But they do serve to ready the banks' checkbooks to pay more severe moving violations.
After holding onto their checkbooks the past few years, corporations unleashed a series of strategic acquisitions in 2010.
For years, Wall Street had the prestige and biggest checkbooks to hire the best young talent and programmers.
Angels are people, not investment firms, so there is a lot competing for their attention and their checkbooks.
If the Supreme Court agrees with that view, look for the banks to pull out the checkbooks and settle.
Only when those checkbooks become susceptible to a Tonya Harding-esque beating will either side rush back to the bargaining table.
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To those who call seeking advice, I tell them: Don't shop alone and get rid of your credit cards and checkbooks.
And demand will be curtailed as retail and institutional investors put their checkbooks away and head to the beach or the mountains.
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That would be classic franchises like Pong, Centipede, Missile Command and Asteroids, so Hollywood get out your checkbooks for those film rights.
Italian lingerie company La Perla gives its workers tips on how to manage the big egos that sometimes accompany its clientele's fat checkbooks.
Other than knowing how to get politicians to open our checkbooks.
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Fund-raiser and former congressman Steve Grossman stressed that Lieberman-inspired donors took out their checkbooks because of the senator's character and stance on the issues--not just his heritage.
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CBS, FOX and NBC better get their checkbooks ready as their NFL deals are set to expire after the 2013 season and will be renewed at substantial increases.
Some of our best companies such as LinkedIn, Airbnb and Cisco were made during dark times when many our brethren had their checkbooks and wallets locked in their drawers.
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Ray Kopp, an economist at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, says American companies, potential buyers and sellers in the carbon market, are watching with their hands on their checkbooks.
As long as the automakers have their checkbooks out--doling out billions of dollars to entice unionized workers to leave--why don't they pay off some of their dealers to close up shop, too?
Jewish Americans long have been generous to the Democratic Party, but key fund-raisers and Jewish leaders across the country suggest that Lieberman's nomination has sent Jewish voters to their checkbooks in record numbers.
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In some ways I can imagine that the experience in business, human interaction, balancing checkbooks, people management discipline that an older generation has accrued might make older entrepreneurs better armed to start a business.
The American giants have arrived with fat checkbooks and are making sympathetic noises about localizing content, while a number of strong Asian players with big backing are giving them a run for their money.
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In fact, among the victims who knew how their data was taken, lost or stolen wallets, checkbooks, or credit cards accounted for nearly two times as many instances of theft as all online attack methods combined.
The card was targeted at young mothers and IDEO's observation team set about following a selection of moms around as they went about their daily business: taking their children to school, shopping, even balancing their checkbooks.
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