Sentences with phrase «whose big case»

He'd brought in a client whose big case was keeping 8 partners and 30 associates busy for months.

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The other issue that faces all companies is, as you get to a large enough size, there are people whose job it is to protect business lines — they're just doing their job — but this is the classic case of «The Innovator's Dilemma,» the famous business book, which says that when companies ultimately fail, whether it's Polaroid or whoever, it's not because they were big and dumb; it's because they were actually really smart.

Or at least that seems to be the case for many men, whose emotional lives are played out on big screen TVs and twenty - four hour media coverage of everything athletic.

In this case, the losers happen to be the majority of Australia's farmers, and the big winners have been Australia's two major supermarkets, whose market share has more than doubled since the mid-1970s.

That certainly seems to be the case with KRC Genk's prodigious 18 - year - old winger, Bailey, whose performances in the Belgian top - flight this term have attracted attention from a host of scouts, watching on behalf of Europe's biggest clubs.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

We started Retraction Watch in 2010, and every year since then, we've witnessed at least a few cases big enough to warrant headlines: anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii, record holder for retractions at 183; Diederik Stapel, whose groundbreaking social psychology work was almost entirely fabricated; Joachim Boldt, the German critical - care specialist and previous retraction record holder.

Judd plays Jessica Shepard, a new homicide detective in San Francisco whose first big assignment comes in trying to solve a potential serial killer case.

OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening October 24, 2008 BIG BUDGET FILMS Changeling (R for profanity, violence and disturbing content) Clint Eastwood directs this psychological thriller, set in L.A., inspired by events arising in 1928 during a real life case involving a single - mom (Angelina Jolie) whose hopes for the safe return of her kidnapped nine year - old (Gattlin Griffith) were seemingly answered but then dashed when she realized that the boy brought to her was not her son.

Bill Pullman returns as the former President, whose tendency to make big speeches at any opportunity is comic relief of the unintentional variety (and who, in case one needs the reminder, was also once a hotshot fighter pilot).

The campaign to take on The System and its schools also enjoyed the services of a handful of intellectual spokesmen whose written works outline a case against education bureaucracy that remains brilliant in many small ways, if repulsive in several big ones.

The fact that the AFT affiliate, like its counterparts in other districts, have the advantage of bodies on the ground — and in the case of race between Zimmer and Anderson, used it to their advantage — is another reminder that the school reform movement must do a better job of building grassroots support, especially among the 11.7 million single - parent families for whose children the failures of big - city districts such as L.A. Unified prove to weigh most - heavily.

This is particularly the case in the Astra, whose compact form makes it feel more edgy here than both the bigger Vectra (which remains well composed even when really pushed) and the mighty Monaro (which feels surprisingly relaxed thanks to its long stride).

I know authors whose books, rejected by the editors (or the marketers) of Big Publishing Houses, that have sold quite well thru amazon and other e-tailers, in some cases netting them six figures a year.

This was the same conclusion reached by the judge in the collusion case, whose reading of Big 5 CEO emails showed a willingness to erode Amazon's market share at any cost, even to themselves.

And when I contacted the auction's owner to ask for an interview, he was welcoming and spent an entire day with me, talking openly about his personal history, his current business practices and even taking me to meet the types of breeders he respects — breeders whose dogs, when I got to their commercial - scale farms, were running and playing in spaces as big as many suburban backyards and even ballfields, dogs who came up to me to say hello and, in most cases, seemed just as happy and normal and healthy as my own two spoiled mutts at home.

This is especially the case with reptiles, whose heating needs can be difficult to establish in even some big tanks.

One of the first big energy stories I covered for Breitbart was the incredible true story of how Chevron Oil fought off a $ 9.5 billion damages case filed on behalf of Ecuadorean natives whose lands had supposedly been polluted as a result of Chevron's negligence.

In select cases, Mr. Hart also travels to the islands of Kauai, Maui and Hawaii (the Big Island) to provide services to clients whose cases arise in those jurisdictions.

Even if you have the cleanest possible bill of health — even if you're a non-smoking, non-drinking personal trainer whose biggest medical scare was that case of chicken pox back in the third grade — you could still be charged a slightly higher rate based on any potentially serious illnesses experienced by your parents or siblings.