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.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

I felt very flattered to be included in the protection of their company even though I had nothing to be protected from.

But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.

During the night, a phone company technician had deadened the bells and installed red blinkers on the phones.

The men of our company had a dozen fights defending your name.

He had become the center of the company, such stories he had to tell.

Letch had made it abundantly clear that he did not care for the company of my own precious daughter.

On February 17, Russell and Cook were sent to the Pena Flor community on the Vermejo to see about renting out ranches the company had purchased.

Half a mile below at the mouth of Salyer's Canyon was an old ranch that the company had purchased from A. J. Armstrong, occupied by a Mexican, his wife, and an old trapper.

Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent, who had broken with his parents in order to keep the company he preferred -- pimps, panders and whores.

A road had to be hacked through trackless forests between Hanover and Portsmouth to permit Governor Wentworth and a company of gentlemen to attend the first Dartmouth commencement in 1771.

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

The concessionaires also had to pay a tax of one-tenth on the goods they traded, and all pelts were to be taken to company stores and shipped to France in company ships.

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 ).

City Controller Alexander Hemphill charged Tuesday that the bids on the Frankford Elevated repair project were rigged to the advantage of a private contracting company which had `` an inside track '' with the city.

The Leningrad Kirov Ballet, which opened a series of performances Friday night at the Opera House, is, I think, the finest `` classical '' ballet company I have ever seen, and the production of the Petipa-Tschaikowsky `` Sleeping Beauty '' with which it began the series is incomparably the finest I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.

Stuart had been laid off at the produce company and had to go back to sitting in his father's office, taking what salary his father could hand out to him.

He was not reduced to poverty, but his job at the steel company had become a real job and not a method of passing the day.

So when old Mr. Lovejoy, the company president, talked about putting in a single sales manager for both branches after the head of the regular steels had gone with Carnegie-Illinois, it looked like the perfect chance for Bobbie.

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.

and the laughter and the happiness are even more pronounced when no company is present.

There was no room for company in the tiny Weaning House ( where the Albright boys always took their brides, till they could get a house and a farm of their own ).

With no company to interfere, he kept close control over all the traders.

The owner of a public relations firm owed no income tax on payments he received from a client company and `` kicked back '' to the company's advertising manager, the Tax Court ruled.

They viewed society like a modern stock company: democracy is like a company where all shareholders have an equal say regardless of the scale of their holding ; one share or ten thousand, it makes no difference.

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.

These interpretations have been denied by company officials, and no evidence linking the company to any occult organization has ever been presented.

Borland survived as a company, but no longer had the dominance in software tools that it once had.

Worst of all, the highest revenue earner of the combined company was dBASE with no Windows version ready.

BOEN is no longer exempt from company law disclosure requirements.

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.

Although no cable company released data as to what such a monitoring service would cost, the end-result was that no cable company elected to carry the station, either, leaving many Arabic-speaking Canadians using free-to-air satellite dishes to watch the station.

While this agreement reportedly kept the company in existence, it also left RuneQuest moribund, leading to products of questionable quality, long gaps with no products published at all, and, eventually, the death of the game altogether.

The members guarantee the payment of certain ( usually nominal ) amounts if the company goes into insolvent liquidation, but otherwise they have no economic rights in relation to the company.

Such “ point solutions ” offer little or no integration or alignment with a company ’ s overall strategy.

He advises choosing ones company carefully, to avoid being corrupted by immoral people, and while arguing that material wealth is no sin in itself, it is too likely to distract one from the infinitely more important spiritual wealth which is found in Christ.

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.

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.

The best known aircraft of this type were manufactured by the German Zeppelin company.

The prize was originally known as the Booker-McConnell Prize, after the company Booker-McConnell began sponsoring the event in 1968 ; it became commonly known as the " Booker Prize " or simply " the Booker.

The latter became well known for her reconstructions of baroque ballets for London's " Ballet for All " company in the 1960s.

The carcinogenity of chromate dust is known for a long time, and in 1890 the first publication described the elevated cancer risk of workers in a chromate dye company.

* Cortex Pharmaceuticals, a pharmaceutical company based in Irvine, California specializing in positive allosteric modulators of the AMPA receptor known as Ampakines

The German company Jordan & Timaeus sold the first known chocolate bar made from cocoa, sugar and goat's milk in 1839.

Some contracts, known as executory contracts, may be rejected if canceling them would be financially favorable to the company and its creditors.

In a joint-stock company the members are known as shareholders and their share in the ownership, control and profits of the corporation is determined by the portion of shares in the company that they own.

* Commodore International ( also known as Commodore Business Machines ), a computer company founded in 1954 and declared bankrupt in 1994, or several of its products and affiliates, including:

* CCC Film, a film production company in Germany, formally known as Central Cinema Compagnie-Film GmbH

By 1959, the company had dealers across the U. S. and began selling the 310 ( known as Bluebird domestically ).

One of the first well known models is the made by the Korg company.

Dutch West India Company (; ) was a chartered company ( known as the " WIC ") of Dutch merchants.

Arnaz's company would be succeeded-in-interest by the company now known as Desilu, Too.

In the Ophite and Sethian systems, which have many affinities with that last mentioned, the making of the world is ascribed to a company of seven archons, whose names are given, but their chief, “ Yaldabaoth ” ( also known as " Yaltabaoth " or " Ialdabaoth ") comes into still greater prominence.

He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002, more than any other company founder in television history.

Despite the official names " National Comics " and " National Periodical Publications ", the line used the logo " Superman-DC " throughout ( the DC logo could be seen on their covers and ads as early as 1940 ), and the company became known colloquially as DC Comics for years before the official adoption of that name in 1977.

Towards the close of the 5th century a great company of monks known as the Nine Saints are believed to have established themselves in the country.

The following year she and her husband organized an opera company known by her name ( the Abbott English Opera Company ), which toured extensively throughout the United States.

The best known: Guru ( USA ) inspired by Mycin, Personal Consultant Plus ( USA ), Nexpert Object ( developed by Neuron Data, company founded in California by three French ), Genesia ( developed by French public company Electricité de France and marketed by Steria ), VP Expert ( USA ).