Already a leader in the Netherlands, it added a big slice of the French, Spanish and Italian markets when it bought 49% of Harry's, a French firm, in July.
Gate receipts necessarily shrink, the club's slice of the big TV pie is gone, and there are players to wean off Premier League salaries.
The real issue is that world smartphone and tablet growth is continuing and Apple is positioned to capture a big slice of the much larger market pie.
"It's that oven that made pizza by the slice a big deal, " Mr. Wiener says.
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These days nearly half the big buyout funds take their 20% slice from the dividend recaps before their investors break even, says Karl Hartmann, chief operating officer of Franklin Park, which advises institutional investors.
Will it enable Mr Ellison to help himself to a big slice of the industry's cake?
By taking one small slice of the big picture one can argue that the entire picture looks the same.
For the event in 2010, Beth Gallichan from Headway has once again reinvented the concept, instead of taking on the big tent of the circus - she's bringing a slice of the Wild West to the Trinity Showground.
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Will the big supermarkets take an ever-increasing slice of consumer spending?
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Henry persuasively argues that these days, business gurus have got us too focused on what has changed and we thus tend to overlook what stays the same, which is a very big slice of how we do things.
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Anecdotal evidence suggests that this pattern has endured, with the notable change that big firms are now outperforming the rest and in turn attracting a disproportionate slice of new money.
MCI's brand, marketing and billing systems with its burgeoning local-telephone operations, it might be able to take a big slice of business away from the Baby Bells.
After a year of closed-door meetings with tennis players seeking a greater say in the sport and a larger slice of Grand Slam revenues, the U.S. Open is making big changes.
It wants, and will probably get, a big slice of it whether Britain joins the single currency or not.
With hundreds of little local co-operative banks also taking a slice of the market, the four big private-sector banks have a mere 14% of deposits and 15% of loans.
If the deal goes through, it will give Toshiba a chance to capture a big slice of that spending.
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Rader says that even in a worst-case scenario, it might be possible to get the Amgen or Regeneron-Sanofi drugs approved for some limited slice of population before big studies, already started by both companies, to prove they reduce heart attacks and strokes are complete.
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Moreover, if social spending is intended as insurance against the supposed risks of freer trade, it is hard to see why in many countries such a big slice of it goes to pensioners, who gain from lower import prices but do not have jobs to lose.
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