By acquiring the comic-book company Disney, in one swoop, filled the young-male gap in its audience, which had lost ground with the success of its Hanna Montana franchise, as well as other female-oriented products.
All in all, a surprising set of announcements for Big Red -- in one fell swoop, it's gone from the most locked-down carrier being at least on par with the GSM networks, and potentially even more flexible if these pricing plans actually pan out.
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As it would turn out, Barclays would soon after swoop in post-bankruptcy and keep huge chunks of the Lehman franchise intact.
If you hang around long enough, a propeller-driven aircraft -- probably bringing holidaymakers from the Red Sea resort of Eilat -- will swoop in low for a landing, passing so close you may feel the urge to reach out and touch it.
Ross sends his mascot, "Swoop, " a goofy-looking bird in a Talons jersey, to schools.
Either Sony needs to swoop in with some serious first-party muscle, or this system is going to fizzle.
That would still be below the heyday for distressed-debt investors, who swoop in when others flee and buy debt that converts to equity once a company emerges from bankruptcy.
It is expected to deliver microscopic samples from Comet Wild-2, which it will swoop near in 2004, as well as interstellar particles captured near the asteroid belt.
More worrisome is the prospect that a competitor could swoop in and grab employees from Take-Two's sports franchises and start cranking out football and basketball games on their own.
The failure to adopt radical new policies to jump-start the economy and in one fell swoop to resolve the insolvent bank situation by ridding the overhang of toxic bad paper "increases the risk of a further dramatic equity sell-off, " says Christopher Wood, CLSA emerging markets analyst.
Some small-market owner will cash out, and Jordan will swoop in as managing partner of an ownership group.
One of these peers might then swoop in and make a better offer, leaving Petronas empty-handed.
Seventeen people were arrested in a similar swoop last year, the most high-profile of which was Atalanta captain Cristiano Doni.
Thousands of old and already-installed systems are in place but can't be updated in one fell swoop.
Both men were arrested in dawn raids by officers from the National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU)and were among 12 men arrested in a worldwide swoop covering 10 countries.
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