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.

Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $ 10 to 20 million and employs a staff of approximately 50 to 99.

SolarCity, the company responsible for designing the array, estimates that the solar panels installed on eBay's campus will prevent 37 million pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the environment as a result of replaced power production over the next three decades.

The company stopped paying Pinkerton in late 1788, as the costs were exceeding the original estimates, and the contract was taken away from them in February 1789.

In May 2004, the company missed quarterly estimates for the first time and suffered its first loss as a public company.

When developing a business plan for a new or existing company, product, or project, planners typically make cost estimates in order to assess whether revenues / benefits will cover costs ( see cost-benefit analysis ).

James estimates the company owed him $ 30 – 40 million in royalties he never received.

The company estimates the development potential of the Applebee's concept in the United States to be at least 3, 000 restaurants.

This character, along with the " Ernest " character, ran for a couple of years in Mississippi and Louisiana in commercials for Leadco Aluminum Siding, a company that would provide estimates for placing aluminum siding on a home.

Straight-line depreciation is the simplest and most-often-used technique, in which the company estimates the salvage value of the asset at the end of the period during which it will be used to generate revenues ( useful life ) and will expense a portion of original cost in equal increments over that period.

" Tips for selecting a good handyman include: ask questions, get written estimates on company stationery, make sure handymen guarantee their work, pay with credit cards or checks because this provides an additional record of each transaction, check references and licenses, and review feedback about the contractors from Internet sites.

A special promotion of Gillette razors and blueblades sold four times better than company estimates and Gillette sought additional sports sponsorships.

Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $ 10 to 20 million and employs a staff of approximately 10 to 19.

A study by the Stockholm Environment Institute which was granted access to McKinsey ’ s data set found considerable discrepancies between the company ’ s estimates of the costs for reducing deforestation rates and those assumed by most renowned scientific models.

Maersk Line estimates that piracy costs the company $ 100 million per year due to longer routes and higher speed, particularly near East Africa.

The suits charged the company with falsifying test reports for relay devices sold to the US government for weapons and spacecraft use, and with padding government contract cost estimates.

According to BizJournals. com, Entravision estimates that its TV stations reach about 92 % of the Hispanic community in Denver, making it an ideal advertising opportunity for any company who would like to reach that segment of the population ( 33 % of Denver ).

The company estimates that around 5, 000 were built before World War II stopped production.

Shortly afterward, the company announced earnings for the first quarter of 2007 that were below analyst estimates, even though management had earlier made a rare positive preannouncement on revenue.

The government's intent was apparently to raise doubts about the accuracy of the report in several areas and in particular, the manner in which projected cost estimates had been calculated ( based on figures developed by the independent IT analysis company, Kable ), and what it called " selective and misleading use of evidence regarding biometrics and a failure to include any natural scientists to inform the report despite the significant claims made about biometrics and the accuracy of biometric technologies ".

Brad Wardell estimates that the death of OS / 2 set the company back by about three years.

In place of these, Gowen proposed his own reorganization plan based, one more time, upon optimistic earnings estimates and his ability to attract new money into the company.

As of 2009, the company estimates this treatment will take " a number of years to complete " Phase III trials before it can go to market.

Soule also uses the company to sell " expansion packs " of music for games such as Guild Wars that can be played in game like the rest of the soundtrack ; he estimates that at least 10 % of the players of Guild Wars have bought an expansion pack of music from DirectSong.