And Disney has only just scratched the surface of how much it can wring out of The Avengers.
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Rabid as Wisconsin's Cheeseheads may be (and here the author of this article discloses that he is one of them), there is still a limit on how much money the Packers can wring out of the region.
He never forgot his experience there of being forced to wring every bit of waste out of people and procedures.
Head teachers are not, by nature, shrinking violets and many will no doubt be up for any extra autonomy they can wring out of the system.
As a result, here's how to tell when the Apple craze is about to end: Watch how much profit it can wring out of every dollar of sales.
Traditionally, the IRS has compromised tax debts only when a taxpayer offered as much as it could realistically wring out of him through forced collection, as was apparently the case with Winell.
Exactly how much cost drug companies can wring out of their balance sheets as patents expire is one of the key questions facing the pharmaceutical industry as they head over what analysts are calling the patent cliff.
If spending more on health care has no correlation with making people healthier, then there must be enormous savings that a smart government, by determining precisely which medical procedures are worth financing and which are not, could wring out of the system.
Two decades earlier Anderson had run a midwestern valve manufacturer and sold it to the compulsively efficient Emerson Electric Co. (nyse: EMR - news - people ) He never forgot his experience there of being forced to wring every bit of waste out of people and procedures.
Keep in mind that Yakushima is a place of extremes: the mountains wring every last drop of moisture from the passing clouds and the interior of the island is one of the wettest places in Japan.
Much of that money has been, er, sunk into developing buoys that are supposed to wring juice out of the raw power of the open ocean.
From a strategic standpoint, therefore, Westinghouse's broadcasting ambitions satisfy the basic rule of corporate capitalism: if you can wring more value out of an asset than anybody else, it ought to be yours.
Mr Crandell reckons profits for the big four could nearly double over the next couple of years, as they wring oil and gas out of ever-more inaccessible places.
And the screenwriters, Andrew Bergman and Robert Harling, wring fun out of fustian and keep the shallow characters on the run.
The commission was overshadowed by the draconian measures Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker was undertaking to wring inflation out of the economy.
Pfizer's case to investors has a lot to do with the company's already tremendous size, and its ability to wring efficiency out of its scale.
But wring every dollar of profit of your existing product portfolio.
Fourth-quarter earnings season has shown most companies are still laser-focused on whittling down costs to wring every ounce of profit from sluggish, or nonexistent, revenue growth.
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Card Acquisition LLC says on its website that the Sioux Falls company's Affirm credit card can help debt collectors wring profits out of seemingly lost causes.
This subject matter sounds emotionally unrelenting, and it is, but Egoyan ultimately manages to wring hopefulness out of one of the most unforgiving stories I've ever seen put on film.
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She had most of the attributes of sainthood: a dauntingly selfless life, devotion to a higher cause, rude single-mindedness, a thick skin, and a capacity to wring the withers of the rich and powerful.
Faced with an opportunity last December to wring concessions out of Brussels in return for supporting the euro-zone Fiscal Pact, he opted to make highly technical, apparently innocuous but actually implausible demands relating to the City of London, including a veto over single market financial rules.
But that old-fashioned construct is changing rapidly as technology becomes more deeply infused in every facet of business operations and almost every facet of our individual lives, and as a challenging global economy forces companies to wring new revenue out of new ideas.
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Or, just maybe, we will find a way to wring the excess out of the U.S. health care system.
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In this environment, Mr. Wren thinks investors can wring additional gains out of the market by playing shifts within the stock market.
If Dell is going to compete on price, it's hard to see how it can wring much profit out of each machine.
Having watched the music industry writhe in agony over Napster, entertainment titans quickly closed ranks to wring a buck out of the video-swapping phenomenon.
"I try to wring every possibility out of my properties, " she said, adding that a national tour of "Peter" will kick off in August.
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In addition to slashing jobs, HP said it hopes to wring cost savings out of areas such as real estate, information technology and procurement.
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