There's one difficulty in particular — A.I.G. already tried to sell a chunk of the business, and failed.
In the case of Netrebko, he has tried to command a chunk of her schedule, and the Met's plans for her now extend into the 2012-13 seandn and even beyond, with a goal of showcasing her in at least two productions a year, one old and one new.
Even though American's typically don't give any shits about soccer, when Luis Suarez tried to take a chunk out of Branislav Ivanovic's arm yesterday the zombie bite drew national attention.
"Everyone is trying to get a chunk of your mind".
Take, for example, his description of Jennifer's constant companion, the sharp-toothed Quarkbeast: "Despite his placid nature, the beast's ferocious appearance almost guaranteed that no one ever completely shrugged off the possibility that he might try to take a chunk out of them".
Mr. Clinton is trying to take a chunk of the surplus off the table by earmarking it for what administration officials said were realistic spending increases over the next 10 years for general government operations including things as diverse as Head Start and new fighter planes.
Cadence is the biggest name in the EDA game, reporting nearly $1.3 billion in sales last year, but new upstarts are trying to grab a chunk of this market.
Cost overruns and troubles signing up tenants for the high-priced space have forced Mills to try selling off a chunk of the mall to other investors.
But MasterCard faces increasing competition from other networks, including Morgan Stanley's Discover Financial and American Express, as well as threats from nontraditional companies that could try to grab a chunk of the payments industry, such as Wal-Mart Stores and eBay's Paypal.
"My guess is that you would have a ton of creative people coming to California to try to get a chunk of this money," said Baker, "and while they are there they would look to do things like live performances of music, plays, book readings, writers' workshops, etc., which would both subsidize their income and make them more widely known so that they could get more money from the public".
