It turns out that, if you want to know what the U.S. military is doing in Africa, it's advantageous to be connected to a large engineering or construction firm looking for business.
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Geoengineering involves humans making intentional, large-scale modifications to the Earths geophysical systems in order to change the environment.
The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.
If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.
I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.
We must admit that history is enjoyable to a large extent because it enables us to pass judgement on the past.
It's hard to make something as large as a government change. It's a little bit like building the transcontinental railroad.
American cities are not scaled to the energy diet of the future. They have become too large. They're over-scaled.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.
In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.
A large psychic void is left by a loss of faith. So many Catholics have tried so many things to replace it.
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.
Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.
