("The Whole," next to one of the wisteria pergolas, weighs eight thousand pounds, but doesn't look that big in the context of the garden).
"I would say pure walled-off proprietary-trading businesses at Goldman Sachs are not very big in the context of the firm," David A. Viniar, the firm's chief financial officer, said in a conference call.
"But clearly," Mr. Immelt concedes, "GE Capital was too big in the context of G.E". Going back to the early 1990s, he explains, anticipated returns — not so much market expertise — guided investment decisions.
During her travels to Europe, Carr explored modernism and pondered its "big ideas" in the context of the "big land" of her childhood, adopting new styles, transcending her own experience, creating potent landscapes for the world (3 ).
"Our community, as big as it is, still isn't big enough in the context of really wielding our electoral power," said Murad Awawdeh, president of the Muslim Democratic Club of New York.
So, the next time you hear someone talk about "big data" in the context of the consumer web, realize that, yes, valuable data, whether big or small, is being collected by every click we strike.
"That was a big try in the context of this pool.
Mr. Romney's mention of Big Bird — in the context of ending federal funding for PBS — stirred an enormous amount of online attention, as well as a few parody accounts on Twitter, with made-up names like "Fired Big Bird".
But the Customs Service and other law enforcement agencies, which have sometimes been at odds with the F.B.I. over terror-financing investigations, believe that the Ptech inquiry "has the potential to be a big deal" in the context of both financing and the software, said the senior law enforcement official who insisted on anonymity.
In 1997, Cox and Ellsworth [8] were among the first authors in scientific literature to discuss big data in the context of modern computing.
