"The big word for us today was focus and we did just that, " said Yates.
Mr. EDWIN ARNOLD (Veteran): Hopefully I don't relapse, but never's a big word.
Accountability is a big word in health care these days, as everyone looks to try and control escalating health care costs while the companies involved still aim to improve profitability.
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"One big word tends to get in the way of anyone successful in the U.K., " says Stuart Rose, a seasoned retail executive who stewarded the sale of Arcadia to Green.
The big D word of deflation has resurfaced.
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Medical tourism agencies are expecting this year to be big, as word spreads and the insurance industry warms to the idea of offering low-cost overseas procedures as options in employers' benefits packages.
Of late there's been word of big new investment from booming Dubai.
The examples, she noted, are endless: the enormous productivity gains engineered by Toyota, the way Infosys redefined what was possible in India, the lives saved by what is now a swear word, Big Pharma.
So one Midland council is taking Mr Pickles at his word, thinking big and going into business.
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There's no word on if Big Blue plans to share the discovery with chemical corporations, but it certainly sounds better than downing a shot of Purell every time we venture in for a check-up.
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After the disclosure of the high-profile attack on Google and other big companies last fall, word quickly leaked out that the flaw used to compromise the search giant was an unpatched problem in Internet Explorer.
The internet and mobile technology enable non-politicians to do without big party organisations to spread the word.
Again, small differences in word choice can make big differences in the attitudes and perceptions of people internal and external to your business.
And you thought Big Data was just a buzz word.
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It was already known that the Incredible was destined for a rendezvous with Big Red, but this latest word solidifies and specifies that future nicely -- and it's claimed to come directly from internal sources at Verizon.
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It's free for phones that run Android 2.0, and word is that they're in talks with Apple to get it on the iPhone (word that brought a big hit to the stock of both GPS giants, Garmin and TomTom).
"It's a big disappointment because they had given their word they would play and one doesn't go back on his word, " added Lievremont.
"Marky was partial to a few drinkies, but he was a kind man with a big heart and never had a bad word to say about anyone, " a statement read.
Mr. Chesney is considered such a valuable off-season moneymaker for these big venues that last year, when word got out that Mr. Chesney intended to lay off stadiums this summer to focus on sites with half the capacity, managers of some of the NFL's biggest buildings teamed up.
Word of mouth helped make My Big Fat Greek Wedding a much bigger hit than dozens of heavily advertised films.
"Capitulate" is a fancy word for what investors do after big losses make them more intent on preserving capital than increasing it.
When Big Scar Wu arrived in the underworld and word spread of his demise, they renamed him Smiley Cat, much to his chagrin, with the name fuelling his bitterness with every utterance and driving his thirst for revenge.
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"It's more peaceful out here than it is in Croydon today, " he says, as music booms from the courtside speakers, and indeed, the word "Boom" flashes up on the big screen after another decisive point is scored.
Tony Mwai is a native Kenyan who was educated in the United States, and after 25 years with Big Blue in the U.S. he caught word that IBM was looking to expand in Africa as part of its overall growth market strategy.
The poster boy for off-the-rails, disastrous optimism is Neville Chamberlain, the British prime minister who met with Hitler in 1938 and handed him a big chunk of Czechoslovakia in exchange for the Fuhrer's word.
According to Comscore, it's the most visited fitness site with 7 million users (162 million page views in January), but Spark has taken a low-key, word-of-mouth approach compared to its big bucks advertising competitors like Weight Watchers.
Mr. TODD AMBS (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources): We were going to be in trouble if we put together a document that was so specific that we then would go to the legislatures and say, well, here it is, yeah, it's big, significant, but you can't touch a word of it.
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