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 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.

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

* General Equilibrium with Price-Making Firms ( with Thomas Marschak ), Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Berlin-Heidelberg-New York: Springer-Verlag.

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.

Santa Clara's Law Firms Rank Schools ranked 96th with its Part-time Law ranking 48th place.

They are also sometimes called SPIFS ( Stamps Perforated with Initials of Firms and Societies ).

In recent years, more than 30 monographs written by our teachers or researchers were awarded the provincial level or the national ministry level prize, in which Study on China Agriculture Insurance with the Social Guarantee System, China's 50-Year Enterprise Theories, Research on Minority-Population Policy of China, Operational Mode to Father Firms and Economics Development with the Practical ‘ Think-Tanker ’** Theory were respectively awarded the first-class prize of the 8th-issue selected excellent achievements on philosophy and social science of Beijing ; the second-class prize of the 3rd-issue humane study of the Ministry of National Education and the best book prize of China's 14th issue ; the first-class excellent achievement prize of the second issue social science of Chongqing Municipality, and the first-class excellent achievement prize of philosophy and social science of Beijing's 7th and the 8th issue.

Firms faced with lack of pricing power sometimes turn to yield management as a last resort.

Firms in such industries become more profitable with size.

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

The Headhunters or originally the ' Chelsea Shed boys ' can trace their roots to the late 1960s, when football hooliganism was in its infancy and along with West Ham's ' Mile End Mob ' were one of the original Football Firms.

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

Firms compete by setting prices simultaneously and consumers want to buy everything from a firm with a lower price ( since the product is homogeneous and there are no consumer search costs ).

Firms provide consumers with goods and services in exchange for consumer expenditure and " factors of production " from households.

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.

The individual equity partners of Arthur Andersen LLP and the other firms associated with it became the individual members of the SC and the firms themselves became Member Firms by signing a formal agreement with the SC.

Organised chit fund schemes are required to register with the Registrar or Firms, Societies and Chits.

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

Firms can also assess the quality of customer experience with the shops with the use of mystery shoppers.

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.

On September 15, 2010, Sherman & Howard received 32 rankings in the U. S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers 2010 Best Law Firms rankings, which are presented in tiers both nationally and by state or metropolitan area.

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 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.

Firms competing for overseas contracts have sometimes argued in the press for equal chances during the bidding process, such as when American oil corporations wanted equal shots at developing oil fields in Sumatra ; and firms, seeing how fairness is beneficial while competing for contracts, can apply the lesson to other areas such as internal hiring and promotion decisions.

Firms such as Ruston and Bucyrus made models such as the RB10 which were popular for small building works and drainage work.

Firms such as Archer Dry Transfers or Decalomaniacs produce stand-alone sheets of wet or dry transfer markings to allow the modeler to complete a different or more accurate variant.

Firms that rely on sweepstakes for attracting customers, such as Publishers Clearing House and Reader's Digest, have also found that the more involved the entry process, the more entrants, in a similar way to casinos inventing games that appear to rely partly on skill.

Firms believe that such individuals have excellent legal research and writing skills, and a strong command of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

Firms offering such services differ in the range of services provided, but can include art purchase financing, art secured lending, art insurance, art appraisal, provenance verification, market research, curatorial services, art investment advice, and personal shopping services.

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.

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

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.

Firms can spend as little as one or two months raising capital when they are able to reach the target that they set for their funds relatively easily, often through gaining commitments from existing investors in their previous funds, or where strong past performance leads to strong levels of investor interest.

Firms are able to apply their core competencies, business model or network to achieve a profit above the industry average.

* Firms are never too sure about the shape of their demand curve neither are they very sure about the probable response to any price change.

Firms which produce these do so in so small production lots that they are necessarily made of white metal.

Firms which have been found to have violated some of the requirements of the H-1B program are also treated as though they were H-1B dependent employers for a probationary period.

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

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 experiencing increasing returns to scale are also experiencing decreasing average total costs.

Firms that encompass both fab work and machining are also common.

Firms must determine when lost sales due to not having product on the shelves are balanced by increased handling and storage costs.