In those two weeks I would go to restaurants -- I would pick three or four big ones that would cost a lot of money.
The answer is to move the supervision and support of banks (or at least big ones) away from national regulators to European ones.
The gestures could be either big ones like arm waving, or subtle ones like tapping your finger on your thigh or coffee table.
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Put bluntly, Russian businesses, or at least the big ones, will at best have much higher tax bills and lower profits in future.
Cephalon's five-year annualized sales growth of 102% makes it the fastest-growing biotech in the U.S. (after weeding out tiny firms or ones with big problems) and the sixth fastest-growing tech company overall.
You have to admire the optimism at some pharmaceutical companies, where people seem to believe that all human problems, or at least some really big ones, can be solved with the right prescription.
There are unbroken ones, like bubbles or boils, small ones, ones as big as half a soccer ball.
Until then, tourists eager for free museum admission should bypass big cities for smaller, lesser-known ones, or otherwise target free and affordable options in big cities like the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC (which uniquely have free admission as a national trust).
Until then, tourists eager for free museum admission should bypass big cities for smaller, lesser-known ones, or otherwise target free and affordable options in big cities like the Smithsonian museums in Washington DC (which uniquely has free admission as a national trust).
Whereas a majority of continental companies with huge pension schemes already use international financial-reporting standards or similar American ones, lots of big British companies are in the process of switching standards.
But liberals (blue state and big city ones especially--or what Forbes.com columnist Joel Kotkin calls the "liberal gentry") appear to know little about conservatives.
The high cost of technology and the gains it promises are now tipping the balance more firmly in the direction of the very big ones and against small regional or community banks.
With GPS you often have to keep downloading and installing the courses you are playing on each trip, or even with the ones that have a big library, the course has to be mapped to begin with.
The same duty would fall on big international Italian companies in Italy, or Spanish ones in Spain, and so on.
Moreover, says Adrian Beney of More Partnership, a fund-raising consultancy, such gifts are often essential for capital projects: small donations typically cover running costs, big ones pay for new wings in galleries or hospitals.
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They don't have to wait their turn to speak, and the ones with small voices or introverted personalities can convey big, profound, touching emotions.
Or taken down a block of guest rooms--leaving 44 big ones, plus 19 boxy casitas--rather than adding more to increase revenue?
Darryl Sterling, an analyst at the Yankee Group, a telecom consulting firm in Boston, expects the December auction to draw some interest from big carriers seeking to fill in gaps in national coverage or lesser ones trying to expand in small markets.
Indeed, as shown by a simple yet nifty study by Marc Orlitzky, recently published in Business Ethics Quarterly, articles published on this topic in Management journals report a statistical relationship between the two variables which is about twice as big as the ones reported in Economics, Finance, or Accounting journals.
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But for poor and rural ones, big stores are either non-existent, or frequently beaten out by local producers for seasonal foods.
Since the double ballot encourages people to split their vote, backing a small party for the Knesset and the Labour or Likud candidate for prime minister, both big parties lost votes to smaller ones in the 1996 election, and are likely to lose even more next time.
To get rental data for homes comparable to the one you're buying or selling, check with the relocation department of big real estate agencies, the ones that need to track down living space for executives on temporary transfers.
First, says Mr Mandel, economic growth is increasingly driven by big ecosystems such as the ones that cluster around Apple's iPhone or Google's Android operating system.
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Paul: I think there is tremendous opportunity in the e-commerce industry in China, but I do believe there will emerge only couple big platforms during the next 3 years, with the smaller ones being acquired or folding.
Firms want to know three things: whether big storms are becoming more or less common, whether certain coasts are being hit more or less often, and just how frequent are the biggest of the big storms the ones whose effects could break a careless insurance outfit.
One thing you do is spend more time worrying about the big decisions -- in stocks or out, in Japan or out, in long bonds or short ones -- than you do worrying about individual stocks.
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