Occasional letters are sent by individuals to one another and many are written by companies to one another, but these are mostly typewritten.

Providing these means are about ninety companies which manufactured the estimated 1,800,000 boat trailers now in use.

Many food and beverage companies are already on a highly planned basis.

Currently, there are some 6000 companies in the field, ranging from small firms with a handful of employees to major concerns having complete facilities for production of metal, electrical, and plastic components.

The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

However, it is not known to either the union or the public precisely how much of a cost increase is caused by a given change in the basic wage rate, although the companies are presumed to have reliable estimates of this magnitude.

But today many of those men are reaching retirement age and suddenly realizing that they face an estate tax problem with their closely held companies and also that they have no second-echelon management in their firms.

This means the aircraft companies are going to tear into the government market, looking for anything they can get and making the competition tough.

Many companies are coming into the country from China and surrounding nations to help improve road surfaces.

His name also survives in modern-day companies such as Dynamit Nobel and Akzo Nobel, which are descendants of the companies Nobel himself established.

Nowadays, most of the young people of Achill continue in school until they are 17 or 18, in one of the two post-primary schools and gain employment in modern high tech companies in Ireland and abroad.

This section requires that all telecommunications companies in the U. S. take steps to ensure functionally equivalent services for consumers with disabilities, notably those who are deaf or hard of hearing and those with speech impairments.

Among the economic development institutions established in East Africa were companies such as the Diamond Jubilee Investment Trust ( now Diamond Trust of Kenya ) and the Jubilee Insurance Company, which are quoted on the Nairobi Stock Exchange and have become major players in national development.

The game is currently published by Hasbro under the Avalon Hill brand, and the companies are once again hotel chains.

No official lists of ANAC numbers are published as telephone companies believe overuse of these numbers could make them more likely to be busy when needed by installers.

Around the world today are a number of banks, companies, charities, and schools for developing co-operative forms of business using Steiner's ideas about economic associations, aiming at harmonious and socially responsible roles in the world economy.

Exterior " latex " house paints may also be a " co-polymer " blend, but the very best exterior water-based paints are 100 % acrylic, due to elasticity and others, but 100 percent acrylic resins cost double as much as vinyl and PVA ( polyvinyl acetate ) is even cheaper, so paint companies make many combinations of them to match the market.

A review of the methods used in trials of antipsychotics, despite stating that the overall quality is " rather good ," reported issues with the selection of participants ( including that in schizophrenia trials up to 90 % of people who are generally suitable do not meet the elaborate inclusion and exclusion criteria, and that negative symptoms have not been properly assessed despite companies marketing the newer antipsychotics for these ); issues with the design of trials ( including pharmaceutical company funding of most of them, and inadequate experimental " blinding " so that trial participants could sometimes tell whether they were on placebo or not ); and issues with the assessment of outcomes ( including the use of a minimal reduction in scores to show " response ," lack of assessment of quality of life or recovery, a high rate of discontinuation, selective highlighting of favorable results in the abstracts of publications, and poor reporting of side-effects ).

The market prices for privately held companies are typically viewed from a return on investment perspective ( such as 25 %), whilst publicly held and or exchange listed companies trade on a Price to earnings ratio ( P / E ) ( such as a P / E of 10, which equates to a 10 % ROI ).

A hedge fund that is an example of this type of arbitrage is Greenridge Capital, which acts as an angel investor retaining equity in private companies which are in the process of becoming publicly traded, buying in the private market and later selling in the public market.

Such services are offered in the United Kingdom ; the telecommunication arbitrage companies get paid an interconnect charge by the UK mobile networks and then buy international routes at a lower cost.

Other celebrities such as Tyler Perry, George Lucas, and Steven Spielberg have become successful entrepreneurs through starting their own film production companies and running their own movie studios.

Venture capitalists saw record-setting growth as dot-com companies experienced meteoric rises in their stock prices and therefore moved faster and with less caution than usual, choosing to mitigate the risk by starting many contenders and letting the market decide which would succeed.

By 1910, the French film companies were starting to make films as long as two, or even three reels, though most were still one reel long.

Coupled with an aggressive advertising campaign, this caused a tremendous rise in the popularity of wargaming in the early 1970s, with a large number of new companies starting up.

State regulation is costly to companies, starting or closing a business is slow and costly.

However organisations are now starting to think of how their intranets can become a ' communication hub ' for their team by using companies specialising in ' socialising ' intranets.

In places, small groups of men, sometimes scratched together from different companies, in some cases from different divisions, were "... inspired, encouraged or bullied ..." out of the relative safety of the shingle, starting the grueling task of reducing the defenses atop the bluffs.

Other companies — including Mutual, the Yankee Network, and Paramount itself — were interested in starting television networks, but were prevented from successfully doing so by restrictive FCC regulations.

Ida was followed by a flood of Canadian companies starting similar projects.

Van Heusen and other textile companies left the region starting in the late 1970s, mainly as a result of foreign competition.

The company was unable to fully satisfy either the casual or serious model building market, and was one of the first companies to abandon model kits when the hobby started its decline, selling AMT to the Ertl Company and shutting down its own kit division less than twenty years after starting it.

Some companies supported by the incubator have earned recognition, and a few are starting to outgrow their current space.

* On October 2, 2007, The CW ( WB and UPN's successor ) announced that it would end the Kids ' WB block starting May 2008, due to the effects of children's advertising limits and cable competition, in a joint decision between Warner Bros. and CBS, parent companies of The CW.

In Ireland, branches are still organised on this basis, but in the UK starting in 1998 there was a reorganisation such that members of most branches are employed by a single company e. g. Virgin Midlands-this was required in the fragmented world of the privatised railway because the private companies would not allow access for non-employees onto their premises.

As of May-2006 there are a number of implementations of IKEv2 and some of the companies dealing in IPsec certification and interoperability testing are starting to hold workshops for testing as well as updated certification requirements to deal with IKEv2 testing.

In the late 1990s, Mason sold herbs wholesale to companies both locally and regionally before starting a line of wellness and bath and body products called Resting in the River.

Consequently, there is less competition than there used to be, and the high cost of starting up keeps new companies from entering.

During the 1960s and 1970s, venture capital firms focused their investment activity primarily on starting and expanding companies.

Escrow companies are also commonly used in the transfer of high value personal and business property, like websites and businesses, and in the completion of person-to-person remote auctions ( such as eBay ), although the advent of new low cost online escrow services has meant that even low cost transactions are now starting to benefit from use of escrow.

WIth both companies fully integrated, Air Canada began massive cuts to employees starting with the announcement that there would be 3500 cuts in the workforce on December 22, 2000.

Interplay started publishing its own games, starting with Neuromancer and Battle Chess, in 1988, and then moved on to publish and distribute games from other companies, while continuing internal game development.

Mobile phone companies in the U. S. are notorious for huge early-termination fees, typically starting at 175 dollars, and falling by only a few dollars per month, no matter the actual cost of or subsidy to the phone.

While Western oil and gas companies were unwilling to conduct business in Burma on account of the abysmal human rights record of the ruling military junta, Daewoo is one of three oil companies, along with the French company Total and the American company Unocal, which is already, or is close to, starting gas production in the country ( at the Yadana Field ).