Philips filled it with big-ticket medical equipment like magnetic resonance imagers, CT scanners and X-ray devices.
He thought it was time to give people some big-ticket items to buy with them.
Sometimes, a well-thought out gift is better than just throwing money at a big-ticket item.
Another strategy: Accelerate any big-ticket business-related purchases into that crucial year to reduce reported income.
It is a marked contrast to the big-vision, big-ticket stuff that was long an Oracle mainstay.
Consumers, finally, are taking on some debt for big-ticket purchases at low interest rates.
Consumer confidence plunged sharply in February, not a positive for big-ticket purchases going forward.
This has left them more dependent on big-ticket items that fall disproportionately during a slowdown.
The big-ticket spending behind that kind of transformation can only come from government spending, and government policies.
There is concern among some developers that too much big-ticket supply is arriving over a short period.
Almost all transactions are between businesses for big-ticket items such as tractors and trainloads of raw materials.
But those that sell big-ticket items, such as cars and appliances, have more reason to be nervous.
The prospect of higher interest rates would encourage more people to buy homes, cars, or other big-ticket items.
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But the economy was still doing very well because people were buying big-ticket items like homes on credit.
Benedict communicated to the world with a tweet every few days, regular holiday messages, and two big-ticket encyclicals.
That is of tremendous importance with respect to the foreign sales of big-ticket U.S. items, like commercial aircraft.
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Weekend buyers of big-ticket items such as lamps and chairs have been replaced by tourists, many just browsing.
Nearly every big-ticket item that Americans consume is paid for with borrowed money, with foreign lenders supplying the credit.
But it will not treat the deployment of smart meters in its jurisdiction any different from other big-ticket items.
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In Brazil, sales of big-ticket items like cars have risen 80% since 2005.
Several districts noted that consumers had reduced outlays on discretionary and big-ticket items.
That used to be a bulwark of Obama's presidency, which offset the unpopularity of several of Obama's big-ticket policies.
That would put a damper on the easy credit many Americans have accessed to buy homes and other big-ticket items.
Russians and Chinese enjoy attention for their big-ticket purchases but Mermelstein says investors are now coming from other countries too.
Certain transactions, including gasoline, airline tickets, jewelry and other big-ticket items, are more likely to be flagged than restaurant charges.
He wants to see spending - particularly at the European level - on big-ticket projects like infrastructure and energy technology.
But more important are the really big-ticket items that are likely to face much tougher scrutiny under the new regime.
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But the future shape of the defense business still depends on who wins or loses competitions to build big-ticket weapons.
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Most sales will be big-ticket items like power plants and locomotives, where profit margins rise rapidly after the overhead is covered.
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