Among the start-ups that have hit it big: Arm, an international microprocessor manufacturer, and CSR, developer of Blutetooth wireless technology.
The gestures could be either big ones like arm waving, or subtle ones like tapping your finger on your thigh or coffee table.
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Google X is the "big ideas" arm of the search firm that is tasked with testing out ideas outside the normal remit of the larger company.
They can operate independently or be combined into an ARM big.
Walgreen can't strong-arm the big PBMs. So it's trying to reach them obliquely.
Home Star legislation making its way through the U.S. Senate may give the home-performance industry a big shot in the arm.
Colin Kaepernick began making great plays at quarterback for the 49ers, giving himself a great big kiss on the arm for a job well done.
ING, the Dutch bank-and-insurance group which in 1995 snapped up Barings, an investment bank with a big asset-management arm, after the British firm went bust.
The company got a big shot in the arm on July 12, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track status to the Canadian company's Fluviral flu vaccine.
Later this year the company will begin selling mid-sized cars called the Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan and Lincoln Zephyr that the company thinks will give its car sales a big shot in the arm.
The new Digital Public Library of America (or DPLA) will be kicking off its first big pilot project at the Boston Public Library next month, and it's now gotten a big shot in the arm courtesy of the US National Archives.
Now Tebow will be someone else's project, the muscular quarterback with the iffy arm and the big heart.
"This is definitely an area of focus for us, " said a spokesman for the regulatory arm of the Big Board.
"At one time it was all about having a big quarterback with a strong arm, " former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr said.
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Handed the opening day assignment in place of injured Johan Santana, Niese enjoyed a big afternoon with both his arm and bat.
But the big jailer's left-arm spin looked easy pickings until Sangakkara holed out on the boundary at the start of his second spell.
Other particularly weak life companies are Hannoversche Leben, Victoria (owned by Munich Re, a big reinsurer) and the life arm of Gerling, one of Germany's weakest general insurers.
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If somebody is bigger and stronger than the child, the child rotates his or her arm forward in a big circle, preventing the would-be attacker from grabbing hold.
Australia released draft revisions to tax laws on Thursday, which it said were designed to stop big firms, including the local arm of Google, from shifting their income to countries such as Holland or Ireland where the tax rates are lower.
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Warren was a junior when Harvey arrived at Chapel Hill, a big-time prospect with a power arm.
Or is the influx of money and big names a refreshing shot in the arm for European football?
Which should mean a big year, as well, for ARM and Warren East.
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It created a widely admired venture-capital arm, but never made big enough bets to create breakthroughs, says Ms Kanter.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners hired the advisory arm of PIMCO, a big fund manager, in 2009 to develop alternative risk-based capital requirements for the industry's holdings of residential mortgage securities.
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Its semi-rival ARM was one of the first big players to join up, and now Samsung has decided to hop onboard too.
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Blackwell, a big-hitting batsman and a left-arm spinner, provides new captain Will Smith with plenty of experience having played 147 first-class matches.
But as the only Big Four firm to not sell its consulting arm after the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley and the introduction of new scope of services restrictions to support more auditor independence, Deloitte is the biggest and strongest of all the firms in technology and systems implementation, in particular.
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As a result of big losses on such tech and telecom picks as ARM Holdings, KPN and SK Telecom, his list on average did worse than the MSCI World index.
Stuart Davis, chief executive of HSBC's Indian arm, says there has been a surge in big firms borrowing abroad in dollars, which can be cheaper than doing so at home even once currency-hedging costs are included.
While the commission is confident the plan is legally sound, the long arm of the levy has raised the hackles of big investment banks, as well as the UK and Luxembourg, which rejected such an EU-wide tax.
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