If the Republicans do seize control of Congress at this year's mid-terms, an important part of the reason will be the ways in which their state-level legislators redrew the lines in big states like Texas, Ohio and Florida after the census of 2000.
As self-described foodies, they noticed the big lines for crepe joints in Vegas, Breckenridge, Colo.
Big developments in long-distance transmission lines, which are promised, could be most valuable of all.
Convinced that its success had come by focusing on engineering, the company continued to invest in each of these lines of business as if they each had to be the next big thing in their category, instead of turning these devices into a platform on which consumers could build their lives and on which digital partners could create and deliver new value.
All the classic signs are there: you can eat buffet dinners all 52 weeks a year at Big Data conferences, Big Data tag lines are now common in emails from industry analysts, and even investment bankers are tossing around the phrase.
Lines in the sea, once drawn by big powers, are now subject to reasoned debate.
Dow also got into prescription drugs with big investments in the Richardson-Merrell and Marion drug lines but encountered more disappointment than growth.
We're seeing numbers that she has got to win an extraordinary amount of votes in the big states - Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania - something along the lines of 65 percent to 35 percent to get the amount of delegates that she needs.
The Massachusetts-based conglomerate was already a big player in military electronics, but generated much of its revenues from other lines such as Beechcraft business jets, Amana appliances, and academic publishing.
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Big American names such as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein manufacture their cheaper lines in countries with lower labour costs, but they invariably have their top range sewn up in Italy.
At the very top of the resort, 9990 offers some hearty steep fall lines and a big north-facing slope that stays cold and dry even in the late spring.
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Claflin agreed that, after three years bad years in corporate spending on tech, there's lots of pressure for fewer companies to offer big product lines.
The top bands played there -- the Big Three, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes -- and the lines would start forming hours in advance of the doors opening, says Best.
Sure, some of the big news was the integrated EV-DO in HP's nc6140 notebook, but some of the older lines get some freshness too.
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"We knew we wanted a modern house with big open spaces, clean lines, and lots of light, which is pretty hard to find in this city unless you build it yourself, " says Ms. Dobranski.
Now there is growing concern that a really big storm might collapse much of the global electric grid, particularly in places with long high-voltage transmission lines such as Australia, Canada, China and the United States.
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