Several ship brokers refer to a vast order of scrap metal stuck on America's West Coast that was bound for China.
It built a vast order-book of long-term contracts.
Garriga and Vilenkin showed that, in a finite time, the content of each O-region can assume only a finite number of states and, accordingly, any O-region has a finite, even if unimaginably vast (on the order of 10^10), number of unique macroscopic, coarse-grain histories [ 1].
The importance that Byzantine rulers attached to history is attested by the vast historical encyclopaedia compiled on the orders of Constantine VII (913 959) in 53 volumes, of which only meagre fragments remain.
At 0 h, bacterial density was, in the vast majority of samples, at two orders of magnitude (×102 CFU/ml), and rarely at three orders of magnitude (×103 CFU/ml).
In order to uncover the vast numbers of other species present at lower orders of magnitude, it would be necessary to produce sequence data of several more orders of magnitude.
The vast majority of orders are delivered on time.
"Quote stuffing?" This is the practice by which stock market players called high-frequency traders slam vast numbers of orders into the system, cancelling them before anyone can react, with the aim of slowing the transit of information to competitors, or of creating confusion from which they can profit – all in the space of milliseconds.
High-speed traders often even cancel a large share of the vast number of orders they place, trying to find the most advantageous ones.
Mr. Ashcroft has also ordered vast overhauls of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Justice Department itself.
