"They took a large bottom-line loss that will make them more profitable going forward, " Ticonderoga Securities analyst Chris Allen says of the firm's accelerated write-offs on sign-on bonuses.
On the back wheel: the small sprocket is top gear, the large sprocket is bottom.
Productivity is still delivering an increased standard of living, albeit with big gaps in who gets the benefits and a large hole at the bottom.
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The pay difference between the top and the bottom in large corporations has expanded tremendously since the early 1980s (roughly speaking, it has gone from 100 to 1 to 500 to 1).
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Generously cover the bottom of a large frying pan with olive oil and place over a high heat.
The recent rising bottom formed a large wedge, and the short declining topsline and a smaller wedge within a wedge has been broken.
The usual shareholder-owned-fund sponsors charge big fees and take a large fraction of them to their bottom lines.
The bottom line: A large population, a large labor force, and a dose of markets may be the necessary condition for leading the global economy.
Undeniably, America's economic prosperity depends primarily on a strong and large middle class growing from the bottom up, and for the 30 years following the end of the World War II, business, labor and government leaders commonly understood this and committed themselves to such an outcome.
Eventually the younger fisherman spotted their net, entangled were flounder, pike-perch, bream and one very large carp, all tossed into the bottom of the boat, flapping and gasping.
But social mobility has increased too, and a disproportionately large number of the winners came from the bottom of the social heap.
Looking round for my tiger, I found that he had sneaked into a large empty den that stood open at the bottom of the yard.
The ecology of the oceans is all about who eats what, and small changes in the population of certain creatures near the bottom of the web could have large effects on larger ones that eat them.
The home screen looks like standard Android, save for some tweaks, including large book icons and a bar at the bottom with links to the Kobo Shop, your current reading selection, the library, a full app list and the so-called Reading Life social feature.
In between scenes of Wahlberg in action, praise for him flashes above a large Twitter logo with Twitter handles tucked in the bottom right corner.
Prahalad gained wide acclaim in business circles for his 2004 book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, which challenges large, established companies to come up with innovative business ideas to serve the rising classes in developing countries.
Comprising a large front screen surrounded by screens on the top, bottom, left, and right, the system engulfs visitors on five sides with detailed life-like images in a new kind of image space.
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The bottom line: It takes much more than a large labor force and a dose of markets to become No 1 in the global economy.
The bottom line: This year Congress is running a large "bonus depreciation" special on cars weighing more than 6, 000 pounds, such as the Cadillac Escalade and Nissan Armada.
Lin's breakout campaign had a large part in swiftly improving the Madison Square Garden network's bottom line.
As the first really big acquisition of an enterprise 2.0 business it also validates the bottom-up sales model which Yammer pioneered on a large scale.
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The bottom line is that Rackspace is a contender in a large and growing technology trend, with substantial competition, and has managed to maintain growth and earnings.
"There is a very large, wide-ranging investigation underway to try to get to the bottom of a number of issues, " Morrell said.
During the depths of the 2008 crisis, when it looked as if the bottom might really fall out of the Russian economy, a large number of (in retrospect totally unfeasible) proposals for radical economic liberalization were bandied about but little ever came of them.
The bottom line, according to the experts: People who take unusually large deductions for their income get a high score.
The urge to eat to the bottom of a bag appears to wane when a package is so large it is clearly not a single serving size, Dr. Geier says.
With traditional harvesting, fishermen use large metal rakes towed by boats to dredge up wild oysters embedded along the bay bottom.
Issuance of these loans exploded just before the crisis, as buyout firms launched ever-larger takeovers and banks engaged in a destructive race to the bottom, ceding a huge amount of power to borrowers and ending up with large losses.
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When Obama and his supporters refer to income inequality, they are taking a complex set of economic and social issues and boiling them down to a single data point: how large is the difference between the annual incomes of top earners compared with those on the bottom of the income scale.
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What you will find, however, is a large vent sitting right behind the display -- a trade-off for having a perfectly smooth bottom side.
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