During Christmases past, many executives merrily deferred receipt of their big year-end bonuses.
Just jump online and scroll through the hundreds of dating and personals sites that can hook you up with arm-candy for that big end-of-the-year bash.
He started his new London agency, the Red Brick Road, with five former colleagues, including three from Lowe London who left big year-end bonuses on the table to join Lowe, 66, before the end of 2005.
What about bankers in Manhattan or London who take home big year-end bonuses as a reward for having stocked their bank's vaults with the deposits of "high-net worth individuals" whose only known job has been with a government in another country?
Now at city rivals Rovers after an impressive four-year stint at Hull FC, the 25-year-old Briscoe is in scintillating form and already eyeing a big end-of-year prize.
In "Gulliver's Travels, " Swift described a vicious conflict between the Big-Enders, who ate their eggs with the big end up, and the Little-Enders, who started from the little end.
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At the core of Robinhood is a sophisticated Big Data back-end, which is based on lots of algorithms.
Yesterday VMWare announced a big move into end-user centric access and management of cloud-based applications.
We have to wait until the big-volume down days end and we start getting some upside progress on heavy accumulation.
Our major banks must refinance at year-end big traunches of debenture paper.
It is the only big maker of high-end steel products within a 500km radius of Linz and has become the biggest supplier in these new markets.
There is such a thing as a free lunch, sometimes, and it's closed-end funds trading at big discounts to net-asset value.
We cannot have Congress leave for the holidays without a solution to an issue that will bring a hardship -- potentially a big hardship to middle-class families at the end of the year.
After a dismal 1-4 stretch to end the Big East regular season, Syracuse (30-9) has won seven of its last eight games and will play Michigan (30-7) the South Regional's No. 4 seed in the national semifinals at Atlanta next Saturday.
Staying connected with customers, the press and Wall Street carries an implied threat with poor Salesforce performers: A bad run-in with a client might just end up in the big boss' in-box.
Mr. Heartthrob, Mr. Senior Football Star, Mr. Astounding Catch, from the rich, Cadillac-driving end of town where the mining-company big shots lived.
These days, Soho is one big shopping mall, with high-end fashion well represented along West Broadway between Houston and Grand streets.
The fit and finish of the TL just doesn't live up to the big boy breeches of its high-end ilk.
To help make this pill palatable to working-class investors, fund families often stress at some point there will be no big, one-time front-end load, such as the 5.75% sales charge for traditional Class A fund shares.
Hamilton earlier had a big off-track moment at the end of the long straight going into Turn 11, which saw the former world champion visiting the vast run off areas that run underneath the Yas Marina grandstands.
Around the time of his 25th birthday, Hines was asked to lead a full-size dance band at the Grand Terrace, a new ballroom being launched in Chicago, and there he would remain in residence (except for the occasional tour) until the end of the big-band era in 1945.
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Wynn is a big player in the ultra-high-end market, with more revenue per gaming table than competitors.
All big human-rights agreements concluded since the end of the second world war contain absolute bans on torture, with no exceptions.
There are no more big drugs going off-patent through the end of the decade, he wrote, and new medicines more than support the company's valuation.
Nokia will offer a diverse range of phones this year, boosting its feature phone business while betting big on Windows to propel its high-end smartphones to success.
But both are accelerating: the banking and energy sectors have been opened up already this year, and no fewer than six big sell-offs are promised by the end of March.
As the following charts show, the big spike-up in bonds at the end of 2008, which was also fueled by economic worries and a declining stock market, ended on December 18, 2008, even as worries about the economy worsened further, and almost three months before the stock market ended its severe 2007-2009 bear market (on March 10, 2009).
But most of the high-end market is filled with televisions boasting really, really big screens, mind-numbing tech specs and some sort of designer status.
The risk to the higher-end models is simply too big of a risk.
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