Earnings in the last two quarters have been running at their average for 2007, when Glencore made a record $5.2 billion for the year, including a sizable contribution from its 34 percent stake in the mining group Xstrata.
The sizable contribution from AT&T will go towards creating a public learning space for teachers in Los Angeles, a research tank, and an online hub that will curate interactive curricula from GameDesk and around the web.
If Grand Central Terminal got sizable contributions from Oldsmobile and Oprah Winfrey, could New Yorkers coexist with the Grand Olds Oprah?
Mr. Lazio has also collected sizable contributions from donors with interests before the Commerce Committee, particularly Wall Street and the broadcasting industry.
Restore Our Future has also taken sizable contributions from other corporate entities whose business, structure and ownership is not immediately evident.
The Republican Governors Association benefited from a number of sizable contributions from deep-pocketed individual and corporate donors over the last few months, driving a record $31 million fund-raising haul in the third quarter.
Through a similar arrangement, the Minnesota governor and a potential 2012 contender, Tim Pawlenty, collected $60,000 in late September from a Texas home builder, Bob J. Perry, one of the Republican Party's largest donors, and his wife, Doylene, and has taken sizable contributions from a slew of others.
And except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy; and Exelon, which owns the most nuclear reactors in the country.
And except for two congressmen who didn't take any energy industry money, the signatories received sizable contributions from a number of other corporations that compete with wind, including coal barons Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources; and oil and gas giants Chesapeake Energy, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy.
Thus, we conclude that AID has no sizable contribution for meiotic recombination.
Even in a $15 trillion economy, that's a sizable contribution to growth from the country's multinationals, and demonstrates how they can overcome some of the drag from the huge domestic budget and payments deficits.
