The announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was the closest any official has come to giving a firm date.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, or Fedecafe, isn't giving a firm forecast for next year's crop, saying estimates are hard to make given the large amount of rain that came down this winter.
Graying veterans giving a firm salute.
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To give a populist such as Mr Livingstone a mandate such as this is like giving Archimedes a firm place to stand: he will try to use it to lever the whole of British politics to the left perhaps even eventually to challenge Mr Blair's grip on the Labour Party.
Instead of having to remove and insert the ammo cartridge, giving it a firm jab suffices.
The niche markets for crystal fibres are still attractive for a small firm, giving it a foot in the door before large manufacturers such as Lucent and Corning really get going.
Giving workers shares in a firm may have commercial benefits.
As it is, taking the project away from a successful private firm, AirAsia, and giving it to a government-owned monopoly hardly seems reason for cheer.
The fact that federal loan guarantees were even necessary for Solyndra tells us that few, if any, lenders thought that giving the firm money was a very good idea.
This is about branding their name so that it is seen not only by more people but adds value by giving the site and firm a prime location from which to be seen , thats the word here location .
Mr Basescu attacked the government for giving a road contract to a French firm without an open tender, and wants it reviewed.
We are a niche firm dedicated to giving people peace in their financial life so they can do great things in the world.
Early in the design process, Arad was teamed with the landscape architect Peter Walker, who shares his minimalist sensibility, and they have made the space around the two footprints a handsome and restrained civic square, with oak trees, benches, and light poles giving the place a kind of quiet, firm order.
He's ceased to be an adviser to a private equity firm, and given up a directorship at Compass catering group, while also giving up his cancer charity role.
He stands accused of giving away public land and taking money from a mining firm.
Domestic audiences appeared to like "Into Darkness, " giving it an average grade of A, according to market research firm CinemaScore.
They saw one giant name in America's computing history - or at least its mobile division - swallowed up by another, and a firm with an even more prestigious past effectively giving up on personal and mobile computing.
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Even though he promised that the nationalization would not take the form of expropriations or confiscations, he ordered the military and engineers of YPFB, the state firm, to occupy energy installations, giving foreign companies a six-month period to renegotiate contracts, or face expulsion.
Before giving up their old jobs, the founders of innocent, a British drinks firm formed in 1998, sold an initial batch of smoothies from a market stall in London.
One of the most celebrated cases is that of Igor Sutyagin, a former researcher at the Institute of the U.S.A. and Canada who was sentenced to 15 years in a labor camp for giving supposedly secret information to Alternative Futures, an English consulting firm.
"Shell will apply its advanced technology, operational expertise and global experience in the project to jointly develop the shale gas resources with CNPC, " the Anglo-Dutch firm said in a release on its website on 20 March, without giving any further details.
This market is proving that there is a firm bid underneath the surface, but the day you start getting sloppy and giving things too much room could be the day we end up getting a more significant pullback.
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Now, it's giving landlines the ability to send and receive texts without the need for a new number, which the firm says is a first.
Simon Crosby, the firm's technology chief, likens this to giving away an engine in order to sell a car around it.
Yes, a firm can restrict access to its website in other ways for example, by giving passwords only to customers who claim to be from countries where it has regulatory blessing.
Among the names floating about in recent days is Laurence Fink, head of the investment management firm BlackRock, which took over Merrill Lynch Investment Management earlier this year in return for giving Merrill a 49% stake.
In a page-one article Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Haim Bodek, who helped run a high-frequency trading firm, told SEC enforcement officials last year that he believed exchanges were giving certain sophisticated trading firms special advantages that helped them beat out other investors.
In a congressional hearing in February, Blankfein tried to explain that the firm acts on behalf of clients, giving them what they want.
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