It was a big, and increasingly rare, political victory for the president and came after Republicans in the House of Representatives, under pressure from a vexed public, abandoned their opposition to the legislation.
With rising tuition and lagging government aid making private student loans a big and increasingly competitive business, these are some of the ways lenders are courting universities in hopes that they will steer students their way.
Jihadi militancy and terrorism have traditionally been ways of enabling Pakistan to stand up to a bigger and increasingly powerful India through asymmetrical warfare.
That a work of fiction has now assumed the form of an auction catalog could be seen as a sign of the times — deeply materialistic and, with a big recession on, increasingly for sale.
If being a partner of a big strategy consultant increasingly means giving more money and taking less, partners (actual and potential) may conclude that they are better off in a niche of their own.There is little doubt that strategy consultants will always be around, in some form, even if the firms are never again as big as they were two years ago.
"We are in a big battle between increasingly hollow prestige that costs a lot a money," says Sandefer, "and performance". Going forward, the biggest challenge for Acton is scaling the experience.
Main Street USA has already taken a big hit, and increasingly so, over the past few decades.
Today, as problems have grown increasingly complex, a big question is how can we reorganize the problem-solving work of society so it is more responsive to needs.
A big problem was the increasingly rickety business model of Iceland's two largest banks, Landsbanki and Kaupthing Bank.
For Steinbrenner, though, the Yankees-Mets games were a big deal, a sentiment increasingly hard to fathom in an age in which few fans even know the exhibition records of their own teams.
