The David-and-Goliath angle is about the biggest clich going in entrepreneurship, but it sometimes works.
But there are lessons that Goliaths like Xerox can learn from more nimble David-sized enterprises.
That's when David Jones -- now performing as David Bowie -- took his first big step towards stardom.
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"It was kind of a David-and-Goliath situation, " recalls Mark Sweeney, a director at pipeline Sempra Energy, who negotiated with Aerie.
More shocking was that David-Weill gave Wasserstein free reign over the family firm, with nothing but a veto to block the IPO.
We'll withhold our judgment as to who wins in this David-versus-Goliath battle.
An unfinished work of an undetermined subject, it is called the David-Apollo.
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David-Lee Priest, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, says music is able to divert attention through a neurological mechanism.
None of this was enough to convince inquiry chairman Robert Francis QC that Sir David - or anyone else for that matter - should go.
After those talks the White House might convene a second Camp David-style summit with the goal of hammering out and signing a final, comprehensive peace deal.
The allure of the David-versus-Goliath narrative is likely to prove irresistible to the media, raising the pressure on Washington to repeal or dramatically modify the law.
But the Elite League's leading points-scorer David-Alexandre Beauregard then pulled Phoenix back into the game with a powerplay strike before the end of the first period.
With the IPO, he is wresting control of the 157-year-old firm away from a powerful group of nonworking partners led by Michel David-Weill , a descendant of the founder.
Wasserstein was personally recruited by David-Weill to help rescue Lazard, which by late 2001 had suffered a wave of high-profile defections and was laboring under the moribund deal market.
Mr David-Weill wants to run the firm for a few years to come, which probably rules out Mr Roger, who is also in his 60s, as a potential successor.
Severn Suzuki - daughter of the renowned conservationist David - went to the Rio Earth Summit 20 years ago as a 13-year-old to ask her elders to sort themselves out.
"It was kind of a David-and-Goliath situation, " recalls Mark Sweeney , a director at pipeline Sempra Energy (nyse: SRE - news - people), who negotiated with Aerie.
So, even if Mr David-Weill approves of Mr Wasserstein's overall plan, it is difficult to see how Lazard could find the capital it would need to buy out existing shareholders.
David-Weill recruited Wasserstein in 2002 to turn around Lazard's flagging business, but the two immediately began to clash over the lavish pay packages Wasserstein was doling out to lure new bankers.
"Boy Leading a Horse" went to MoMA after the death of William S. Paley in 1990, and the Fifth Avenue apartment is now the Manhattan home of French financier Michel David-Weill.
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So, on November 27th, Mr David-Weill said that Eurafrance would begin a buy-back of its shares and would look for other ways to increase their price towards their asset value or better.
With the influx of DCGs coming to mobile and web platforms, David-Marshall is excited about the genre moving forward and is thankful to have the experience moving forward with the upcoming third CCG.
In January 2003 the Microsoft SQL Server worm, known as Slammer, infected a private computer network at David-Besse nuclear power plant in Oak Harbor, Ohio, disabling a safety monitoring system for nearly five hours, says the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Three-quarters of Lazard's revenues are paid back in compensation, a fact that caused much of the initial strife between Wasserstein and Michel David-Weill , scion of the family who founded the firm and the leader of the capitalist group.
If Labour were being led by David - not Ed - Miliband the party would probably be using this conference to underline the lessons learned from Labour's past, to indicate how the party could be trusted with the nation's purse strings again and to reinforce that the next Labour government was likely to have to make painful choices of its own.
In the end, they chose a play that was not on the shortlist - David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole, about a wealthy, suburban couple whose son is struck by a car and killed.
Twenty-year-old David Ben-Alisha(ph) from the Jewish settlement of Effrat will be joining the army soon.
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