"It's a very, very significant case in terms of the implications for both domestic and foreign companies that do business in the United States," says Paul T. Gallagher Paul T. Gallagher, the plaintiffs' lawyer, from class-action powerhouse Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll.
After graduating, Mr. Lee became an executive at Silver Pictures, a powerhouse for action films.
"George Osborne talks about a Northern powerhouse," he observed, "but actions speak louder than words".
Human rights advocates worry that nations in the region, particularly South Africa, the regional powerhouse, may balk at taking action.
Any action the government takes on securing the powerhouse will ultimately be for nothing if standards for pupils in the north fail to improve.
Last month, the online video powerhouse Netflix started a political action committee to complement a budding lobbying effort in support of the idea that all content must be allowed to travel through the Internet on equal terms.
The crude powerhouse "The Last Castle" is an action-picture version of "Brubaker," the prison-reform social drama that allowed Mr. Redford to shake up the penal system while retaining a movie-star supercoiffure.
A few days ago I had to begin using fingers on both hands to tally the count of economic and institutional powerhouses speaking out for strong governmental action to avert climate catastrophe.
A $7m outlay brought spectacular returns of over $70m for James Cameron's first great sci-fi action thriller, which spawned a three-sequel franchise, a powerhouse directorial career, and made robotic, former iron-pumping Teuton Arnold Schwarzenegger an unlikely 80s superstar.
Labour's shadow education secretary, Lucy Powell, said however that the government's rhetoric of a northern powerhouse would not match reality unless real action was taken to close the growing attainment gap between disadvantaged young people and their peers.
