The Brics, and developing countries generally, have immense infrastructure needs.
Teams that do not win do not excite their boosters, fill up stadiums, appear on national TV or get into postseason play, thereby endangering the revenue stream that supports the immense infrastructure.
Over the next 20 years, 350 million people in China — more than the population of the United States — are expected to move from the countryside to the cities, requiring an immense infrastructure build-out.
Maintaining such a moving target also preserves Google's lead: along with its distributed computing capabilities (called MapReduce), its proprietary data storage system BigTable, its immense infrastructure, Google's PageRank algorithm is at the core of the search engine's competitive edge.
Lam: It's easy to forget the immense infrastructure Tesla had to invest in to support the many EVs on the road.
This is all part of China's Belt and Road Initiative that will use its own development model to help "finance and build roads, railways, bridges, ports, and industrial parks abroad". An immense infrastructure build-out that will not just require thermal coal for electricity but also metallurgical coal for steel making.
We must leverage both public and private sector funding to respond to the world's immense infrastructure needs.
Washington says it sees a role for the AIIB given Asia's immense infrastructure needs and regards it as a potential partner for established institutions like the ADB.
It was just another retailer, the bears said, that happened to sell goods online — and had immense, unanticipated infrastructure and technology costs.
An immense logistical infrastructure at Sundance is aided by a smiling army of some 1,800 volunteers, from college kids to retirees, some of whom are rewarded access to films.
