Lions wait in ambush, with scavengers such as hyenas and jackals eying good pickings.
There will be room for Fidelity Investments and Citicorp, too, but the pickings won't be easy.
But it was all slim pickings and even the Labour front bench seemed less than engaged.
Of course, there are plenty of con artists who find easy pickings among the gullible.
He said cyberspace was providing "rich pickings", with UK defence contractors also being targeted.
Better yet, the pickings have gotten better since the dot-com fallout in 2001 and 2002.
Internships and work placements can provide much richer pickings for young people from well-educated, well-connected families.
Pickings are getting slimmer since 40% of large companies now offer benefits to unmarried live-in couples.
The pickings that were left in a 20-mile radius were either too expensive or too shabby.
He sidestepped questions about what would happen if he returned from future summits with thin pickings.
Stock pickers have had slim pickings, especially retail investors restricted to ADRs trading on the NYSE.
With Turkey going through an economic, political and cultural transformation, there are rich pickings for film-makers.
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Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people )may have been reasonably easy pickings.
Crematoria have proved particularly rich pickings since a 1995 edict that encouraged local authorities to sell them.
You see how they become easy pickings for people who have snake-oil merchants for solving all their problems.
But some experts believe pickings could be slim as thirsty birds desert traditional moorland and head for water.
The pickings are good, he says, with more experimental biotech drugs in late-stage human testing than ever before.
It was easy pickings, Herzog told journalists at a news conference Wednesday ahead of the museum's public opening Saturday.
The best pickings among what is left of industry mines and utilities would have to be sold off, probably to foreigners.
But with over 75% of America's privately insured employees already in managed-care plans, there are few corporate pickings left.
Still, there are juicy pickings to be had from loan-sharking to destitute gamblers.
But for teams looking to add reasonable production while shoring up their bottom lines, the pickings aren't all that slim.
The year is 1989, the place is West Germany, and the pickings could not be riper, or easier to pluck.
Looking for easy pickings, the IRS knows that the new rules will trip up taxpayers in a certain percent of cases.
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For good reason: With the huge savings rate here, there are rich pickings for money managers with modern technology and marketing savvy.
Its retail pickings are slim, and for decades it was dry, too.
The market exists for both, individual pickings as well as all-you-can-eat models and Comcast seems to be positioned to capitalize on both.
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After that, pickings could be slim at the track for Team GB.
But the big jailer's left-arm spin looked easy pickings until Sangakkara holed out on the boundary at the start of his second spell.
When Aimar played a short ball to Di Maria, Marouane Fellaini dawdled in defence and another smart cross proved easy pickings for Cardozo.
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