"We've been very careful in our middle-market lending,".    From Wordnik.com.  [Prior Loans, Future Pain?] Reference

But the redtops and middle-market dailies all fell back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long faces glimpsed in the Mirror] Reference

It pays out 7.2% a year and invests mostly in middle-market bank notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closed-End Fun] Reference

Crows one middle-market owner, "This would have happened without them.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Big Leagues' Net Bet] Reference

Merrill said it will sell its middle-market commercial-finance business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investors Seem to Expect] Reference

Only in middle-market corporate banking and asset management did revenue grow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street Lifts J.P. Morgan] Reference

Phil Hurley is the owner of a middle-market Texas news station, KYTX Channel 19.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jennifer L. Pozner: Mocking Women Journalists a Prime-Time Sport?] Reference

The German Finance Ministry will face tough challenges with IKB, a middle-market lender.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woes Know No Border] Reference

Canaccord generally had focused on corporate underwriting; Genuity was a middle-market M.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canaccord and Genuity Join Forces] Reference

It has said it will use much of the cash to support its small-business and middle-market customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CIT Halts Preferred Payouts] Reference

Mr. Carcache expects CIT to get the approval, given the company's role in serving middle-market clients.    From Wordnik.com.  [CIT Shares Fall on Liquidity Concerns] Reference

U.S. middle-market bankruptcy-related transactions reached 80 deals in the year, up from 53 deals in 2007.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankruptcies, turmoil] Reference

John Brennan joined Silver Lake Sumeru, this firm's middle-market investment group, as a managing director.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noted ...] Reference

As a vice president at NationsBank, he provides mergers and acquisitions advice to middle-market companies.    From Wordnik.com.  [White House Announces 1998 1999 White House Fellows] Reference

On Wednesday, middle-market retailers J.C. Penney C.. and Kohl's C.rp. also reported lower same-store sales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slow Back-to-School Sales Signal Weak Holiday Season Ahead] Reference

Services at middle-market hotels are rising to accommodate a new wave of more demanding corporate customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIP SHEET] Reference

Forget about small-market teams, middle-market teams, like the Cardinals, they don't have that kind of leeway.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 10, 2002] Reference

There is one more issue to figure out: how Mr. Gleacher's big clients fit with Broadpoint's middle-market focus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warren Buffett] Reference

NORWEST MEZZANINE PARTNERS (Minneapolis) -- J ohn Hogan was named partner in this middle-market mezzanine investor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noted ...] Reference

But if you are fringe or middle-market it's going to be a lot tougher to get what you thought you were going to get.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questions for: Sal Galatioto] Reference

But sales at the dowdily middle-market deparment stores have been falling at a rate of 3 percent to 5 percent a year.    From Wordnik.com.  [10 Big Thinkers for Big Business] Reference

Already, several retailers and restaurant chains that cater to middle-market consumers have sought bankruptcy protection.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Fun for Six Flags] Reference

With so many mass and middle-market retailers jumping on runway trends, many looks quickly flood the market to saturation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Keepers in Your Closet] Reference

"The reality is, in middle-market mining, you're going to see a string of deals in the next 12 to 18 months," said Mr. Gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coal Merger Ends Hiatus Of Mine Deals] Reference

The middle-market chain, which competes head-on with J.C. Penney C.. plans to open a total of 75 new stores in 2008, Mr. Mansell says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kohl's Makes Grab for Market Share] Reference

"Logically, I feel like it would seem the administration would want ... to enable middle-market businesses to have access to funding.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CIT Shares Fall on Liquidity Concerns] Reference

The moves riled Harrah's middle-market customers, who are accustomed to getting the high-roller treatment in exchange for their loyalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harrah's Entertainment changes its game] Reference

Some of the commercial-loan growth is the result of banks lending to middle-market companies that continue to be seen as good credit risks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bank-Loan Haircut] Reference

I love red and over the past year I purchased two red blouses and a red turtleneck from a middle-market women's store under their own label.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hazards of Red Dye in Clothes] Reference

The company said it will streamline that business by shrinking employment and developing less-expensive products for middle-market customers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consumer Woes Wallop Insurers] Reference

The move is part of a strategy to "reinvent retirement" for middle-market consumers, who find the investment process too complicated, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life-Cycle Mutual Funds Get More Popular] Reference

That's the unnerving message consumers sent L'Oreal about its luxury and middle-market hair dyes, lipsticks and skin creams in the third quarter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Preference Isn't L'Oreal] Reference

Florsheim isn't the first stodgy middle-market brand seeking to appeal to younger, hipper customers by collaborating with cutting-edge designers.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Walk on the Wild Side] Reference

The middle-market firm is particularly strong in employee benefits, or the arranging of life insurance and other coverage for companies 'employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willis to Buy Rival] Reference

CIT hired a handful of investment bankers, hoping to build an internal unit to provide mergers-and-acquisition advice to its middle-market clients.    From Wordnik.com.  [CIT Scrambles] Reference

Ltd., a Hong Kong company that made clothing for middle-market lines such as Bernardo, which is sold at Macy's and Bon Ton, and is trying to break into the high-end business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fashion's Latest Comeback Attempt] Reference

In many instances, recruiters say, middle-market banks are trying to position themselves to win a larger part of the lending market share in the wake of the big banking mergers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expanding Regional Players] Reference