Mr. Weinstein, meanwhile, went further beyond film distribution and more heavily into film production, taking on sizable projects like "The English Patient" and the coming "Gangs of New York" and working with some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
The company announced this morning that it has taken on a sizable $15 million investment led by the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm created by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam.
Some schools reward teachers who take on extracurricular activities and other responsibilities with a more sizable slice of the pie.
The early chapters take on the government-disparaging market triumphalists (his term), emphasizing their need to ingest a sizable chill pill.
Her many summers at Marlboro have allowed her to take on a sizable American vocabulary, which she is always seeking to expand.
The study found that the existing city-owned transfer stations, if rebuilt to handle residential waste, could potentially also take on a sizable chunk of smelly commercial garbage, some 9,800 tons a day.
The money market problems could not reasonably have been anticipated; indeed, in retrospect it seems reckless for a money market fund that portrayed itself as safe to have taken on the risk of a sizable exposure to Lehman securities.
To Mr. Einhorn, the government is "not willing to take on significant misbehavior by sizable" firms.
That was the acquisition that launched the Turner company as a major advertising player in the South, and it involved taking on a sizable amount of debt.
Shares of Comcast fell 94 cents, or 2.41percentt, yesterday to close at $38.09, apparently in expectation that the company would win the auction, taking on a sizable debt and diluting the value of its shares.
