Word: scale
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...naysaying: "Don't tell me it can't be done. If we can put a man on the moon, we can verify age." All 50 state prosecutors are scheduled to meet this week to discuss social networking, and at least one of them is actively looking into filing large-scale consumer-protection suits, according to a source who works with that attorney general...
...back-room political battles over the scale of his amnesty proposal reveal the depth of the challenge facing Prime Minister Maliki in seeking to reconcile the competing interests of Sunni nationalists, Shiite religious parties and the U.S. After all, for the past three years the differences between those interests have been played out as a low-intensity...
...SCALE OF THE WORK The lock-and-lake plan made much of the French digging superfluous. Still, U.S. excavations accounted for 75% of the total removed...
...happens, Roosevelt's outlook was not entirely different. He didn't dispute the benefits of large-scale capitalism, and he thought of huge enterprises as an inevitable development of the industrial age. He understood the idea of economies of scale. Wisconsin Senator Robert La Follette and William Jennings Bryan, the perennial standard bearer for the common man, might have wanted to dismantle everything bigger than a hardware store. What Roosevelt wanted was simply to regulate the big outfits. For starters, he wanted to compel them to open their books. Quarterly reporting in the corporate world was still a novelty...
...that a lot of innocent people died in Haditha. The members of Kilo Company apparently abused their power while serving there. Perhaps they were confused because they can't distinguish friend from foe. It's as though the My Lai massacre had happened again, albeit on a smaller scale. One thing is sure: history does repeat itself...