As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

Decca is not the only large commercial company to impart instruction.

It leases the whole facility to a large oil company, at least large enough to have a strong credit position.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

But jolly old Uncle Donald would tell her no more than that Bobbie had certainly been considered for the job, but there were factors in a large company which outsiders and even some insiders couldn't understand.

Ford was the first company to build large factories around the assembly line concept.

Every telephone company, whether large or small, determines its own ANAC for each individual central office, which tends to perpetuate the current situation of a mess of overlapping and / or spotty areas of coverage.

As the " small Aston " DB7 would require a large engineering input, Ford agreed to take full control of Aston Martin, and Gauntlett handed over the company chairmanship to Hayes in 1991.

The standard example is the stock of a company, undervalued in the stock market, which is about to be the object of a takeover bid ; the price of the takeover will more truly reflect the value of the company, giving a large profit to those who bought at the current price — if the merger goes through as predicted.

Beginning in June 1907, Peter Behrens ' pioneering industrial design work for the German electrical company AEG successfully integrated art and mass production on a large scale.

However, as the market for large systems shifted from proprietary architectures to common servers, the company eventually dropped the V-Series line, although V-series systems were still in use by customers as of 2010.

* Chief Investment Officer or CIO – high-level corporate officer responsible for the assets of an investment vehicle or investment management company and / or responsible for the asset-liability management ( ALM ) of typical large financial institutions such as insurers, banks and / or pension funds ; generally reports to the CEO or CFO.

In early 2009 the company attracted further criticism for continuing plans to build the 162 in China while laying off large numbers of workers in the USA.

These " coupon settlements " ( which usually allow the plaintiffs to receive a small benefit such as a small check or a coupon for future services or products with the defendant company ) are a way for a defendant to forestall major liability by precluding a large number of people from litigating their claims separately, to recover reasonable compensation for the damages.

Since the design of such high-end chips nominally takes about five years to complete, to stay competitive a company has to fund at least two of these large design teams to release products at the rate of 2. 5 years per product generation.

While Compaq shareholders unanimously approved the deal, there was a public proxy battle within HP as the deal was strongly opposed by numerous large HP shareholders, including the sons of the company founders, Walter Hewlett and David W. Packard, as well as the California Public Employees ’ Retirement System ( Calpers ) and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

The word “ frooglepoopillion ” is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number.

Small changes in inputs can result in large changes in the value of a company.

The Royal Lyceum Theatre has its own company, while the King's Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Theatre, and Edinburgh Playhouse stage large touring shows.

HPES's clients are located around the globe and many are very large companies and governments that need services from a company of HP's scale.

United Technologies Corporation's UTC Power subsidiary was the first company to manufacture and commercialize a large, stationary fuel cell system for use as a co-generation power plant in hospitals, universities and large office buildings.

Each questionnaire was audited for obvious mistakes and for comments, and was identified by a serial number, by the source list from which the company name was selected, and by the geographical location of the company as determined by the postmark on the return envelope.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

Word reached the company that the man behind these depredations was Manuel Gonzales, a man with many followers, including a number who were kept in line through fear of him.

Other witnesses, after appearances before the jury, which reportedly is probing into possible income tax violations, disclosed that government prosecutors were attempting to connect Stein and his company with a number of gangsters, including Glimco and Alex.

The number on the tile indicates how many shares the stock market owns in the company that is being acquired.

An automatic number announcement circuit ( ANAC ) is a special telephone number that is meant to be used by phone company technicians and other telecommunications technicians to determine the phone number of a particular line.

Because this system is based on automatic number identification ( not caller ID ) and meant for phone company technicians, the ANAC system works with unlisted numbers, numbers with caller ID blocking, and numbers with no outgoing calls allowed.

However, if the phone you are dialling these numbers from is already registered with this company it will not announce your number.

* 1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.

Later that year, Bill Renwick, Augustus ( Bert ) Bertelli and a number of rich investors, including Lady Charnwood, took control of the company and renamed it Aston Martin Motors, and moved it to the former Whitehead Aircraft Limited works in Feltham.

A convertible bond is a bond that an investor can return to the issuing company in exchange for a predetermined number of shares in the company.

PolyGram ( London Records ' parent company at that time ) had pressed a number of promo singles and 12 " versions of the song, sending them out to both radio and record stores in the UK.

The number of years varies depending on the company issuing the report, but the report will eventually cease to record that information.

Within the corporate office or corporate center of a company, some companies have a Chairman and CEO as the top ranking executive, while the number two is the President and COO ; other companies have a President and CEO but no official deputy.

On 4 November 2008 Cessna's parent company, Textron, indicated that Citation production would be reduced from the original 2009 target of 535 " due to continued softening in the global economic environment " and that this would result in an undetermined number of lay-offs at Cessna.

It was announced in February 2011 that the company name would revert to Meritor, Inc. Cummins, Inc. is by far the region's largest employer, and the Infotech Park accounts for a sizable number of research jobs in Columbus proper.

A number of licensed versions were released in Europe, including the Luxor Video Entertainment System in Scandinavia ( Sweden ), Adman Grandstand in the UK, and the Saba Videoplay, Nordmende Teleplay and ITT Tele-Match Processor, from Germany and also Dumont Videoplay and Barco Challenger from the Barco / Dumont company in Italy and Belgium.

He founded a new company, Tramel Technology ( spelled differently so people would pronounce it correctly ), and hired away a number of Commodore engineers to begin work on a next-generation computer design.

Besides a number of appearances in films produced by her company, Flower Films, including Charlie's Angels, Barrymore had a dramatic role in the comedy / drama Riding in Cars with Boys ( 2001 ), playing a teenage mother in a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father ( based on the real-life story of Beverly D ' Onofrio ).

With news arriving of the Battle of Hattin, he took the cross at Tours in the company of other French nobles.

On 20 January 1327, Edward II was informed at Kenilworth Castle of the charges brought against him: The King was guilty of incompetence ; allowing others to govern him to the detriment of the people and Church ; not listening to good advice and pursuing occupations unbecoming to a monarch ; having lost Scotland and lands in Gascony and Ireland through failure of effective governance ; damaging the Church, and imprisoning its representatives ; allowing nobles to be killed, disinherited, imprisoned and exiled ; failing to ensure fair justice, instead governing for profit and allowing others to do likewise ; and of fleeing in the company of a notorious enemy of the realm, leaving it without government, and thereby losing the faith and trust of his people.

In February 1406, James, in the company of nobles loyal to King Robert III, clashed with those of the Earl of Douglas, forcing the prince to take temporary refuge on the Bass Rock in the Forth estuary.

As the Darien company was backed by about a quarter of the money circulating in Scotland, its failure left the nobles and landowners – who had suffered a run of bad harvests – almost completely ruined and was an important factor in weakening their resistance to the Act of Union ( finally consummated in 1707 ).

Notably, on the vanguard's left wing ( later covering the left flank ), a company composed by some two hundred unmarried young nobles is remembered to history as the " Ala dos Namorados " ( Sweethearts ' Flank ); the right wing, also two hundred strong, known as " Ala de Madressilva " or Honeysuckle Flank, didn't achieve the same heroic fame.

Many young nobles of the republic desired her company.