Mr. Alexander had already made several major decisions that positioned Comverse extremely well for the telecommunications boom to come.
But they signal a clear departure from previous campaigns that positioned Merrill as a brokerage firm for the masses.
It was Horses that positioned Smith – as "punk's poet laureate", but also established her as an artist who believed she was serving something greater than herself.
In September 2005, on Mr. Getnick's recommendation, the federal charges against the racing association were dropped, a step that positioned the association to compete to continue running it.
Morgan Stanley benefited from a trading strategy that positioned the firm to gain whether stocks rose or fell, Mr. Moszkowski said.
But she quickly wove the attacks into a brilliant cloak of martyrdom that positioned her as a fierce small-town opponent of the coasts' pointy-head elites.
A luminous box with an unbroken glass facade that positioned its escalators and its impressive steel vault so that they would be prominent and visible through the windows.
Some funds, like Brevan Howard and Bridgewater Associates, have performed well amid the market carnage, thanks to macro bets that positioned their holdings for a decline in markets.
Back in Long Island a few days later, Mr. Kabakov cynically regarded articles from Russian newspapers that positioned him as the great figure of late 20th-century Russian art, as Malevich had been at its start.
[C7.] A Spokesman With Attitude, Almost Gary Winnick, left, the chairman of Global Crossing, was said to be enthralled last year with an ad campaign that positioned James Gandolfini, the actor who plays Tony Soprano, as a company spokesman.
Polly Findlay had a scorching success at the large Olivier at the National Theatre with a modern-dress "Antigone" that positioned the Sophocles play as a genuinely cautionary tale for our troubled times.
