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firm and lost
On September 11, 2001 the firm lost 66 of its 171 Principals and employees in the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center.
In the years following, opposition parties have lost most of their steam and Eyadéma's control has become almost as firm as before the crisis began.
The actions of the Soviet government alienated Childe, who lost his formerly firm faith in Joseph Stalin's administration, but not his belief in socialism and Marxist theory.
The epode soon took a firm place in choral poetry, which it lost when that branch of literature declined.
In 2009, the nearby Bayside Expo Center property was lost in a foreclosure to a Florida-based real estate firm, LNR / CMAT.
Beginning in 1871, the Wilkes-Barre Coal & Iron Co. and then its successor, the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co., operated the mine, but this firm fell into receivership in 1877 and lost their lease.
Founding his publishing company in 1946, Hart-Davis was praised for the quality of the firm's publications and production ; but he refused to cater to public tastes, and the firm eventually lost money.
Thus Pym lost the unity of the House of Commons, which had allowed him to oppose the King from a firm platform ; previously the King had had to agree to demands because he could not raise an army alone to fight the Irish rebels.
His recently widowed landlady, Mrs. Margaret Hammond ( Roberts ), a mother of two young children, lost her husband in an accident at Weaver's engineering firm but gained no compensation because it was ruled to have been a suicide.
Instead, Stevens was offered a job with the Fairbanks, Alaska, law firm of Emil Usibelli's Alaska attorney, Charles Clasby, whose firm – Collins and Clasby – had just lost one of its attorneys.
The firm lost £ 15 million when a rush of orders overwhelmed the firm ’ s settlement system in 1987.
One result of this scandal was that Arthur Andersen, then one of the five largest accountancy firms worldwide, lost their ability to audit public companies, essentially killing off the firm.
In recent decades, however, the Chiprovtsi carpet industry has been in decline as it had lost its firm foreign markets.
In 1999, having lost a power struggle with Henry M. Paulson, Corzine left the firm.
Werner Hamacher has claimed that the earthquake's consequences extended into the vocabulary of philosophy, making the common metaphor of firm " grounding " for philosophers ' arguments shaky and uncertain: " Under the impression exerted by the Lisbon earthquake, which touched the European mind in one its more sensitive epochs, the metaphor of ground and tremor completely lost their apparent innocence ; they were no longer merely figures of speech " ( 263 ).
After the Goss government lost office in 1996, Rudd was hired as a Senior China Consultant by the accounting firm KPMG Australia.
Berkshire Cotton later became a major part of Berkshire Hathaway, whose large factory in Adams was closed in 1958 ( the 1, 000 lost jobs were not the fault of Warren Buffett, who did not take over the firm until 1965 ).
Savers also face significant risk as individual investors, since if they lend to a single firm or individual, that entity can collapse, with the savers having lost the money they lent.
The firm went bankrupt, and Burnet lost all of the money.
His son, the third Viscount, after serving in World War II where he lost an arm, was Chairman of the family firm of Pearson Plc from 1954 to 1977. the titles are held by the latter's son, the fourth Viscount, who succeeded in 1995.
Since Zeiss, the German firm that produced planetarium projectors, had lost most of its factories during World War II, there were very few projectors available at the time.
However, in 2009, the Bayside Expo Center property was lost in a foreclosure on Corcoran-Jennison to a Florida-based real estate firm, LNR / CMAT, who bought it.
He lost his job in 1959 when the firm went out of business, and the Hammond family again found themselves in financial trouble.

firm and money
' In this way, your broker's firm may make money on the " spread " – which is the difference between the purchase price and the sale price.
These trials were extremely costly in both money and time, but ultimately were successful for the firm.
" Atta also worked at a cleaning firm, and buying and selling cars to earn extra money.
These casinos have brought an influx of money to the tribes ; according to tribal accounting firm Joseph Eve, CPAs, the average net profit of Indian casinos is 38. 85 %.
If the firm lowers price P < MC then it will be losing money on every unit sold.
In contrast to a monopoly or oligopoly, it is impossible for a firm in perfect competition to earn economic profit in the long run, which is to say that a firm cannot make any more money than is necessary to cover its economic costs.
Alma-Tadema was as firm in money matters as he was with the quality of his work.
* Maturity Transformation ( MT ): use / borrow cheap ( e. g. short-term ) money to invest at a more lucrative rate ( typically long-term projects for a firm ; or longer-term loans if the transformer is a bank ).
Both men were also known to have continuously sent money home to less fortunate family members in Scotland and to have helped nephews by providing them work within the firm.
Even if a firm chooses to use its own funds in an investment, the interest rate represents an opportunity cost of investing those funds rather than lending out that amount of money for interest.
Also, the conglomerate had a better ability to borrow in the money market, or capital market, than the smaller firm at their community bank.
* Share repurchases, in which a firm gives back money to its investors, reducing on the asset side its financial assets, and on the liability side the shareholders ' equity.
For practical purposes ( except for its tax consequences ), share repurchasing is similar to a dividend payment, as both consist of the firm giving money back to investors.
As Mankiw describes, a firm that lowers its prices because of a decrease in the money supply will be raising the real income of the customers of that product.
In 2011, total money spent on lobbying was about $ 6. 3 million, more than any other agribusiness firm except the tobacco company Altria.
Jersey City is home to the headquarters of Verisk Analytics and Lord Abbett, a privately held money management firm.
He used the money to open his own investment firm, RJM Group, Inc.
While the term " stockbroker " is still in use, more common terms are " broker ", " financial advisor ", " registered rep ." or simply " rep ." — the latter being abbreviations of the official Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ( FINRA ) designation " Registered Representative ," obtained by passing the FINRA General Securities Representative Exam ( also known as the " Series 7 exam ") and being employed (" associated with ") a registered broker-dealer, also called a brokerage firm or ( in the case of some larger money center broker / dealers ) a " wirehouse ", typically a FINRA member firm.
While it does not make a firm political stance, it is most closely related to libertarian socialism ( given that it supports the abolition of money and property ).
In advancing the money for the work, the firm overestimated its capital, and at the approach of the Panic of 1873 it was forced to suspend operations.
The firm made little money, and Cockerell began to think how the craft could be made to go faster.
For example, a firm may wish to borrow a large sum of money by issuing debt securities.

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