As of June 30, 2011, the largest hedge funds by worldwide assets were Bridgewater Associates ( US $ 58. 9 billion ), Man Group ( US $ 39. 2 billion ), Paulson & Co. ( US $ 35. 1 billion ), Brevan Howard ( US $ 31 billion ), and Och-Ziff ( US $ 29. 4 billion ).

Specialists from Raytheon, Simrad ( now Kongsberg Maritime ), and Hydroacoustics, Inc .; Marty Klein of MIT and Klein Associates ( a producer of side scan sonar ); and Dr. Ira Dyer of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering were all on hand to examine the data.

In 1885, when the Volta Associates were sure that they had a number of practical inventions, they filed patent applications and began to seek out investors.

The work of the Volta Associates laid the foundation for the successful use of dictating machines in business, because their wax recording process was practical and their machines were durable.

In United States of America v. Extreme Associates a pornography distributor from North Hollywood, California, was judged to be held accountable to the community standards applying in western Pennsylvania, where the Third Circuit made its ruling, because the materials were available via Internet in that area.

However, without the guiding hand of Rankine, recordings were sporadic and subsequent Associates records failed to reach the charts in the UK and sold far fewer than their early albums.

In 1993 Mackenzie and Rankine began working on new material together: news of an Associates revival generated hype and speculation of a tour and the demos recorded by the two were promising.

Notably, despite their varying styles, the latter two were designed by Ralph Appelbaum Associates.

By 1975 there were two competing freestyle organizations, Professional Freestyle Associates ( PFA ) run by Curtis Oberhansly and the International Freestyle Skiers Association ( IFSA ) run by Bernie Weichsel.

In 1995, Subway Sandwich Shops, Fred DeLuca, Peter Buck, and Doctor's Associates, Inc. were held liable for breach of contract.

The Associates toured as support band for The Cure and The Passions on the Future Pastimes Tour of England between November and December — all three bands were on the Fiction Records roster — with the new Cure line-up already performing a number of new songs for the projected second album.

The early 1990s were to see two important changes in the way that the company worked: firstly, in 1991, with the formation of the " Artistic Associates of The Australian Opera ", a body of people was created which comprised some of the most important figures in the Australian musical and performing arts world.

Originally, large tracts of land ( Athens and Alexander Townships ) were set aside through a contract between the Congress ( under the Articles of Confederation ) and the Ohio Company of Associates, a group of American Revolutionary War veterans.

In terms of national rankings, Maclean's ranked Waterloo 3rd in their 2011 comprehensive university rankings. The Higher Education Strategy Associates ranked the University 8th nationally in Science and Engineering. In an employability survey published by the New York Times in October 2011, when CEOs and chairmans were asked to select the top universities which they recruited from, Waterloo placed 106th in the world, and sixth in Canada.

A number of noted record collectors and researchers ( George Blacker, Carl Kenziora, Len Kunstadt, among other members of the New York Record Research Associates ) had long speculated that since these records were found in a west coast warehouse uncirculated, they were possibly intended for offshore sales in U. S. possessions ( Guam, Marianas, etc.

From the 1950s until 2000, all drum and bugle corps were required to use instruments pitched in the key of G. That year, Drum Corps International changed its rules again, allowing instruments in any key, with most other major organizations ( e. g. Drum Corps Associates ) following suit soon after.

Erhard was first known for " The est Training " ( 1971 – 1983 ) and " The Forum " ( 1984 – 1991 ), which were offered to the public through an organizational structure that included Erhard Seminars Training Inc. ( 1971 – 1975 ), est, an educational corporation ( 1975 – 1981 ), and Werner Erhard & Associates ( WEA, 1981 – 1991 ).

In 2004, Busby and Associates Architects, designers of the Brentwood Town Centre Station in Burnaby, were honoured for their work with a Governor General's Medal in Architecture.

At the time, The Associates were also signed to Fiction Records.

Other innovators were companies such as IMS Associates, Inc., Cromemco, Godbout Electronics ( later CompuPro ), and Ithaca Intersystems.

