Medium-sized locals which have hooked up with foreign firms might challenge the oligopoly.
The thinking behind that, Mr. Englebright said, is that birds are not likely to mistake jig heads, which have hooks and are brightly painted, for the pebbles he said they eat to grind their food.
The 35-acre property in Crystal Cove State Park has 60 campsites, 30 of which have hook-ups providing electricity and water.
A little lower, on the right-hand side of her abdomen, you see a hole and a permanently implanted tube through which she has hooked herself up to peritoneal-dialysis equipment every night for the past five years, to flush out the toxins that her ruined kidneys cannot.
A sloth, which eats leaves from trees, has hooked claws like a clothes hanger to latch onto branches, and snakes, whose ancestors had them, have no legs, but instead an extremely long, flexible backbone for sinuous slithering".
It's also a sly code for the stage at which publishers have hooked enough users to begin charging regular fees for their online content.
Instead of tossing my pajamas over the back of my chair each morning, I hang them on this closet organizer, which I've hooked on the inside of one of my closet doors.
It's the bitchy hip-hop soap saga which has Michelle Obama hooked and left even Twitter shocked by its lurid dialogue.
In raising the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, Janet Yellen and her colleagues at the Federal Reserve signaled that, in their view, the U.S. economy, which has been hooked up to a monetary life-support machine since December, 2008, is now strong enough to withstand slightly higher borrowing costs.
Law firms like Dentons, which has recently hooked up with Dacheng ― an influential Chinese law firm ― provide convenient, velvet glove cover for monetized pitchmen like the turncoat Dean.
