Big Al stands at the door of the Green Mill cocktail lounge, rapping a wad of dollars against his broad knuckles.
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Big Al has worked the door here longer than he cares to remember, and he's insistent that the atmosphere at the Green Mill remains exactly how it was when a certain other Big Al was a regular here in the 1920s.
Indeed, it is not altogether clear how big a threat he thinks al-Qaeda poses.
The colt had always been destined to win the big Dubai prize at Nad al Sheba after Sheikh Mohammed renamed him as a two-year-old.
Third, we all know that the big guys (Google et al) will never let Twitter come public, they almost have to take a run at it first.
The estate of Al Davis could potentially face big inheritance taxes on the Oakland Raiders.
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"This is not a big deal, " said blogger Eman al-Nafjan, who writes about Saudi women's issues.
Don't expect the same kind of fuss that was made over Katie Couric's big NBC debut to be repeated for Al Jazeera 's new English-language channel, broadcasting for the first time on Wednesday.
Most of what you'll hear is fully fleshed-out music, with big string arrangements that bring to mind an Al Green record.
Some big names snubbed this year were Jessica Chastain, Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Katie Holmes, Bette Midler, Sigourney Weaver, Paul Rudd and Scarlett Johansson.
These new software-led platforms are influencing how networks, computers, and applications are deployed in companies and in big services like Facebook, Apple, et al. This is a HUGE trend and it is impacting incumbent players and attracting new entrants to the market.
Whatever the suspicions about Mr Derwish, Mr bin al-Shibh is known to be a big fish.
It was 2000 when a big issue for Democrats and their standard-bearer, Al Gore, was pushing a prescription drug benefit that would allow the federal government to negotiate prices directly with pharmaceutical companies.
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Tension has flared over the visits to Britain of Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Islamic scholar with a big international following.
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"The lesson Al Gore learned from health care defeat was that big, bold things can't get done in Washington, " Bradley continued.
"People who are aware know that it's not that big of a deal even if these applications are blocked, " explained Al-Nafjan.
And when Mr Barak's otherwise big concessions stopped short of yielding Palestinian sovereignty over Jerusalem's Haram al-Sharif, where the great mosques stand, Arafat got the pretext he needed.
Valencia finished third in the table for the third season in a row, while big-spending Malaga, owned by Qatari Abdullah bin Nasser bin Abdullah Al Ahmed Al Thani, clinched the fourth and final European Champions League qualifying spot.
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"This is the big question, " says Dr Mokahmer Abu Sada, who teaches politics at Al Azhar University in Gaza.
Jordan's leader said that the big concern is whether the weapons could fall into the hands of groups like al Qaeda, which he said he believes is operating in parts of Syria.
Earlier this month, audiences in the emirate flocked to watch Faten al-Helw, a lion-taming Egyptian grandmother, put her big cats through flaming hoops.
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Al Qudra, an Abu Dhabi-based investment company, said it had bought big tracts of farmland in Morocco and Algeria, and was closing in on purchases in Pakistan, Syria, Vietnam, Thailand, Sudan and India.
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Like all writers (it's almost safe to say) he was a big drinker. (See Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Cheever, Mailer, et al.) I once startled Gore by saying I'd just read that each drink kills more than 10, 000 brain cells.
Left-arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan provided the inspiration for the Tigers with three wickets, the first of which ended the big partnership.
Mr. FAYYED AL-AMARI: We're hearing talk that the administration right now was interested in doing a big push on the Palestinian-Israeli track.
Our sessions would be interrupted now and then by calls from Al Davis (an early boss), James Lofton (whom Walsh coached at Stanford) and other big football names.
Torre said his decision to examine a big expansion came after Jeff Nelson missed a call at second base in the second game of last year's AL championship series.
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