Once Wylie and his wife returned to the Chicago area to live in 2008, they "
kicked the tires" at a few churches to find their religious home, to use Wylie's expression, until they happened upon the First Presbyterian Church of Wheaton.
Social network website Facebook, Chinese computer maker Lenovo and investment firm Cerberus backed by two BlackBerry founders and chip maker Qualcomm reportedly
kicked the tires, but no deals were reached by Monday's deadline.
The Dispatch reports that at least three or four other teams have "
kicked the tires" on Nash.
Throughout the day, a broad range of industry insiders mingled at the trade show in a spacious hangar, listened to educational seminars and
kicked the tires of massive viticulture equipment parked outside next to sleek private jets.
He
kicked the tires and checked under the hood, but sticker shock kept him from making a big trade.
In recent years, Vivendi has
kicked the tires of Kuwaiti telco Zain, Spain's pay TV service Digital Plus and France's Yellow Pages.
Their bid beat out two other finalists and numerous individuals and groups who
kicked the tires, including basketball team owner bad-boy Mark Cuban, whose brief interest stirred many fans of the long-suffering team.
Our insider said Little Rock's Baptist Health was in a line of would-be buyers who have assessed the SRMC properties and generally
kicked the tires without committing to a deal.
Nobody with clout told your marketing department that its wish lists were impractical, nobody regularly walked around and
kicked the tires on projects to see if programmers were meeting quality and performance standards, nobody important in the company ever became an advocate for innovation and future technology.
Over the past six months, CBS (Les Moonves and Jon Feltheimer are good friends), Viacom, Comcast, Verizon, NBC Univerasal and a handful of private equity firms have all
kicked the tires at Lionsgate.