The song charted at number nine on the Big Top 40 chart, broadcast on commercial radio stations.
Circus day could stop all other commerce, as schoolchildren and businessmen took the day off to crowd under the Big Top.
Cars, and urban sprawl, also devastated the old means of drumming up excitement and a sense of community parades and the big top became meaningless in towns with no center.
Optimists hope that the big top-ups that many firms are having to make to their pension funds will be invested in the stockmarket, thereby helping the market to recover.
The circus was invented in the 1760s by a British cavalry officer, Philip Astley, who started with trick riding, moved on to "hippodrama" (plays in which horses took center stage) and established many of the basics of circuses, including brass-band marching tunes, a broad center ring and even the "big top" itself.
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Citicorp slid off the list of the top 30 big caps -- Asia again.
Viewed through the opening at the top, the big northwestern sky seems impossibly distant and small.
Deloitte is the top Big Four audit firm donor to the Society.
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Chambers laughed off an incident on the opening night when he dropped his cane during the big dance number Top Hat, White Tie and Tails.
Wilkinson is just one the big names in Top 14 giants Toulon's squad that also includes former All Black captain Tana Umaga and Argentines Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe and Felipe Contepomi.
And yet, such claims could prove potent ammunition for the pro-Europeans nevertheless, especially if endorsed by more people at the top of big companies.
That means it will soon be much more difficult for the Big East to build upon its television revenue with wealthy bowl game payouts and revenue earned through the NCAA basketball tournament (the Big East has traditionally been the top earner from tournament play).
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The league's spending, like most things in Germany, is efficient: clubs devote about 38% of revenues to player costs while the other top leagues, including the big sports leagues in the U.S., spend 50% to 70%.
The Times ran a piece about the compensation levels for the top executives at 200 big American companies, freshly updated with research from Equilar, an executive compensation data firm in Redwood City, Calif.
"We are now in the top, top league in Europe, with all the big names, " he said.
Other than that, the last team staying in the Big East to be ranked in the Top 10 at the end of the season was Louisville in 2006 when Bobby Petrino was still the head coach.
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Monster touts the ingredients taurine, ginseng, L-Carnitine and B-vitamins in big letters across the top of its tall black cans, part of an "energy blend'' the company's website says "packs a vicious punch.
Back in 2011, the House GOP released a 10-point jobs plan whose key point was a big cut in the top rate of tax to 25%.
In the fourth quarter, the average vacancy for big-box centers in the top 60 U.S. markets was 6.1%, down from a recent high of 7.4% in the first quarter of 2010, according to real-estate research firm Reis Inc.
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After an avalanche hit, the big trees stayed on top of debris, while little trees were buried.
Perhaps it is human nature that when executives reach the top of big organizations, they often become self-absorbed and remote.
All my indicators for the past weeks have been in similar conditions seen at the big, bull market top in 2007.
The Big 12 assured its top schools that they could pursue their own TV networks, and this proved too much financially for the Pac 10 to overcome.
And although Im Dong-Hyun can barely read the big letters at the top of an optician's chart, he can hit that small, yellow circle time and time again.
Craning our necks to see the front of our train nose out of a tunnel as the back of it enters, down below we spot the Trans-Canada Highway, laid on top of the original Big Hill track bed.
The problem is that there is a world of difference between what is deemed to be an appropriate reward at the top of big companies - and not just banks - and what many of you would see as appropriate.
The Hoyas dropped to 15-2 as the top seed in the Big East tournament.
His tenure at Manchester United provides the clearest demonstration that in the big business with diminishing returns that is the top of the Premier League table, money allows a club to compete for the titles but it is the manager that enables the club to win them repeatedly.
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