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.

Cattle stealing and killing, again serious during the spring of 1891, placed the land grant company officers in a perplexing position.

His completes his denunciation of Haeckel by pronouncing that Haeckel had “‘ relinquished the right to count as an equal in the company of serious researchers .’”

At the time the company was in serious financial trouble, and with the STAR in the pipeline as well, Norris simply could not invest the money.

Ironically, Allan Loughead himself had planned to bid for his own company, but had raised " only " $ 50, 000 ($), which he felt was too small a sum for a serious bid.

The childhood and adolescence that Shearer once described as " a pleasant dream " ended in 1918, when her older sister, Athole, suffered her first serious mental breakdown and her father's company collapsed.

NCR had made its first ATM in the late 1970s with widespread installations of the model 770 in National Westminster and Barclays Banks throughout the UK, but it was not until the Model 5070, developed at its Dundee plant in Scotland and introduced in 1983 that the company began to make more serious inroads into the ATM market.

The company failed to report 42 serious injuries in the period from 2008 to 2011.

The firm was in serious financial trouble until, that year, another company, a distressed oil properties specialist Harken Energy, purchased Spectrum 7.

One of these, the Lehigh Brick and Tile company, won the contract to provide paving brick for Dubuque, Iowa in 1896, but suffered a serious fire in late 1897.

The company was unable to fully satisfy either the casual or serious model building market, and was one of the first companies to abandon model kits when the hobby started its decline, selling AMT to the Ertl Company and shutting down its own kit division less than twenty years after starting it.

There was a serious disagreement between Lorimar Films, the production company, and Ashby with respect to the final scene of the film, before the end credits.

When the board of directors rejected Disney's request for an extension of his term as board member, he announced his resignation on November 30, 2003, citing " serious differences of opinion about the direction and style of management " in the company.

The company had serious funding problems.

A collapse of the telecommunications markets from mid-2000 dealt a serious blow to the company.

Historian Wolfgang Schneider calls into question Wittmann's tactical ability, claiming " a competent tank company commander does not accumulate so many serious mistakes ".

Their MIPS-based workstations were quickly losing the performance lead they had in the early 1990s, and the company was in serious trouble as the average PC slowly but surely encroached on the high-end graphics market.

When the Navy cancelled Brewster's last contract, for assembly of the F3A-1 Corsair, the company was in serious trouble.

In the morning of the February 4 the situation was becoming more serious, the Irish Guards only had one cohesive company left and on the opposite side of the salient, the companies of the 6th Gordon Highlanders were beginning to crumble.

Calling into question Wittmann's tactical decisions, Schneider claims that " a competent tank company commander does not accumulate so many serious mistakes ".

It seems that he was not proud of his job ; secrecy about his employment by the company is widely seen as a desire to present himself as a serious artist but the secrecy extended beyond the art world into his social circle.

The series is mostly based on the on-going battle between the staff of GlobeLink, led by editor George Dent, as they try to maintain the company as a serious news organisation, and Sir Roysten ’ s right-hand man Gus Hedges, trying to make the show more sensationalist and suppress stories that might harm Sir Roysten ’ s business empire.

This caused a serious cash-flow problem for the company and led to its bankruptcy in 1931.

MR. CHANNING ( Northamptonshire, E .) I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether 11 years ago, in reporting upon a serious collision on the Great Northern of Ireland Railway, between two portions of a train which had become separated, General Hutchinson pointed out to the Company that an automatic brake would have absolutely prevented the collision, by arresting the carriages the moment the separation occurred ; whether at that time the secretary of the company informed General Hutchinson that the simple vacuum brake, whose failure caused this accident, was being merely tried experimentally on the line, and that the company had not yet come to a decision as to what brake would be finally adopted ; and, whether, in spite of this recommendation, this simple vacuum brake, upon the failure of which General Hutchinson reported in 1878, has remained in use on the Great Northern of Ireland line ever since, and is the same brake that was in use in the recent disastrous collision near Armagh?