And, thanks to a recent change of rules, it can now buy many, many billions more.
There are -- the measures that would require a change of the rules would be -- one would require 67 votes, which you don't have.
"Change the rules of engagement and you change the future, " says Cotsakos, a Vietnam war veteran.
Mr Jones speculated about what would happen if Scottish voters "change the rules of the game".
Next, determine whether your company can change the rules of engagement with the other players.
We're not going to change the rules of the game in the middle of the season.
When they do, it will totally change the rules of the game and the cards everyone else holds.
The package of bills would also change the rules for the treatment of over-the-counter drugs under popular savings plans.
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"Change the rules of engagement and you change the future, " says Cotsakos, a Vietnam veteran partial to military metaphors.
For budget-strapped CIOs looking to change the rules of their own game, there are several parallels to be drawn.
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Could a competitor change the rules of the game simply by throwing enough engineering and marketing dollars into a rival system?
First, activists and the industry need to change the rules of engagement.
And Republicans are playing more fiercely than ever, to win or obstruct or change the rules of the game if need be.
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They wanted to change the rules of the game, telling women that their power lay in their heads, not in their bras and panties.
The meeting follows confirmation last month that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Buckingham Palace have discussed plans to change the rules of succession to the throne.
In 2009, he moved to change the rules of Indiana's Athletics Hall of Fame so that honorees didn't have to attend the ceremony to be inducted.
Beyond the personnel changes, House Republicans have also moved to change the rules of the House ethics committee, making it much harder for the panel to investigate politically charged cases.
Executives at publicly listed companies should be aware that if they fail to align pay policies with performance, regulators might be inclined to intervene to change the rules of the game.
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As soon as the chamber convened on January 5th, Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico, put forward a motion to change the rules of the filibuster, whereby 41 of the 100 senators can stymie almost any measure.
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They're going to have to decide, lobbyists are going to have to decide, Congress is going to have to decide, but the President has been firm that we have to change the rules of the road going forward.
The only way Mehdi and I have managed to stay focused on the right things is to change the rules of the game so that self-imposed customer, product, and market fit failures have public consequences for the company and shareholders.
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In order to get the up or down vote on Owen that Republicans want, Majority Leader Frist is threatening to change the rules of the Senate so that Democrats can't require 60 votes to move on the nomination and Republicans would need just a simple majority.
Polls show only a minority of Americans are willing to change the rules so that filibusters can be stopped with just 50 votes instead of 60, even on judicial nominations.
We set out to change the set of firmed established rules that govern business and society today, and I hope in the not-so-distant future we will see more people taking risks to define smarter rules that can bring greater value to more people.
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Many analysts are unconvinced, however, pointing out that the extent of the change wrought by 3G technology will affect the very rules of the game, leaving existing players vulnerable.
Ghodsi considers the sector very risky because each of the players in the sector need to be prepared for the rules of the game to change.
All this augurs well for macroeconomic stability (this side of adopting the euro, when all the macroeconomic rules change), and is a record deserving of the warmest praise.
Google even helped persuade the FCC to change the auction rules for part of the spectrum.
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