He did become interested in French politics, and at the age of 26 he obtained a position as a tax collector in the Ferme Générale, a tax farming company, where he attempted to introduce reforms in the French monetary and taxation system to help the peasants.

" A number of attempted fire insurance schemes came to nothing, but in 1681 Nicholas Barbon, and eleven associates, established England's first fire insurance company, the ' Insurance Office for Houses ', at the back of the Royal Exchange.

As part of the upgrading process, the government has attempted to sell a majority interest in the state-owned telecommunications company, Kyrgyztelecom, to foreign bidders.

Ironically, Batman ultimately learns that the entire debacle was the fault of Luthor alone as he attempted to take control of Gotham by forging deeds for the land in his name, which results in Bruce Wayne severing all commercial ties between the U. S. government and his company, Wayne Enterprises, in protest of Luthor's election as President.

If a PC company attempted to increase prices above the market level all its customers would abandon the company and purchase at the market price from other companies.

* Phoenix Finance, British banking company that attempted to enter Formula One racing

Another example in which Whorf attempted to show that language use affects behavior came from his experience in his day job as a chemical engineer working for an insurance company as a fire inspector.

In summer 1790 Haydn attempted to produce the work with his own company at Eszterháza, but was prevented from doing so by the death of his patron, Nikolaus Esterházy.

Hazel Scaife attempted to bring the company to trial, but was blocked by the Department of Justice.

When producer Anthony Taylor attempted to prepare Incubus for home video release in 1993, he was told by the company that stored the negative, film elements, and prints, that all were missing and presumed to have been destroyed in a fire.

In addition, the company, especially in the early 1990s, attempted to collect licensing fees based on copyright and trade dress claims from invitational tournaments that employed formats that it claimed were similar to College Bowl, and threatened not to allow schools that failed to pay these fees to compete in College Bowl events.

Several short-lived Comets reunions were attempted in the 1970s and 1980s, including one contingent ( organized by Baltimore-based piano player Joey Welz who played piano for the Comets during the summer of 1965 ) that appeared on The Tomorrow Show, and another run by an Elvis Presley impersonator named Joey Rand ( this group later lost a legal action over the right to use the Comets name ), but only one group was officially sent out to perform by Haley himself, and his management / production company, which were the official Comets who played with Haley throughout the 1960s and 1970s and continued to perform as the Comets between gigs and during Haley's retirement.

This was imposed in Britain in 1990 after the US Smokeless Tobacco company attempted to bring pouches of snuff ( i. e. ground tobacco ) for oral use, called Skoal Bandits, to market.

One of its first peripherals was a tape transport, which led to some internal wrangling as the Peripherals Equipment Division attempted to find a reasonable way to charge other divisions of the company for supplying the devices.

This has led insecurity from some TABs in Australia, state-run betting agencies which attempted to deny Betfair an Australian license by running unfavorable ads in the media regarding the company.

In 1996, Rossetto and the other participants in Wired Ventures attempted to take the company public with an IPO.

In 1714 one of the directors who had been sponsored by Harley, Arthur Moore, had attempted to send 60 tons of private goods on board the company ship.

The self-described " special situations investment fund management company " has previously attempted to gain control of Derby County and Manchester City ; former footballer Ray Ranson was involved with both bids, and SISU intended to nominate him for a place on the Southampton board.

That December, the railroad company attempted to merge the turnpike company into theirs, but faced opposition.

An " active " IBO is qualified on the IBO Registration form: Based on an independent survey during 2001, “ Active ” means an IBO attempted to make a retail sale, or presented the Independent Business Ownership Plan, or received bonus money, or attended a company or IBO meeting in the year 2000.

In 2011, a cellular phone company attempted to build a twelve panel antenna array cell site in Val Verde, less than 50 feet from the next door neighbor.

A company of 25-30 men was formed and returned to the valley to ascertain the fate of those who had attempted to settle for the winter.

In 1818, a man named Killam briefly attempted to start a logging company, but abandoned the island after the large steam-powered boat he used to transport wood to the mainland wrecked and sank.

The directors sold directly to concessionaires, who had to make their profits above the high prices asked by the company.

And think, if we all knew this secret and we could pool our power, what a wonderful public utility company we would make.

His new firm was initially called Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH, but following a legal dispute over the Horch name, he decided to make another automobile company.

Potter was a generous patron of the Girl Guides whose troops she allowed to make their summer encampments on her lands and whose company she enjoyed as an older woman.

The director may require the company to circulate any representations that he wishes to make.

That is, a company may sell a printer at cost, and make profits on the ink cartridge, paper, or some other replacement part.

In 2001, he collaborated with design company IDEO to come up with the “ perfect cubicle ”, a fitting creation since many of the Dilbert strips make fun of the standard cubicle desk and the environment it creates.

In France, the Lumière company sent cameramen all round the world from 1896 onwards to shoot films, which were exhibited locally by the cameramen, and then sent back to the company factory in Lyon to make prints for sale to whoever wanted them.

Their studio became the first independent company of directors since United Artists in 1919 whose goal was to make films without interference by studio bosses.

O ' Brien was introduced to producer John Beck who promised to find a studio to make the film ( at this point in time RKO was no longer a production company ).

Shortly before the trial Eiffel had announced his intention to resign from the Board of Directors of the Compagnie des Establissments Eiffel, and did so at a General Meeting held on 14 February, saying " I have absolutely decided to abstain from any participation in any manufacturing business from now on, and so that no one can be misled and to make it most evident that I intend to remain absolutely uninvolved with the management of the establishments which bear my name, I wish to that my name should disappear from the name of the company.

They are expected to make regular reports to the company and to deliver a product at the end of the year.

A hedge fund is usually a company or partnership set up solely to make investments, and has no employees and no assets other than its investments.

In order to make IKEA a more sustainable company a product life cycle has been created, and there is now a never ending list.

The first personal computer to make use of the 80386 was designed and manufactured by Compaq and marked the first time a fundamental component in the IBM PC compatible de facto-standard was updated by a company other than IBM.

Franklin's company was the first to make contributions toward fire prevention.

In the case of an unintentional disclosure of material non-public information to one person, the company must make a public disclosure " promptly.

Even though in general, ordinary relations between directors and shareholders in a business corporation are not of such a fiduciary nature as to make it the duty of a director to disclose to a shareholder the general knowledge which he may possess regarding the value of the shares of the company before he purchases any from a shareholder, yet there are cases where, by reason of the special facts, such duty exists.

You want to give the people most likely to have knowledge about deficiencies of the company an incentive to make the public aware of that.

The Army felt that the Bantam company was too small to supply the number of vehicles it needed, so it supplied the Bantam design to Willys and Ford who were encouraged to make their own changes and modifications.

It inspired the Filmation cartoons production company to make a 1970 series called Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down, with Jerry as the one reality-based character alongside other fictitious one, including fictionalized Lewis relatives.

Although Gibson was not the first commercial producer to make an electric guitar, the company made the first successfully-marketed electric guitar, the ES150 in 1936.

The company began to make steel cannons in the 1840s — especially for the Russian, Turkish, and Prussian armies.

Konix turned to their sister company Creative Devices Ltd, a computer hardware developer, to design a gaming computer to be put inside the controller to make it a stand-alone console in its own right.