Brass instruments are wind instruments, and although they may be coiled or bent into different shapes, all brass instruments consist essentially of a very long metal tube.
And along the way, you all broke one "brass ceiling" after another.
He's paid for all his copper and brass up front - only to find that he's left holding a lot more stock than expected.
He concluded that a conservative programme was needed for the revolution to gain the crucial support of some of the top brass, above all of the heavyweight General Antonio de Spinola.
Boyd is considered the father of the F-16, an inexpensive, highly maneuverable jet fighter that the Air Force brass resisted with all their might. ( Lockheed Martin (nyse: LMT - news - people ) has since cranked out more than 4, 000 of them).
They all want a shot at the brass ring--aiming to become public companies by the end of the year.
Within a year, almost all of Schering's top brass had been replaced with Hassan's own managers, including many he'd worked with at Pharmacia.
Former Burnley captain Brass, along with all the players still under contract at Bootham Crescent, is still continuing to defer his wages - a gesture which helped save the club from liquidation.
Then again, watching Strawberry make the rounds with reporters and Mets brass was a reminder of all that's gone wrong with the franchise since he left it 19 years ago.
Not all women are convinced money is the brass ring: "It is good fortune if the person you love--male or female--happens to have money, " says Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women.
And yet in Ghent he had the brass neck to make a speech all about how good a European Britain had become under New Labour.
If you wondered why the two candidates seemed so chippy the other night, think about how you would feel if you had to confront the younger, more idealistic version of yourself after you sold out all your principles for a shot at the brass ring.
The new band includes an American guitarist, the first single release -- 'The Death of You and Me' -- has a New Orleans-style brass section, and the videos for all the singles so far -- including 'Dream On' and 'AKA ...
ESPPs are broad-based plans offered to virtually all employees, not a perk just for the top brass.
Which makes no sense at all as a monkey is, in archaic naval parlance, a brass triangle which iron cannon balls are piled up inside of.
It will feature all the national youth and children's orchestras in a two-day celebration of jazz, brass and choral work.
Brass was the favoured choice after gaining respect from the fans over the way he and all the York players dealt with the club going into administration.
The US, Britain and the EU now all make pennies and cents out of steel with a copper plating as copper rose in price making brass and bronze worth more than face value.
None of them were secure and all could be easily opened by a variety of simple techniques including the use of paper clips, straws, brass strips of metal, vibration, shock, coat hangers, and other methods that could easily be figured out by kids.
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