At the top we straddled two countries, standing with one foot in Poland, the other in Slovakia.
HP's 3Com deal is the latest in a series that have straddled computing and networking.
"Prairie Lullaby" is the work of Billy Hill, whose career straddled the old West as well as Broadway.
As I mingled with Ramneeq I noticed he, like other younger Indians, straddled both the modern and traditional worlds.
Afterwards she went straight to hug her friend Lindsey Vonn, the American who straddled a gate and went out early.
At Credit Suisse First Boston the Chinese wall separating investment bankers from analysts was straddled by a single boss, Frank Quattrone.
Many investors straddled with fees exceeding three percent may be lucky to find even their principal intact when it comes time to retire.
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Because I am a Chinese native and American citizen, I have straddled two cultures and lived at the crossroads of the East and West.
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He straddled the line between financial adviser and portfolio manager.
The man dragged the bike away, straddled it, and tried to start it, bobbing up and down, pitching his weight onto the lever, the engine whirring but not catching.
At Credit Suisse First Boston (nyse: CSR - news - people ), the Chinese wall separating investment bankers from analysts was straddled by a single boss, Frank Quattrone .
Sir Robert Ho Tung, a powerful half-English magnate whose commercial empire straddled Shanghai and Hong Kong, commissioned a Shanghai home from Mr. Hudec, who gave it a south-facing porch with graceful Ionic columns.
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Similarly, audit committees straddled with the Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for 100% independence, financial literacy, and at least one financial expert have a tendency in some companies to become busy committees full of busy audit committee members.
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Svindal, the downhill winner, saw his chances go when he straddled a gate in the mid-section of a treacherous course, while Kostelic was disappointed he could not capitalize on a storming earlier run in the downhill.
Connors straddled a magnificent run of tennis history, playing against Laver, Rosewall, Newcombe, Ashe, McEnroe, Borg, Becker, and Lendl, among others a period of dynamic revolution in on-court strategy and technology (Connors, of course, long holding out with his trusty fly-swatter, the Wilson T-2000).
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