At the very least, the Pac-12-Big Ten alliance creates an unprecedented viewership and international market that advertisers would likely pay unprecedented dollars, beyond the value of current media contracts.
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Notre Dame has gained far more than the Big East in the alliance.
He never wholly reconciled the party to his main big idea: its strategic alliance with New Labour.
Many big firms, such as Alliance Boots (a health-and-beauty group) have abandoned public stockmarkets and embraced private equity.
Another is that many Europeans feel that the alliance is already big enough, and that some newer members joined too soon.
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But Data Distilleries has one big advantage: a strategic alliance with Accenture (previously Andersen Consulting), a global consulting group that also owns an equity stake and is busily putting its new partner in touch with senior managers in client companies.
These include a radical shake-up of labour laws, reform of the public sector, and a drive to promote competition and reduce the tariffs charged by the privatised utilities, seen by Alliance economists as a big drag on business.
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Mr. Rasmussen was speaking as he launched NATO's 2012 annual report, which draws attention to three big risks for the 28-nation alliance.
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Just as it frustrated Mr Tremonti's tax-cutting ambitions, it will also frustrate the big-spending aspirations of the National Alliance and the UDC.
But Eden District Council, a Conservative and Independent Alliance coalition, said the Big Society was costing it little except in terms of council officers' time advising groups.
COPEI, he too came to power in a haphazard alliance whose victory humiliated the two big parties.
It remains the last of the big European airlines not to have joined an alliance, although it has links with two of the largest groupings.
More big moves: in April, the company formed an alliance with Yahoo Japan to launch a PC-based social game platform called Yahoo Mobage.
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The big-box stores are backing a coalition called the Alliance for Main Street Fairness, which is leading efforts to change sales-tax laws in more than a dozen states including Texas and California.
Pessimists note that Mr Cardoso failed to pass many of these reforms in spite of having a big majority in Congress, and that Lula's parliamentary alliance, a collection of leftist and populist groups, will be in a minority.
Alliance Party leader Sean Neeson fared particularly badly and another big loser is UKUP candidate Bob McCartney whose tally of first preferences is likely to fall short of his 70, 000 prediction.
British Airways and American Airlines have cleared a big hurdle in their two-year-old bid to form an alliance.
Loke says Proton needs a global alliance with a major player that can provide technology and a big distribution network.
Like most gains in the sector, these are new outsourcing clients, rather than coming out of the hides of big rivals Compass Group, which is also doing well, and Sodexho Alliance.
What the tobacco wars show is how feeble even the most ruthless big businesses are compared with a newer force in American life: the alliance of citizen activists, public-health officials and trial lawyers.
Officials from the Alliance of Automobile Manufactures, the industry group that represents the "Big Three" automakers--Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler--were not immediately available for comment Friday.
That adds credence to previous speculation that an Alliance member would get the job, even though the party is not one of the big four that together make up the executive.
Four big universal financial groups, created from the merger of six keiretsu into three, together with a regional bank alliance.
Sun pulled in 33 big companies, including UAL, General Motors, Vodaphone and Sony, and last September they formed the Liberty Alliance .
According to ICM polls for the National Union of Teachers, the big shift against the Conservatives came in 1987 when 46% of teachers said they would support the Liberal Democrat Alliance, with 28% supporting Labour and 24% the Conservatives.
Another factor propelling Sprint into the arms of a suitor is the seemingly inevitable dissolution of Global One, the firm's ill-fated alliance with France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom that was supposed to offer a one-stop communications shop for big corporate customers.
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