They were all under 35 and had gathered to talk money--giving it away, not making it.
Mr. RIZZO: OK. When I started coming up as a young jazz pianist in the '50s--and I'm giving my age away here--Bill Evans was the only guy on the scene who did not play in the tradition of the prevailing trend, which was hard bob gospel weird stuff.
For months, Eli Lilly (nasdaq: LLY - news - people) has been quietly giving away a one-month supply of a new version of its Prozac antidepressant that is taken once a week, as opposed to once a day or more.
Nike China invests in underground street-ball tournaments, sponsoring local rap artists to write street-ball anthems, and even designing and freely giving away customized street-ball Nike products.
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If the market demands, for example, that Cambridge motivate employees to refer friends to work here by giving away Porsches--so be it.
Decisions to avoid making right away are big real-estate transactions -- such as selling a house -- or anything that could have a material effect on savings, such as giving away money from life-insurance benefits.
The Wales Office's belief in giving away power too - well it's non-existent.
Young defender Leigh Bromby was a bit too keen to impress in the ninth minute, giving away a free-kick 20 yards out and earning himself a yellow card with a clattering challenge on Jay Bothroyd.
The cost of e-reading devices keeps dropping, and it's likely that in the next year or two companies like Amazon may be giving away basic e-readers for free (on the principle that you can make more money selling "blades" than "razors").
He was dropped on nine, and was inches away from giving mid-on a catch on 19.
It was quick and easy to form a company and, at the time, banks were practically giving away money for start-ups and the like.
Especially in America, private-equity bosses are best-known for giving their money away, not to charities, but to the rock stars they hire to play at their birthday parties.
So why are taxpayers giving away over a billion-and-a-half dollars a year in Hollywood welfare handouts, especially at a time when public schools and local governments are slashing budgets and going broke?
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Now we're giving away some more free tickets -- and this time, it's personal!
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Mozilla, which is a not-for-profit organization, is giving away Firefox OS for free.
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Without giving too much away, a near-extinct ancient race makes a cameo experience.
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Young billionaire do-gooders listen up: Giving it away is hard work.
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Others have said that most of these multi-millionaires and billionaires are giving away most of their wealth anyway and that this is nothing short of a publicity stunt.
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They tend to offer intercontinental trips only once or twice a day, and they have more confidence they can sell seats to cash-paying customers rather than giving them away for miles.
Standard PR theory would suggest the company apologize, and step up its good-works marketing, whether giving away money or running more ads touting its commitment to alternate energy research, in order to combat the bad press.
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As a bonus, we've got giveaways for everyone in the audience, plus one of the lucky attendees will walk away with that Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle we just got our hands on -- and HTC will be giving away a Droid Eris Sprint Hero as well!
Behaviorists reject the classic economic theory of human beings as ultra-rational self-interested actors and, drawing on psychology, examine the causes of seemingly irrational economic choices, such as not taking advantage of money offered in an employer-provided retirement plan or giving away more money to charity than can be explained by purely selfish motives.
Gioteck, the award-winning independent gaming accessories manufacturer, is giving gamers the opportunity to blow away any opposition with the launch of the GC-2 Wireless Controller for PS3.
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He spoke with Forbes.com about why some third-party auditors overestimate malicious clicks, the myth that Google profits from click fraud and just how the company can reassure advertisers without giving away the secrets of its click-fraud detection.
But as government-funded art centers sprang up, giving access to modern materials, the work moved away from dot painting and became more experimental -- incorporating brighter colors and a more painterly form.
The system isn't perfect, however -- in this early incarnation it can only nab 40% of transmitted data before giving itself away, and more importantly, it requires the invention of a "quantum non-demolition box" before the attacker can be anywhere but the same room as the receiver, since right now both attacker and receiver need to be using the same photon detector.
The game is action-packed and addictive, giving players tons of power-up options and lots of customization but never hiding content away behind a paywall.
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