But Ali Parsa, Circle's chief executive, worries that the requirements imposed by Monitor, the health regulator, on those seeking to compete with NHS services have now become so demanding that only a state-backed company or very large private group could satisfy them.
For this reason, it is risky for any senior without long-term care insurance or very large assets to make gifts of any amount, even to charity, because it might jeopardize their ability to enter into nursing home care at any time during the following five years.
Or about single companies and their narrow events, information that might be relevant to one or two very large shareholders but almost nobody else.
This is a business that is meant to bring a product or service to a very large market.
We get yet another chance to determine if the Fed and its foreign counterparts are superhuman saviors of all things economic, or simply bunglers with very large pocketbooks that have staved off but not reduced the chances of a tremendous economic and market correction.
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This is especially true at very large and very small scales (think astronomy or particle physics), but also liminal spaces or large sociotechnical systems that cannot be experienced completely or directly (think cyberspace, but also large infrastructure systems like power grids, interstrate highway systems, etc.).
It is a choice between favoring the broadband designs of a small handful of very large companies or safeguarding the dreams of thousands of inventors, entrepreneurs, and small businesses.
But it may still be worthwhile to Apple to find a way, perhaps by demanding a very large check or by getting Samsung to back off on other patent claims vs.
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In a very large-framed or muscular person like you, BMI may overestimate body fat.
GDP, the region's total of 48 countries contains very few large, diverse or industrial economies.
As the chart below shows, the number of employees in a business has a very large effect on whether or not the company offers employee health insurance.
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As it is, if I want my scouts to attack only Ion Frigates, I might have to select a very large group of mixed enemies or attack one frigate at a time.
He doesn't know anything about what's going - I mean, the number of people on this commission who have zero expertise or even pretended expertise in these matters is very large, and Alan Simpson is one of them.
While it is true that there is very little emphasis on gift-giving or large-scale consumer purchases during this time, there are nevertheless some trading ideas for this holiday, as with most holidays.
"We don't get whales all that often, maybe six or seven a year - but this one is a very large one, " she said.
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But when the potential recovery on a dubious theory is substantial (either because of pressures to settle or because there is a very small chance of a very large recovery), most lawyers will hesitate before fronting litigation costs.
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There are economies of scale in oversight: While 10 or 20 basis points spent on oversight costs for a very large institutional investor might be prudent, that may be woefully inadequate for a smaller entity that is pursuing a high equity and highly diversified strategy.
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There are many theories -- for instance, that the first stars were very large and exploded into black holes, or that gas collapsed into itself, but none of these ideas really fit, said Fulvio Melia, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Arizona, who was not involved with the Chandra study.
But the fact is that very few folks are comfortable speaking to large (or even small) groups of strangers.
It has long been a staple of the economics profession that large sporting events do not, or at least very rarely do, make money for the places that host them.
The corporation sole form can also serve the needs of a very small church or religious society, just as well as a large diocese.
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Obviously, one of the things that we discussed with the President this morning, you have shipping channels that could soon -- the area of the spill could soon be in a very large shipping channel, and the ramifications that may or may not have as well.
For very large creditors, like major banks, credit card companies or utilities, the process can (and should) be extensive.
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"The entire movement is one large crescendo that lasts six or seven minutes, that starts very low, in the basses where it's barely audible, " O'Connor says.
Special circuitry enables very low power consumption but large amplified power output from a PC or Mac USB connection.
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Very large coronal mass ejections are thought to happen every 500 years or so (the most recent was in 1859).
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The best approach is probably to buy supplements from a pharmacy, health food store, qualified health care professional such as medical or naturopathic doctor, or from a large retail chain such as Whole Foods Market, which has very rigid standards for evaluating all supplements that its stores carry.
But there is a very large difference between a work of fiction, and what Rand argued for or espoused in her articles and philosophical works.
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If the cash were returned to investors, they could decided how they wanted to invest that cash, ie conservatively or aggressively, as they wish rather than putting their faith into Apple to run this very large portfolio.
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In your New Year's message, you spoke about the very, very large number of British soldiers, service people who have died out there already or been maimed.
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