Brazil is a leader not just in producing biofuels, attracting big investments from Shell and BP, but also in green innovation.
Hospital executives are not thrilled with Epic, yet they shell out big bucks to buy its system.
Advertisers are willing to shell out big bucks for e-mail newsletters, since reader engagement is much higher compared to the passing attention paid to blogs or Web sites.
Owners, hungry for sold-out stadiums and the extra revenue that comes with playoff games, have shown they're willing to shell out big dollars to coaches who have proven they can win.
But to take a company to the next level, it is often essential to shell-out big bucks on such things.
VTech, the company you likely associate with old school telephones and educational toys, is breaking out of its shell in a big way.
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And sometimes luring a crossover talent proves a similarly appealing way to land a big name without having to shell out a similarly sized paycheck.
The early adopters of a new game technology are usually core gamers, who are willing to shell out the big bucks for the latest and greatest system.
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This fact is extremely obvious when you compare the materials used in all the Big Agnes models as the shell of the Horsethief was decidedly more breathable than its counterparts.
Europe, however, could continue to see a decline in the number of systems sold as hospitals are still reluctant to shell out a big amount on these systems amid the economic slowdown.
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In a big blow for Royal Dutch Shell, the Obama administration has blocked the drilling of exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean off the North Slope of Alaska until 2011 at the earliest.
"How the sound reflects off this reflecting surface with this composite object on it - which is pretty big and has a cloaking shell on it - really reflects... just like a flat surface does, " Dr Cummer said.
Unsurprisingly, big oil companies like Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, ConocoPhillips, and Petroleo Brasileiro gained 1.2%, 0.8%, 2.0%, 2.6%, in late-afternoon trading, respectively.
Maintenance workers at Haggerston Castle Holiday Park near Berwick, discovered the shell, thought to be a German "Big Bertha" Howitzer.
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The industry organisation insists that the country's big oil companies - BP, Caltex, Mobil and Shell - "do not profit from high crude oil prices", but are in fact "cushioning the Australian motorists from the full effects of rising crude oil prices".
To that end, Shell two years ago bought half of Intergen, a big independent power producer.
Data gathering and number crunching for the two-year study was done by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a big government contractor, with input from academics and oil companies like Shell, BP, Marathon Energy.
The back is a glossy white shell, similar to the classic iPods, with a nice big Apple logo in the middle.
To that end, it announced a number of partnerships with big consumer brands, including InterContinental Hotel Group, Bass Pro Shops and Shell Oil.
Officially known as the West Indian Locust, the stinking toe tree produces a seed pod that looks like a big, brown toe and also smells like one when the hard outer shell is cracked open.
Although the country's crude is abundant and cheap to produce, Iraq hardly provides the bonanza that foreign companies like BP, Royal Dutch Shell and Lukoil hoped for when they signed deals to develop its big fields.
Big oil is taking note of the opportunity as BP ( BP) and Royal Dutch Shell ( RDS.B) are investing billions in separate Brazilian ethanol ventures.
In a high-risk move, Plains Exploration (PXP) is levering up big time in order to acquire wells in the Gulf of Mexico from the BP and Royal Dutch Shell.
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