But Rio Tinto, whose efforts at diversification led to the disastrously pricey 2007 acquisition of Alcan, has already rejigged its assets and now derives the vast majority of its profits from iron ore.
The Middle East nation holds around 8% of the world's oil reserves and derives the vast bulk of its national income from fossil fuels, but while other OPEC oil cartel members see renewables as a threat, it has taken a different view.
Because they couldn't buy Facebook shares on the public market until today, they could participate in the growth of the social networking business by buying into Zynga, a company that derives the vast majority of its revenue from Facebook, the theory goes.
Like Twitter, Facebook derives the vast majority of its revenues from advertising.
But nutritionally, such products derive the vast majority of their calories from the syrup in which the fruit is floating.
The ties between universities and accrediting bodies have traditionally run deep, making both dependent upon increased student enrollments for their sustenance: Regional accreditors derive the vast majority of their operating revenue from fees assessed on the colleges they review.
The cerrado, like the Amazon, can be a source of important new medicines and chemicals derived from the vast variety of plant and insect species there, many not yet discovered.
Because the relationships are derived from the vast majority of the chemicals monitored by NHANES, the resulting list of associations is appropriate for evaluating results from targeted data mining or identifying novel candidate relationships for more detailed investigation.
A key aspect for the successful integration of the satellite and terrestrial components is the maximization of technological commonalities aimed at the exploitation of the economy of scale that derives from the vast market basis achievable by the integrated system.
Advantage of LLE derives from the vast body of solvent extraction literature that provides information on choice of organic solvent, of pH and of type and concentration of reagents and how these choices affect both the selectivity that is necessary for sample clean-up and the quantitativeness of extraction that is necessary for preconcentration of the analyte component.
