees earn the related benefit.

Economies of scale from launching in the UK first have allowed us to include this upgraded battery pack for the US launch. We're also making this new battery available in Europe for those wanting to get more out of their new Gizmondo handheld.

Eventually, you get to the point that the paradigm involved in this won't work. You've got to do something different. The addition of leap seconds is going to be an increasing nuisance for people who are counting on a time scale where a minute actually contains 60 seconds.

This positions us to be competitive on a global scale and brings investors the benefit of greater liquidity. I think it's very appropriate that we analyze the performance of the market in the pre and post decimalization period, with special attention being given to making certain that public investors are treated as well in decimals as they have been in fractions for the past 208 years.

They don't have the size and scale to obtain mindshare with component suppliers, or with contract manufacturers. They want the same command, control and continuity of their supply chains they enjoy with their North American or Western European operations.

They give you a scale of pain and zero being the least and 10, the worst you've had in your life, well, about 30. That's what it feels like.

There was this Bronze Age eruption about 4000 years ago, and then 2000 years ago there was the 79AD event. It seems that just about every 2000 years, there's been a major eruption of this scale at Vesuvius.

It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future.

It's fair to say the benefits of scale are pretty much unproven. Selected acquisitions are fine if you can demonstrate that you add value, but I hope the days of people putting flags on maps are behind us.

There's a big difference in doing it in scale and in respecting users' privacy. When you do this with 250m people or more in multiple languages, you really want to make it secure.

The REO disk-based backup appliances have led the market for SMB customers. Overland is approaching the market by emphasizing value-based pricing, ease of use, and the intelligence of its Protection OS suite. ESG Research has found that customers want to retain backup data onto disk for relatively long periods of time so they can rapidly recover data. With the increased capacity support, the REO is an excellent recovery appliance. Additionally, being able to scale to 38 terabytes enables Overland to extend its reach to larger customers, leveraging its leadership and success in the SMB market.

It was getting our brains focused and getting ready. He talked about, on a scale from one to 10, being an 11. I really want to do this.

Its just starting to ramp up. It's by neighborhood. Late in the second quarter we'll scale it to multiple markets.

You have to have scale in this business. By doubling the size of their credit-card business, Bank of America will lower their cost of handling each individual account.

We are trying to see how we can help to scale down the violence, and the situation of tension, and therefore to return to what is a dream of everybody, to try to negotiate a permanent peace.

We could be condemned on a massive scale for taking an abdication of responsibility,

It is very difficult for me to speculate as to how long it will take for the LTE-TDD ecosystem to mature. Of course, the whole industry is speaking of scale and a combination of scale in order to get more efficiency in the ecosystem.

It is s a massive amount of people, half the population of Scotland. Can you imagine a tragedy on that scale in the western world. Something like that, just wouldn't happen. We have to dig deep.

It is still too early to judge whether the froth will become evident on a widening geographic scale or whether recent indications of some easing of speculative pressures signal the onset of a moderating trend,

It was so different than anything we had ever seen, much less decorated. We soon realized we had to forget everything we had ever learned about decorating. The scale was huge, totally open, and the space was very cold looking but offered some wonderful geometric shapes.

It's a very well-established business with significant distribution channels. Our ability to tap into those remains to be seen, but having a partner of this quality and scale gives us access to China that would be inconceivable without the partnership.

We have a desire to do things at scale, and by scale we mean the kinds of things that can touch not just millions, but hundreds of millions of people, and an approach that combines real innovation, technically and otherwise,

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

About the same time as my legal studies were thus beginning, I planned out a study of Philosophy and Aesthetics on a large scale as well.

About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.

It may not be quite on the scale of building the pyramids, but it's pretty close. And I'm already telling you right now, get your headlines ready, because we're not going to do a perfect job of it.

It shows that these galaxies are not in equilibrium, that something is pulling stars out of these galaxies. On this scale the only thing we know of that can do this is another galaxy, and we can actually see that.

There's a place on the scale for every personal or professional style, including casual dress in the workplace.

This may not be on the scale of building the pyramids, but it's close.

This is the rush for a global proposition. It's very evident, with the moves from Electronic Arts and others, that we're at the beginnings of real scale in this industry, and the winners are going to be those who can offer a global solution.

There's a lot of miscellany in there that's not particularly relevant coming from the sites I've been to. For instance, there's a lot of stuff on Fox News, which I really don't care about...Over time it will get better. I would give it a six on a scale of 10.

I believe it's appropriate for the federal government to assist the faith community because of the scale and scope of the effort and how long it's lasting.

.com domain names still account for more than 80% of net new registrations. If there is any automatic change in pricing in the agreement, it should be for an annual decrease resulting from economies of scale and efficiencies that naturally occur in our industry.

I can't believe the scale of it, the devastation. And I only saw a small part,

He's more of the laid-back type but when it gets to this grand scale and we're on the top in the horse racing world, he gets very excited and very much enjoys it.

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence --this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

I don't want to sound arrogant, but why would we? They don't have the market share or technology we need. Scale is No. 1 on our dance card. Where do you get scale? You go to the big players with alliances.

If I don't know how a title will sell, I do a small run and scale up quickly if demand appears. Because I can now print as few as 100 books and turn a small profit I tend to keep all my titles in print.

I felt really small and insignificant being surrounded by that scale of destruction and the void of life that was all around me.

I don't see any storm clouds on the economic horizon. We don't see any potential land mines or problem areas. Even an attack on the scale of 9/11 would not cause the economy to go into recession in the next two years.

I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.

I do love doing action, but if I can balance the scale by doing other kinds of films that satisfy my creative ambitions, that feels really important.

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.

For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale

For our customers, ECC means efficient security. You no longer have to choose between performance and security. Now you can expand the security features of your network based services without worrying about excluding whole classes of devices from participation. And you can scale up to accommodate enormous volumes of secure transactions on demand.

For the first time, we are seeing the emergence of a response to this deadly disease that begins to match the scale of the epidemic itself,

Amgen is growing rapidly, and our scale and complexity require that we have one executive be responsible for research and development, ... In addition, we plan multiple global product launches, and we need one executive to integrate our worldwide sales and marketing activities.

The launch of this new magazine offers PC World's customers an engaging new branding experience. It finely balances inspiration with practical knowledge and buying advice, designed to deepen the customer's relationship with the PC World brand. The scope and effectiveness of editorial combined with the sheer scale of circulation will combine to have a significant impact in this dynamic market.

All of the sectional championships are sweet. There is no sweet scale when it comes to sectional championships.

The consolidation trend will certainly continue in 2006, and it won't always be the 'usual suspects' involved in the deals. We expect to see logistics service providers and financial institutions make some TMS-related acquisitions this year as they attempt to 'roll up' providers of complementary solutions in order to accelerate scale and growth.

The difference between what all the people can do individually and the global consumption of nonrenewable resources is huge. The tension is... what will it take to get people to act in concert? There isn't any additive solution to the problem. It will be both governmental and social because that's the scale of the problem.

The logistics of conducting a large scale vaccination program, if we're talking on the order of millions, would be enormously complex and difficult to conceive how we would successfully do that,

Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

We know that they obtained these bodies in a fraudulent way and off the scale of acceptable practice.

During the course of this year these deployments will scale up into large numbers and that is when you'll start to see the innovation. It will blow away the previous video platform.

That's absolutely an important model because scale is important.