He is instead keen on a grouping of the big five, adding Britain, Italy and Spain.
He says he would break the big five unions' statutory stranglehold on representation in companies.
The big five banks snapped up the leading stockbroking firms in the 1990s, becoming universal banks.
Still, there is no guarantee that the Big Five are about to become the Big Four.
The best way to accomplish that could be an association with one of the big five.
The area is famous for the so-called Big Five: lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and the Cape Buffalo.
Yet adding lawyers may make the big five firms even harder to run than they are already.
The big five SOE banks saw loan defaults rise quarter over quarter for the first time since 2005.
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All the big five movie studios have told Google to remove Android apps that "pirate" content, reports Reuters.
Netflix is hoping to take a bite out of that population tuning away from the "Big Five" broadcast networks.
It is not just lawyers who are upset at the Big Five's plans.
If you are lucky you can check off the Canadian Rockies' Big Five animal sightings: deer, elk, moose, wolf and bear.
Dole has challenged the body politic to disregard vocal constituencies by reallocating funds from the "Big Five" to other worthy recipients.
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He could re-up with BMG, dump it in favor of a rival or spurn the Big Five altogether and challenge them head-on.
Outside the big five, in Scotland the big two, Celtic and Rangers, accounted for 67% of Scottish Premier League clubs' total revenues.
As at end March 2011, the Big Five provided custody for 16.9 percent of total of brokerage industry individual customer equity holdings.
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Lyle was part of Europe's "Big Five" generation in the 1980s and 1990s alongside Woosnam, Nick Faldo, Seve Ballesteros and Bernhard Langer.
Still, over the last five years the company has been the most adventuresome--at least by number of exploratory wells drilled--of the Big Five.
In order to remedy the U.S.-Japan trade imbalance in 1985, the big five industrial nations agreed to depreciate the dollar against the yen.
The EU's "big five" (the large members: UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) currently have two European Commissioners each, while others have just one.
Then there are the more or less shadowy plans by members of the Big Five currently without a mobile phone OS to their name.
Game is absurdly plentiful here: We saw the Big Five on our first evening, including a pair of lions who began mating loudly in front of us.
It was a good day for the other big five brokerage firms, too, as Morgan Stanleyrose 4.3%, Goldman Sachs was lifted 2.4%, and Lehman Brothers increased 3.3%.
Meanwhile, on the wider European picture, of the "big five" leagues - England, Germany, Italy, Spain and France - all but Ligue 1 in France saw growth.
Despite disagreement about how to tackle globalisation, there is universal agreement that the big five accounting firms represent little threat, except in the specialist area of tax advice.
After the new policy takes effect this week, the big five banks have all set their one year savings deposit rates at 3.5%, unchanged from before the move.
In Britain, the Big Five's plans to limit liability for their mistakes or negligence met with opposition from their investment-banking and venture-capitalist clients, who complained to the competition authorities.
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