Most state programs have expanded the youth legislature into a full-scale 3-5 day State Assembly or Conference, operating a complete model government that offers student delegates the opportunity to serve as members of the Executive Branch, Judicial Branch, Press Corps and Media, and Lobbyist Firms and many other program areas.

Firms operating in competitive markets are under constant pressure to out perform each other.

Firms operating under conditions of monopoly or imperfect competition are faced with downward sloping demand curves.

Firms need to know which other software products their product must work with ( e. g. operating systems ) to provide the most usability for the customer.

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms provides import impacted companies with professional guidance, business recovery plan development, and cost-sharing for outside consulting services.

Firms protect the privacy of participants by promising that the data collected will be presented to the sponsor either in aggregate or in a format stripped of any personally identifiable information.

Firms will often enter the industry in the long run.

Of course one needs to note that Equity capital has the highest cost in the long run, as a firm needs to demonstrate higher return on investment for its shareholders Firms can also combine the three types of financing, angel / venture, factoring and bank line of credit to further reduce their total cost of funds whilst at the same time improving cash flow.

Firms taking advantage of strategic partnerships can utilize other company's strengths to make both firms stronger in the long run.

On July 1, 1992, in order to meet growing demand, the Chinese government opened the legal services market to foreign law firms allowing them to establish offices in China when the Ministry of Justice and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce ( SAOIC ) issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

Firms are responsible for compliance with government regulations and internal regulations.

Firms like Mitsui and Sumitomo were led by non-family managers such as Minomura Rizaemon, who guided the business by accurately forecasting the coming political and economic situations, by acquaintance with high-ranking government officials or politicians, and bold investment.

On July 1, 1992, in order to meet growing demand, the Chinese government opened the legal services market to foreign law firms allowing them to establish offices in China when the Ministry of Justice and the State Administration of Industry and Commerce ( SAOIC ) issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

Firms that design and build food processing plants, consulting firms, government agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and health-care firms also hire food engineers.

Only on July 1, 1992, in contrast, did the PRC government open her legal services market to foreign law firms when the Ministry of Justice issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

* Firms switching to electric power and using the same equipment showed significant increases in production.

Firms that need to increase their volume of emissions must buy permits from those who require fewer permits.

Firms that specialize in delivering commercial goods from point of production or storage to point of sale are generally known as distributors, while those that specialize in the delivery of goods to the consumer are known as delivery services.

Firms that gain new practice areas or departments through recruiting or mergers that are more complex and demanding ( and typically more profitable ) may see the focus, organization and resources of the firm shift dramatically towards those new departments.

Firms like power companies, cable television companies and wireless communication companies with large start up costs fall within this category.

Firms started highlighting their ethical stature in the late 1980s and early 1990s, possibly trying to distance themselves from the business scandals of the day, such as the savings and loan crisis.

Firms under imperfect competition have the potential to be " price makers ", which means that, by holding a disproportionately high share of market power, they can influence the prices of their products.

Firms combine labour and capital, and can achieve far greater economies of scale ( when the average cost per unit declines as more units are produced ) than individual market trading.

Firms are often small to medium in size and operate in the building and building materials ( Rome, Civitavecchia ), paper ( Sora ), petrochemical ( Gaeta, Rome ), textile ( Frosinone ), engineering ( Rieti, Anagni ), automobile ( Cassino ), electronic and electrotechnical ( Viterbo ) sectors.

Firms often collude in an attempt to stabilize unstable markets, so as to reduce the risks inherent in these markets for investment and product development.

* Council of Public Relations Firms U. S. trade association for public relations firms

* Juliet D ’ Souza, William L. Megginson ( 1999 ), " The Financial and Operating Performance of Privatised Firms during the 1990s ", Journal of Finance August 1999

Firms with superior software thus have an incentive to offer samples, except if their product is already well known, or if they do not want to be listed in direct competition with other products on shareware repositories.

Firms will produce additional output as long as the cost of producing an extra unit of output is less than the price they will receive.

Firms are required to hold a number of permits ( or allowances or carbon credits ) equivalent to their emissions.

Firms that keep their emission levels below their allotted level may sell their surplus permits to other firms or use them to offset excess emissions in other parts of their facilities.

Firms will choose the least-cost way to comply with the pollution regulation, which will lead to reductions where the least expensive solutions exist, while allowing emissions that are more expensive to reduce.

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Firms would make rational decisions by weighing the sacrifices involved.

