The appeal by Wyeth and Pfizer's Upjohn unit sought to leverage a different part of the appeals court ruling ordering a new trial on punitive damages, which a jury had set at $27 million.
To do this, co-founders Dan Birdwhistell and Ben Sinclair have sought to leverage a large repository of private profile information: Facebook.
This isn't the first time Skype has sought to leverage a specific use case to encourage people to adopt its communication software.
In June, we reported how a relatively unknown country, Namibia, might seek to leverage a sudden celebrity publicity boost being the birthplace of the Brangelina baby to economic advantage.
The Turkish government, which initially sought to leverage a settlement between Damascus and its opposition, allows foreign fighters (scores of jihadists, referred to as al-Muhajirin, left Jabhat al-Nusra for ISIS earlier this year) and weapons to move freely across its territory, into Syria, and is widely believed to have moved weapons directly to Syrian insurgents a charge which Ankara denies. .
On one hand, China seeks to leverage benefits consistent with being a developing country, plays upon the west's historical guilt over colonialism, and exploits the west's continued belief that economic development will inexorably lead to pluralism.
Appropriate to the fairs' new bay side location is the "Deep See Project," curated by Carol Damian, which seeks to leverage the power of art as a means of communication to heighten awareness about climate change and the consequences of sea level rise.
A proven baby-boomer seeks to leverage his experience, but wants to work shortened hours.
J-WAFS seeks to leverage that collaboration by being particularly welcoming of cross-disciplinary project proposals and research teams.
CenturyLink seeks to leverage its customer base, which still uses hosting for the most part.
