Other consulting partnerships, like PricewaterhouseCoopers, pay bigger pensions tied to income level, but Andersen's partners opted for a one-size-fits-all pension so current partners would not grow resentful over having to pay big amounts for retirees, Mr. Kullberg said.
Ms. Stonesifer noted, however, that in the last few years the Gates Foundation has given away more than is required, partly because it has identified and, in some cases, helped build outlets capable of taking on bigger amounts of money, like the GAVI Alliance for immunization programs; the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria; and the United Negro College Fund.
While the sum is hefty by most standards, it's not a big amount for the likes of Mr. Perelman, who is estimated to worth more than $12 billion.
In this queue each customer has some waiting time but as ( lambda_{text{j}} ) is a big amount for cross docks, waiting time in this queue could be ignorable.
Olstein notes that the special charges from the acquisitions and other items have cut deeply into SPX's retained earnings, which now stand at $286 million, not a big amount for a company with a market cap of $4 billion.
The optimal combination of influencing of external factors gives an opportunity to include bigger amount of heavy residues for decreasing the cost.
These results are consistent with the pore size, as a bigger amount of gold can penetrate for bigger pores.
On the other hand, the more viscous polymer will be used the bigger amount of filler is required for percolation threshold achievement.
Raising VC money at that point in time would have been like giving them a gift — I would inevitably be diluted by 15-30 percent, in return for a bigger amount of money than what I needed to triple growth over this year and next.
Now, there is fear that big drug companies will be more hesitant to offer big amounts of money for the products of biotechnology companies.