Firms such as Boeing, General Motors, Allen-Bradley, Chrysler, Eaton, and Whirlpool have worked on fuzzy logic for use in low-power refrigerators, improved automotive transmissions, and energy-efficient electric motors.

Ernst & Young was ranked No. 1 in the Forbes Magazine < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s The Best Accounting Firms to Work For in 2012, claiming that EY treats its employees better than other big firms.

The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets, Relational Contracting.

Firms hire them because they see the inflation as allowing higher profits for given nominal wages.

Firms face a kinked demand curve if, when one firm decreases its price, other firms will follow suit in order to maintain sales, and when one firm increases its price, its rivals are unlikely to follow, as they would lose the sales ' gains that they would otherwise get by holding prices at the previous level.

The flow of electrons is always from anode to cathode outside of the cell or device, regardless of the cell or device type and operating mode, with the exception of diodes, where electrode naming always assumes current in the forward direction ( that of the arrow symbol ), i. e., electrons flow in the opposite direction, even when the diode reverse-conducts either by accident ( breakdown of a normal diode ) or by design ( breakdown of a Zener diode, photo-current of a photodiode or solar cell ).

The flow of electrons is almost always from anode to cathode outside of the cell or device, regardless of the cell or device type and operating mode.

This is the operating principal of the Faraday cage, a conducting metal shell which isolates its interior from outside electrical effects.

The fictional secret agent is more often a loner, sometimes amoral — an existential hero operating outside the everyday constraints of society.

However since the mid-1990s, with home computers that could run Unix-like operating systems and with inexpensive internet home access being available for the first time, many people from outside of the academic world started to take part in the programmer subculture of hacking.

As Roel Sterckx observes, " The use of dog sacrifices at the gates and doors of the living and the dead as well as its use in travel sacrifices suggest that dogs were perceived as daemonic animals operating in the liminal or transitory realm between the domestic and the unknown, danger-stricken outside world ".

* Expatriate insurance provides individuals and organizations operating outside of their home country with protection for automobiles, property, health, liability and business pursuits.

Flights operating under VFR are flown solely by reference to outside visual cues ( horizon, buildings, flora, etc.

However, any aircraft operating under VFR must have the required equipment on board, as described in FAR Part 91. 205 ( which includes instruments necessary for IFR flight ); but the view outside of the aircraft is the primary source for keeping the aircraft straight and level ( orientation ), flying where you intended to fly ( navigation ), and for not hitting anything ( separation ).

The economy continues to be dominated by an unproductive agricultural sector operating largely outside the money economy and in which the public sector continues to play a dominant role.

Lint first appeared ( outside of Bell Labs ) in the seventh version ( V7 ) of the Unix operating system in 1979.

* Underground economy, a market system operating outside of legal regulations

Outside major cities and ski resorts, tourist season typically begins Victoria Day continuing to Labour Day or Thanksgiving ; motels would be largely vacant ( operating at slightly reduced prices or occasionally closed ) for the winter, while campgrounds would be effectively unusable outside the high season.

Over time, some PDP-10 operators began running operating systems assembled from major components developed outside DEC. For example, the main Scheduler might come from one university, the Disk Service from another, and so on.

Clark is more capable of bending the rules and operating outside the law than Ryan is, so Clancy uses him in grittier roles.

In the United States, a pilot operating VFR outside of class B airspace can request " VFR flight following " from ATC.

Interestingly, the PDP-1 has a hardware built-in loader, such that an operator need only push the " load " switch to instruct the paper tape reader to load a program directly into core memory ; the boot loader reads into core memory either the second-stage boot loader ( called Binary Loader of paper tape with checksum ) or the operating system from an outside storage medium such as a paper tape, a punched card, or a disk drive.

There are generally four operating environments or classes covering all outside plant ( OSP ) applications, including wireless facilities.

* Unconscious mind, the mind operating well outside the attention of the conscious mind as defined by Sigmund Freud and others

* Terror, a political strategy of the asymmetrical use of threats and violence against enemies using means that fall outside the routine forms of political struggle operating within some current regime

The warp-testing of this vessel would garner the attention of a Vulcan science ship operating just outside of the Solar System.

Another condition that can cause problems on Windows XP is when there are network drives defined but in an error condition ( as they would be on a laptop operating outside the network ).

A user program which attempts to access memory outside the allowed range ( that is, with an address which is not less than FL ) will trigger an interrupt, and will be terminated by the operating system.