Stanford was one of the four major businessmen known popularly as " The Big Four " ( or among themselves as " the Associates ") who were the key investors in the Central Pacific Railroad, which they incorporated on June 28, 1861, and of which Stanford was elected president.

However, the self-contained PCS-II incorporated many of the innovations that would later be seen in PCs, including the first 5. 25 inch floppy drives that were especially designed for the PCS-II by Shugart Associates.

The American Airlines terminal, the Northwest / TWA terminal, and the US Air Interim terminal were designed by Joseph C. Giuliani, FAIA of Giuliani Associates Architects.

* Chalmers, John Audubon in Edinburgh and his Scottish Associates, 2003.

The Pulteney Associates were British investors: nine-twelfths was owned by Sir William Pulteney, 5th Baronet ( 1729 – 1805 ), a Scottish lawyer ; two-twelfths by William Hornby, former Governor of Bombay ; and one-twelfth by Patrick Colquhoun, a Scottish merchant.

* Perhaps ( album ), the fourth album released by the Scottish New Wave band Associates

Winners have included: the Enric Miralles ' Scottish Parliament building ; Bennetts Associates ' University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum ; and Reiach & Hall's Pier Arts Centre in Orkney.

While the RCPE is based in Edinburgh, it is not solely a Scottish professional body-more than half of its 7, 700 Fellows, Members, Associates and Affiliates live and practice medicine outside Scotland, in 86 countries and covering 55 specialties.

Following a talk by Mr. Clark at the New York State Natural Food Associates Convention, a man from the audience offered to ship his unsprayed apples to the school from Vermont.

* Charles Wang – founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders

New York: Bookman Associates, 1958.

Boston based architecture firm Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc, together with the New York architectural firm Beyer Blinder Belle, designed the restoration and adaptive use of the Beaux-Arts Main Building, one of the most symbolically important structures in American history.

* 1986: Acquires Sanders Associates electronics of Nashua, New Hampshire.

He directs the firm Michael Graves & Associates, which has offices in Princeton and in New York City.

The first serious investigation of using a gas turbine in cars was in 1946 when two engineers, Robert Kafka and Robert Engerstein of Carney Associates, a New York engineering firm, came up with the concept where a unique compact turbine engine design would provide power for a rear wheel drive car.

* New Enterprise Associates, an American venture capital firm.

* High Speed Computing Devices by the Staff of Engineering Research Associates ; ( 1950 ); New introduction by Arnold A. Cohen ; 6 " x9 "; 493 pp. ; illus ; biblio ; bios ; index ; ISBN 0-262-08152-0 ( available through Charles Babbage Institute )

In 2012, Desire2Learn, located in downtown Kitchener, received $ 80 million in venture capitalist funding from OMERS Ventures and New Enterprise Associates.

New York: Kerr Associates 1994.

He next worked at the distinguished New York design firm of McMillen, Inc. and co-founded Parish-Hadley, Associates ( 1962 – 1999 ).

The resulting start-up, Healtheon, was founded in early 1996 with backing from Kleiner Perkins and New Enterprise Associates.

Since then, the City of D ’ Iberville has been working with Jaime Correa and Associates on the implementation of its master plan, on a full-fledged New Urbanism SmartCode for its downtown area, and on the implementation of mixed-use neighborhoods and main street.

* Charles Wang, founder of Computer Associates, owner of the New York Islanders and the New York Dragons

Mickey Cohen is put in charge of the betting casinos ; Jack Dragna is forced to admit to a raging Ben, that Jack stole $ 14, 000 from the New York Associates, and is told he now answers to Cohen.

Mexico sold the canal franchise, without the land grants, to A. G. Sloo and Associates in New York for $ 600, 000 ($ today ).

Here, members of a Drum Corps Associates | DCA corps from Upstate New York are shown performing in a parade.

They have judged and marched in the USA in Drum Corps International and Drum Corps Associates events – with the Bayonne Bridgemen ( New Jersey ), Spirit of Atlanta ( Georgia ), Crossmen ( Pennsylvania ), New York Skyliners, and the Lehigh Valley Chieftains.

New York: B. Geis Associates ; New York: Limelight Editions, 1985.