When the team sells the company for a big sum, everyone needs to share in the wealth.
British lawmakers have suggested News Corp. paid such a big sum to Mr. Taylor in 2008 to keep quiet potential revelations of more widespread wrongdoing at the tabloid.
"It is a big sum of money in the context of a police force where I want to get more uniformed officers back on the beat - it is a stark choice that has to be made, " he said.
That's a big enough sum to last for many generations if well managed -- even with a prolific family.
But I am told it will be a big enough sum for this to be a "real story" (in the not-very-helpful description of a source).
Most of these restaurants have made another big change in how dim sum is eaten: They've done away with serving trolleys, mainly to give chefs more control over cooking and presentation.
In sum, Google made a big mistake in allowing the Google-Mozilla agreement to expire and putting the business relationship out for competitive bidding, because it now begs for public and antitrust scrutiny.
Importantly, the measure of whether banks are increasing their net lending will be the sum of their respective lending to big businesses, mortgage lending to households, lending to non-bank providers of credit such as leasing and factoring companies and mortgage corporations, and either 10 or five times net loans to small enterprises.
With interest rates so low, it makes sense for Apple to borrow a large sum of money rather than pay a big tax bill.
Some homeowners complain that the lump-sum payments they get from FEMA aren't big enough to cover mold removal along with rent and all the other things that need to be repaired.
January is often a big month for stock-fund inflows, in part due to lump-sum retirement-plan contributions, says David Blanchett, head of retirement research at Morningstar Investment Management, an advisory unit of Morningstar Inc.
But some firms, most famously Matsushita, a big electronics manufacturer, have introduced a new scheme in which employees waive the lump sum at retirement in return for a higher salary.
The NFL considers its sum vastly more important than its parts, sharing revenue, promoting parity, pushing big-picture prosperity for all.
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The uncollected sum amounts to nearly 2% of annual tax collections, more than enough to fund a spate of big agencies.
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