Small wonder that restructuring is a permanent feature of big-five life.
They may even split the legal profession in two: big corporate clients will pair off with the big-five firms, leaving independent law firms with private clients only.
Roaming the reserve are the so-called big five--lion, leopard, rhino, elephant and buffalo--in addition to hippo, giraffe, zebra, warthog, hyena, springbok, wildebeest, and a multitude of smaller creatures and birds.
The area is famous for the so-called Big Five: lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and the Cape Buffalo.
Meanwhile, five big-rig trucks roar up to the back of the building in the space of just 15 minutes, as employees load them up with unmarked brown boxes.
Prof Barnosky and colleagues compared the rates of known species extinctions in mammals, birds and amphibians during the last five centuries with those estimated from the fossil record during the previous Big Five die-outs of the geological past.
We hit it, the steering wheel went dead and the car began to glide, ghosting toward the shoulder, which looked about four feet wide and well below the surface of the new blacktop it was a big drop-off of five or six inches and the shoulder was red clay drenched with rain.
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But the so-called "Big Five" record labels, which control 85 percent of U.S. record sales, say built-in copy protection is the only way they can safeguard their music from freeloading downloaders.
Similarly, five big power-generation firms were split out of a single company in 2002 to foster competition.
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Still, over the last five years the company has been the most adventuresome--at least by number of exploratory wells drilled--of the Big Five.
On yields pest resistant corn showed big differences in yield advantage - five times higher in the Prairie states than in the main crop-growing states.
Meanwhile, on the wider European picture, of the "big five" leagues - England, Germany, Italy, Spain and France - all but Ligue 1 in France saw growth.
None of India's previous five big post-independence droughts caused famine.
He absence had been noticeable, as big-spending Real won just five of 10 matches while he was out, and he also missed Portugal's World Cup playoff victories against Bosnia-Herzegovina.
He could re-up with BMG, dump it in favor of a rival or spurn the Big Five altogether and challenge them head-on.
The iBooks store seemed to provide a solution, which helps explain why five of the big-six publishers signed up without much apparent hesitation.
They are part of a big, solemnly academic, five-year research project.
Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ), one of the five big Wall Street brokerages and among the biggest players in the once high-flying mortgage business, had to resort to a rescue Friday by the Federal Reserve, using JPMorgan Chase (nyse: JPM - news - people ) as its open door to the Fed's discount window.
One day--maybe not next year or in five years, but eventually--the Big Mac will flatline in the U.S. The evidence: In the past four years McDonald's has averaged only 1% annual same-store sales growth, trailing the 4% average for its main burger rivals.
One day--maybe not next year or in five years, but eventually--the Big Mac will flatline in the U.S. The evidence: In the past four years McDonald's has averaged only 1% annual same-store sales growth, trailing the 4% average for its main burger rivals, Burger King, Wendy's and Jack-in-the-Box.
In the first nine months of 2010, the big six banks cleared more than thirty-five billion dollars in profits.
Players choose one of five characters representing the five year-round Big Boss brews: Hell's Belle, Bad Penny, Angry Angel, Blanco Diablo and High Roller.
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That has created a headwind for stocks of big home builders, following a five-year run during which shareholders rode the wave of the white-hot housing market to new riches.
It's never happened before that we've fired a very large bullet that's made largely of copper and aluminum, the size of a washing machine, at a comet that's about--the comet's nucleus is about four or five miles across--to make a big crater.
Ms. Rees-Mogg, who has five full-time employees, says cost was a big factor in recently choosing SAP's offering.
EMC's ten-year shareholder returns are pretty lousy (-13% annualized), but in the past five years Tucci beat all but four of his big-cap tech peers with 10% annual earnings growth.
As many as one in five big firms has a full-time office devoted to the subject.
Behind Jamieson, there is a big tussle with six players stuck on five-under.
It is five times as big, revenue-wise, as Moneygram International ( MGI).
For six years, he worked as an undercover agent using the name Donnie Brasco and managed to infiltrate one of the five big New York crime families - the Bonannos.
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