Industry executives say that Swiss Bank, smaller and scrappier than the Union Bank of Switzerland, did a good job of melding the firms together and letting non-Swiss executives continue to build those businesses on their own.
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"I thinkwe're a little bit scrappier ( than last year's line ), " UCLA defensive end Bruce Davis sid . " We're not going to beat people because we're giants.
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In addition to the uncertainties how the Belgian connection will affect any new national carrier, there already was concern that the merger of two very different corporate cultures-the patrician Swissair and the scrappier Crossair-would be bumpy, at best.
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And by starting a confrontational advertisement this soon in the campaign season, the president is leaving the dignified trappings of the Oval Office with eight long months until Election Day and engaging Kerry on a lower, scrappier level _ that of a candidate.
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It's darn hard for Californians not to gloat about Enron Corp ., once the big daddy of the energy world, being in such miserable financial shape that the company is on the verge of being acquired by a smaller, scrappier rival.
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But Round One of a dogfight that should get even scrappier in the months and years to come clearly belonged to Moiso, Gadzuric, Ray Young and Matt Barnes, even if they did combine to outscore the Wildcats'freshmen by only one ( 36-35 ).
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There was surprise, too, and bruised egos, when the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra-- the country's premiere music institution, led by Zubin Mehta-- was passed up as the opera orchestra in favor of a younger and scrappier ensemble, the Israel Symphony Orchestra, from neighboring Rishon LeZion.
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At the same time, smaller, scrappier foes like Salesforce . com and RightNow Technologies, and also bigger competitors like Microsoft, are offering cheaper, simpler solutions that appeal to small and medium-sized businesses-- and even the occasional large corporation-- in an era of cost-cutting.
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At the show's center, as in the novel, are two half sisters : the lovely, demure heiress Laura Fairlie ( Jill Paice ) and the scrappier, plainer Marian Halcombe ( Friedman ), who live in sororial harmony on a country estate with their vain, hypochondriacal uncle ( Edward Petherbridge ).
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Lost in the morning-after sniping over whether Miramax bought its Oscars through a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign was the fact that a smaller and scrappier company, which spent much less on its campaign, got two big awards : supporting actor for James Coburn in " Affliction " and adapted screenplay for Bill Condon's " Gods and Monsters ."
