`` Big business, this little Thrift Shop business '', say the members.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

The Lansing Metropolitan Area, colloquially referred to as " Mid-Michigan ", is an important center for educational, cultural, governmental, business, and high-tech manufacturing, including two medical schools, one veterinary school, two nursing schools, two law schools, including the nation's largest law school ( Thomas M. Cooley Law School ), a Big Ten Conference university ( Michigan State ), the Michigan State Capitol, the state Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, a federal court, the Library of Michigan and Historical Center, and headquarters of four national insurance companies.

* Dominique ( Concetta Tomei ), co-proprietor of Big Time TV along with Blank Reg, managing the business aspects of running the station.

* List of Big Ten business schools

The business model of focusing on SUVs and light trucks, at the expense of more fuel-efficient compact and midsized cars, is blamed for declining sales and profits among Detroit's Big Three automakers since the mid-late 2000s.

The brothels of Helena were a successful part of the local business community well into the 20th century, ending with the death of Helena's last madam, " Big Dorothy " Baker, in 1973.

Big business is large-scale, corporate-controlled, financial or business activities.

" Big business " has been accused of a wide variety of misdeeds that range from the exploitation of the working class to the corruption of politicians and the fomenting of war.

The song " Big Time Operators ", released in 1993, is thought to allude to his dealings with the New York music business during this time period.

* is a business loop traveling through Big Rapids.

Most of the town and the business district are centered around Big Bear Boulevard.

Chouteau convinced the Osage tribe, under the leadership of Cashesgra (" Big Trek "), to migrate into Indian Territory near the trading post, and ensured the survival of the business.

After 30 years of business, Barbecue Pitmaster Wayne Schafer moved his Big Fat Daddy's concession stand and catering operations from Baltimore to Manchester, Pennsylvania in York County in 2012.

In the late 1970s, local residents Jerry and Anita Gentry began a mail-order business from their home in Big Sandy and called it Annie's Attic.

After the couple divorced in the early 1980s, Anita continued to preside over Annie's Attic, while Jerry launched a near-replicate business called The Needlecraft Shop, also in Big Sandy.

The success of the young Italians let them make business deals with the leading Jewish and Irish criminals of the era, including Dutch Schultz, Owney " the Killer " Madden and William " Big Bill " Dwyer.

As he followed the " Big Three " ideology of mixing crime, business and politics, Costello's underworld influence grew.

His first major motion picture score was Pee-wee's Big Adventure in 1985, and he continues to be much sought-after in the movie business, particularly in collaboration with director Tim Burton.

The continuing quest " in the business world's toughest race – the grinding contest against the Big Three automobile makers " also meant annual styling changes requiring large expenditures.

Objective personality tests can be designed for use in business for potential employees, such as the NEO-PI, the 16PF, and the OPQ ( Occupational Personality Questionnaire ), all of which are based on the Big Five taxonomy.

and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

Irritating to Hastings is the fact that Poirot will sometimes conceal from him important details of his plans, as in The Big Four where Hastings is kept in the dark throughout the climax.

Hastings is a man who is capable of great bravery and courage, facing death unflinchingly when confronted by The Big Four and possessing unwavering loyalty towards Poirot.

* 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space ; the event is named the " Wow!

In Futurama Season 4, Episode 16 " Three Hundred Big Boys ", Kif gives Amy a watch that is shortly after swallowed by a whale named Mushu.

* 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14. 5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13. 76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

The Big Book ( from Alcoholics Anonymous ) states that once a person is an alcoholic, they are always an alcoholic, but does not define what is meant by the term " alcoholic " in this context.

From the northern hemisphere, an easy way to find Arcturus is to follow the arc of the handle of the Big Dipper.

It is the star in the tail of the bear closest to its body, and thus the star in the handle of the Big Dipper closest to the bowl.

Big Dipper is the American term for the seven brightest stars of Ursa Major, called the Plough in Britain.

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that describes the early development of the Universe.

According to the most recent measurements and observations, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13. 75 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the Universe.

The Big Bang is a well-tested scientific theory and is widely accepted within the scientific community.

This singularity is sometimes called " the Big Bang ", but the term can also refer to the early hot, dense phase itself, which can be considered the " birth " of our Universe.

The Big Bang is not an explosion of matter moving outward to fill an empty universe.

An important feature of the Big Bang spacetime is the presence of horizons.

Fred Hoyle is credited with coining the term Big Bang during a 1949 radio broadcast.

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

The people are constantly reminded of this by the phrase " Big Brother is watching you ", which is the core " truth " of the propaganda system in this state.

Picture taken from Big SchoolChrist's Hospital is almost unique for a British independent school in that it educates a proportion of its students free, and most at a reduced rate.

In November 2002, seven and a half months after The Big Breakfast was axed, a fire destroyed a significant proportion of the first floor of the cottage the show was made in.

Martha Raye was known for the size of her mouth, which appeared large in proportion to the rest of her face, thus earning her the nickname The Big Mouth.

When the universe first formed, according to the Big Bang theory, it consisted almost entirely of hydrogen which, through primordial nucleosynthesis, created a sizeable proportion of helium and only trace amounts of lithium and beryllium and no heavier elements.