" One of the biggest stories of the season transpired as the club made a midseason deal for Fred McGriff, which was drawn out for nearly a month as McGriff debated waiving his no-trade clause, as the Cubs led the wild card race by 2. 5 games in early September.

Grant secured an advance deal of $ 200, 000 from Atlantic Records in November 1968, which was then one of biggest deals of its kind for a new band.

The Norwegian-Russian Chamber of Commerce also states that " orruption is one of the biggest problems both Russian and international companies have to deal with.

So far it is the biggest music deal in British history.

There was a great deal of concern over nuclear weapons and nuclear power in sixties and seventies, then there was acid rain in the eighties, ozone depletion and deforestation in the nineties, and now climate change and global warming are the biggest concern for many.

Also Sam Cassell ( widely credited as the biggest reason for the Clippers ' recent success ) signed a two-year, $ 13 million deal.

Chicago was one of the biggest buyers in the trade market, though, acquiring a future franchise player in left-winger Martin Havlat, as well as center Bryan Smolinski from the Ottawa Senators in a three-way deal that also involved the San Jose Sharks.

In 2009, Israel overtook Russia as India's biggest arms supplier ; the U. S. even gave Israel approval to sell the Phalcon to India after earlier forcing Jerusalem to cancel a similar deal with China.

Meanwhile, Michael busies himself with the biggest deal of his career: He has recently bought up enough stock in International Immobiliare, an international real estate holding company known as " the world's biggest landlord ", to become its largest single shareholder, with six seats on the company's 13-member board of directors.

Pop star Robbie Williams signed a 6 album deal in 2002 paying him over £ 80 million ($ 157 million ), which was not only the biggest recording contract in British music history at the time, but also the second biggest in music history behind that of Michael Jackson.

With efforts to sign Girl's Tyme to a major record deal, Frager's strategy was to debut the group in Star Search, the biggest talent show on national TV at the time.

The biggest stipulation in the nine-album deal was that he receive free studio time, meaning he paid no recording costs.

CanWest Global Communications, Canada's biggest media concern, had announced an agreement to take a 50 percent stake in the Jerusalem Post after Mirkaei bought the property, but the deal soured.

In connection with the release of Maestro, Kaizers Orchestra signed an international record deal with Universal Germany, taking them from one of the smallest labels to one of the biggest.

Argonauts GM Mike McCarthy pulled off the biggest trade in CFL history that saw Tracy Ham come to Toronto in a blockbuster 16-player deal with the Edmonton Eskimos.

The acquisition was set to close in September ; however, just a few days before the deal was to be completed, Hurricane Katrina just missed New Orleans — Hibernia's headquarters and biggest market.

It is the biggest ever property deal in British history.

The biggest deal is with Wal-Mart, which had $ 73 billion in sales in 1993.

Following the death of Stax's biggest star, Otis Redding, in 1967 and the severance of the label's distribution deal with Atlantic Records in 1968, Stax continued primarily under the supervision of a new co-owner, Al Bell.

With only having to appear in the biggest arenas and with an increase of the gate percentages, Bruno had, up to this point, the greatest financial deal in wrestling history.

W. Galen Weston noted the sale of the American assets represented the company ’ s biggest deal ever and that these transactions left Weston and Loblaw with a combined $ 5 billion in cash to for future acquisitions.

On 10 May 2011 Skype was purchased by Microsoft for a supposed $ 8. 5 billion in its biggest ever cash deal.

New Zealand First's involvement in such a coalition would have run counter to its pre-election promise to deal with the biggest party.

`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.

The biggest loss, of course, was the individual's lessened desire and ability to give his services to the growth of his company and our economy.

Still more jealous bitterness was engendered by the O'Banion gang's seizure from a West Side marshalling yard of a freight-car load of Canadian whisky worth $100,000 and by one of the biggest coups of the Prohibition era -- the Sibley warehouse robbery, which became famous for the cool brazenness of the operation.

This was the biggest annual outlay since the Communist program for the under-developed countries made its modest beginning in 1954.

Insuring that the countries have a freedom of choice, he said, was the biggest detriment to the Soviet Union.

Now all he had to do was finish in even par to collect the trophy and the biggest single paycheck in golf.

None of us was aware that the biggest fight was still ahead.

The controversy over the Ikin catch was one of the biggest disputes of the era.

He was undoubtably the biggest influence on Plotinus in his development of Neoplatonism, although little is known about his own philosophical views.

After the war, the biggest concern was the rebuilding of Abadan's oil refinery.

During its final two years of existence, the AFL teams won upset victories over the NFL teams in Super Bowl III and IV, the former New York Jets victory was considered one of the biggest upsets in American sports history.

The biggest achievement of Abdülaziz was to modernize the Ottoman Navy.

Also in the late 1990s in the Walloon south of the country, French speaking / rapping Starflam was the biggest name in hip hop.

The show's best-known and Sondheim's biggest hit song was almost an afterthought, written several days before the start of out of town tryouts.

Perhaps AMOS BASIC's biggest disadvantage, stemming from it Atari ST lineage, was its incompatibility with the Amiga's operating system functions and interfaces.

The biggest change Robbins made was a new opening number to replace " Love Is in the Air " and introduce the show as a bawdy, wild comedy.

It soon was the biggest adding machine company in America.

But the biggest shift in company history came in 1953 ; the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation and began moving into computer products, initially for banking institutions.

The music was revised completely but the biggest change came in the footage used – reflecting the methods and nature of newsgathering, while a strong emphasis was placed on the BBC logo itself.

There was a vast amount of publicity around the film, with a critic for the New York Times calling it " the most eagerly awaited picture of the year ", and it was one of the biggest money-makers of the era.

The biggest concentration camp was Jasenovac in Croatia.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".