Companies are taking advantage of higher share prices to make acquisitions and increase profits by cutting costs and increasing scale.
Commercial organic growers, who are looking for a high-performing peat-free alternative, are adopting it on an increasing scale.
A more reasonable conclusion is that the increasing scale and violence of the attacks indicate the failure of our policies.
But he added: "Our increasing scale and operational efficiencies meant that we still grew profits, albeit at a slower rate".
While surrogacy has always raised ethical questions, the increasing scale of the industry makes the issue far more urgent.
There has also been a proliferation of new business-angel networks, venture capitalists, private-debt funds and crowdfunding platforms of increasing scale and variety.
This has been accompanied by a pronounced internal rural-to-urban migration, largely because of the increasing scale of farming and the mechanization of agriculture.
When such action is not taken, those who are indifferent to the increasing scale and intensity of violence become complicit in the exponentially increasing crimes.
A merger of NYSE Euronext and Deutsche B? has been two years in the making, aimed at improving profit by increasing scale.
At the same time, Aftergood told me, the overclassification of information is a problem of increasing scale — one that harms not only citizens, who should be able to have access to government records, but the system of classification itself.
Rather than such "back door taxation", he proposes a graded system whereby a set number of kilowatt hours are levy-free, after which a levy is charged on an increasing scale.
