The dinner was hosted by some bigwigs, including Forbes 400 members, Robert Rich, Jr.
Democratic bigwigs have promised a single bill that keeps spending at last year's level.
It was clear to Republican bigwigs then that their party needed a fresh start.
At a time of acute gloom, EU and IMF bigwigs see hope in this Baltic resilience.
Carried interest is not the only concern weighing on the minds of private-equity bigwigs.
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Tickets were cheaper and easier to obtain, but lots of bigwigs still tried hard to blag them.
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Even Mr Brown was forced to acknowledge that fact in a meeting with City bigwigs this week.
Better pay, more magazine profiles, trips to Davos, talks at TED, and more outside boards with other bigwigs.
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It is the only North America-based major memory manufacturer that competes against South Korean bigwigs like Samsung and Hynix.
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Soon the bigwigs at headquarters were muttering about missing earnings projections for the second quarter of 1999--and blaming XcelleNet.
Ms Tyson agrees: a business-school dean, she reckons, needs to be more nimble and responsive than other academic bigwigs.
The bigwigs of the Democratic Party changed their primary calendar this year with this sort of outcome in mind.
Until bigwigs in Brussels and Washington are ready to outface their cosseted farmers, Mr Zoellick's tariff-cutting plan will go nowhere.
The Treasury's Web site is full of easy-to-find links to testimony, speeches, reports, presentations and position papers endorsed by departmental bigwigs.
Since then, his company, KahnTest, has worked with children of the city's patrician families, media bigwigs and a celebrity or two.
An independent commission of pro-Turkey bigwigs, led by a former Finnish president, Martti Ahtisaari, will publish a progress report on September 7th.
Bigwigs from the ruling African National Congress have visited the trouble spots.
They have met the prime minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, and other bigwigs, as well as delegations of their own people from Nagaland.
So the bigwigs left it to more junior negotiators to present the result of their horse-trading to the world's grumpy, exhausted delegates.
Recently, a panel of bigwigs set up by the Conference Board went farther and urged that the two top jobs generally be split.
Since then, the U.N. has maintained offices in Phnom Penh, and has called for a special court to try detained Khmer Rouge bigwigs.
Global Zero announced itself with a meeting in December 2008 that drew together more than 100 international political, diplomatic, military and academic bigwigs.
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With help from Web bigwigs like Google, Wikipedia and Facebook, opponents eventually killed SOPA and a similar piece of legislation in the Senate.
Eurocrats often get on well with administration officials (another secret is that European bigwigs found the second-term Bush lot congenial to deal with).
This is partly because marginals are the target of most pre-election effort: party bigwigs visit, activists campaign door-to-door, posters are pasted all over town.
But by making himself more acceptable to the voters at large, Mr Fini risks alienating the PdL bigwigs who will choose Mr Berlusconi's successor.
Laugh lines aside, Comcast honcho Steve Burke has had a lengthy list of potential bigwigs to either keep or lose in the reshuffled company.
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Persuading corporate bigwigs to talk was tough: the students quickly learned the need to pay a personal visit, rather than merely send an invitation.
The third criterion is the most important: making good use of what's left when the athletes, the IOC bigwigs and the world's media go home.
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