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It's also impressive as all get-out on a quantitative scale, which is important to an industry that assumes the reader/viewer/listener has the IQ of a pistachio and will always think that less is, well, less and that more is a synonym for good.

In average years this should translate into savings of about 20,000 gallons of water per year per structure on the small side of the scale.

"Aida" was performed on a grand scale - from the opera stars, who were top-notch, to the staging, setting, costumes, the animals and a premier conductor in Walter Attanasi.

Christian missionary work in the Islamic world including attempts at proselytism among Muslims has been conducted on a considerable scale since the 19th century and through the height of colonial rule, but has met increasing restrictions since such rule ended during the 1940s and 1950s.

Turner argued that those setting up the federal sentencing guidelines had never envisioned that a 23-year-old, first-time offender could score so high on the sentencing scale.

"We are certainly concerned about it because of the scale of the carp industry in this country."The library, whose russet-colored shingles overlap like the scales of a fish, is also part art gallery and concert space and lecture hall; it is the town's intellectual fulcrum.

"The Spirit mission is showing your absolute ingenuity in its highest form," said Cheney, who received a scale model of Spirit and a wristwatch that keeps Mars time.

* On a scale of 0 to 10, where 5 is neutral, medium-sized businesses gave that part of the legislation 1.4.

On a broad scale, much of his anxiety seems to stem from his sense of dislocation from a world gone mad.

Back then Gilmour was a “second” for his father, Tommy senior – the Star Maker – and a promoter in his own right, albeit on a much less grand scale at places like Glasgow’s Plaza ball-room and out in the sticks at Cambuslang and Holytown.

English is Britain's main cultural export to the rest of the world; but the industry that has followed in its footsteps is a bad joke on a colossal scale.

They also depress wage rates for existing workers at the lower end of the income scale.

The "gray scale" — the range of shadings between black and white — is far richer, subtler, more textured and real.

When the drawings came to town, from the Frick Collection in New York, the Kimbell brought out its Boucher paintings, borrowed the Getty's two and re-created a room that is similar in scale to de Frouville's.

A master of small musical thoughts — the piano vignette, the intense lied — he inflated them onto a grand scale, linking them in a cycle ("Kinderszenen," "Dichterliebe") or working a patchwork of motifs into a large edifice (the symphonies).

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