"Jeff will drive at something to the point of driving me crazy," said Rich Frank, the former chairman of the Firm and a partner in Prospect Park, which employs 28 people and was started with Mr. Kwatinetz's personal assets.
This principle extends to the point of driving a complete platform with a single motor.
"The whole point of driving is saving money and speeding through the toll plaza -- and I've still got that".
Small-business owners would find their property suddenly reassessed and their taxes raised, he said, perhaps to the point of driving them out of business.
I made a point of driving to Buffalo to watch a rookie 18-year-old named Sidney Crosby dominate a very good Buffalo Sabres team.
Unlike conventional pollutants that are harmful in themselves and that government has every right to regulate even to the point of driving some emitters of such pollutants out of business, atmospheric CO2 is not such a pollutant.
Some would say that lumping the Brotherhood together with out-and-out jihadis is worse than a mistake; it could alienate people to the point of driving them into the jihadist camp.
At Union High, Mr. Mosser, who is now in his second year with the school and was nominated for a 2008 Rising Star Award as outstanding director, makes a point of driving home the realities of the business.
She argues that the timing is bad given the weak economy and that the benefit could increase compensation costs for businesses by an average of 1.5 percent, which in her view would hurt smaller companies to the point of driving them out of business or out of the city.
The Islamic militant group has no faith in mediation by Egypt's rulers, who deposed a Hamas-friendly government in Cairo a year ago and tightened restrictions on Gaza — to the point of driving Hamas into its worst financial crisis since its founding in 1987.
