Investors with a speculative streak would pump money into these super-minor-league teams, hoping they could make the leap into the big time, thereby substantially increasing the value of franchises.
And then there was Richard Nixon mandating a national 55-mph speed limit to help conserve gas in response to the OPEC oil embargo, which served to make everyone at the time driving a big V8-powered car grumpy (and subsequently helped reduce traffic fatalities).
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Senator Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, had reason to be comfortable in seeking to make some big-time news before the GAO report had been made available.
Buy the right ones at the right time and make big money.
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But activists say the controversial shake-up of the NHS in England has failed to win over the public and health professionals and would be disruptive at a time the NHS is having to make big savings.
Titles like Guild Wars 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic are slated to make big splashes in the MMO arena, and it might be time for Blizzard to start rewarding loyal players with new and useful features, rather than charging for them.
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But now that all media has been digitized in one way or another, digital is the most competitive brand battleground and you see that playing out in the sheer volume of big brands that spend massive time and effort to make an impact on the digerati in attendance.
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Distinguishing between those and the 20% that make really big money takes time.
It may be foolish to suggest that either Nokia or RIM could make big market share inroads against the smartphone giants any time soon, but 2013 could very well be the first time in a long while that both will finally have a competitive presence in the smartphone market.
This time, the news is about a big-time partnership with American Express that aims to make purchases as easy as a hashtag, tapping into the still nascent, but growing, social side of e-commerce.
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But this also is a treacherous time to make a big bet on the retail industry, which is battling headwinds from a weak economy, competition from online shopping and overbuilding during the boom years.
Part of the time has been defense, but there also comes a time where you've got to make a big pitch or you've got to get a big hit.
Against that backdrop the NHS chief executive, David Nicholson, has said for a long time that the NHS will need to make big efficiency savings "in order to stand still" over the coming years.
The deal will allow Sirius to make a big marketing push at holiday time, traditionally a big selling period for satellite radio.
Still, Susan Urahn, managing director of the Pew Centre on the States, argues that small reforms can make a big difference over time.
"He would make a big funny loop off the usual route and we knew it was time to start locking down on him, " she said.
Glendening, a former teacher and the first in his family to attend college, noted that with "tax cuts in place and funded" the state could make a big difference by making a large one-time investment in education, specifically school construction.
Simple changes made now, like raising the retirement age by just a year, could make a big difference over time.
Now, in just 15 days, Ohio, starting on October 2nd, you will have one big choice to make -- I think the clearest choice of any time in a generation.
The idea is to use the types of big data already gleaned from smart phones to help make real-time decisions.
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Mr Esteves is only 41, giving him plenty of time to oversee the push into the big league and to make a fortune twice.
Paul goes on to make a pretty big deal over how Ron had a part-time job painting the school during a summer holiday and delivering furniture for a store.
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He says he learned those skills with the management consultancy McKinsey, and says he tries to spend most of his time on the five to 10 really big things that will make a big difference to his companies.
The bottom line is that I believe Kairos fellows have what it takes to make it big time because they have been proving so.
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If 3-D can make up for that lost revenue, it will make a big different to the major studios which are divisions of big public companies like Disney, Time Warner, News Corp.
If you only have the time-- and stamina-- for one big night out, make sure it's at Fabric (77a Charterhouse Street, Farringdon).
Someone had tried, some time ago, to make it pretty, so there were big photographs in the hall of children at various sorts of play, and some of these were diverting, she supposed.
When you come out and you have a community of support that encourages you to use your time well to make little steps that turn into big steps, you see the hope there.
It will be interesting to see if he is right, and if Apple, who first made its name through the elegance of its space-based interfaces will make its next big move into ones based on time.
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Look for the team to make him a starting pitcher down the road, once he accumulates the service time needed to command a big raise.
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