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So it's a commendable thing for a big-gun TV presence like Food Network to highlight the issue and give these women a chance to compete, even if in an slightly exploitive way.
Martha Burk: The Food Network Broke My Heart Martha Burk 2011
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After their initial threats, all three big-gun UK cinema chains have now withdrawn plans for a boycott of Alice in Wonderland.
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The lay of the land is as follows: The big-gun manufacturers e.g., Vitra, Moroso, Magis, Kartell, etc show at the sprawling Rho fairgrounds; the Zona Tortona, inside the city, hosts established but still edgy brands like Tom Dixon, Moooi, Bisazza and Established & Sons.
The Furniture Frontline Helen Kirwan-Taylor 2011
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So it's a commendable thing for a big-gun TV presence like Food Network to highlight the issue and give these women a chance to compete, even if in an slightly exploitive way.
Martha Burk: The Food Network Broke My Heart Martha Burk 2011
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The company has responded by hiring big-gun lawyers, creating a committee to interact with police and admitting liability in some civil suits filed by phone-hacking victims.
News Corp. Girds for Battle as Probes, Lawsuits Mount Cassell Bryan-Low 2011
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NBC will try next TV season to rise like the phoenix from the ashes its Jay Leno Program Primetime To Margins Debacle, with a heady lineup of new series, starring the likes of Kathy Bates, Blair Underwood, and Jimmy Smits, that hail from big-gun producers like J.J. Abrams, Jerry Bruckheimer, David Kelley, Brian Grazer - and Conan O'Brien.
NBC picks up series from David Kelley -- and Conan O'Brien 2010
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So even though I had basically stumbled into TV and had yet to take the entire industry the least bit seriously, I understood that a big-gun at NBC -- and Browne was a Jedi Master in the ways of the Peacock, having been the executive VP of news for NBC at one point -- mentioning me in the same breath as Zucker wasn't the kind of flattery you simply shrugged off.
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Now I'm beginning to understand why Gates was Obama's only big-gun holdover from Bush's presidency.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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The one I'm seriously curious about is "Isabeau," which hasn't been performed in the US in decades, if ever, and when it was current in Italy was done by the likes of Raisa and Turner, the big-gun girls.
L'Amico Fritz sfmike 2009
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Soho the Dog: I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears
I dreamed kind Jesus fouled the big-gun gears Matthew Guerrieri 2007
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