In my own company, in effect a partnership, although legally a corporation, I have been able to do many things for my employees which `` normal '' corporations of comparable size and nature would have been unable to do.

Either it is lack of training, lack of proper screening when hiring, lack of management or possibly lack of interest on the part of the telephone company, which does have a Government-blessed monopoly.

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.

Thus was invented the single thread sewing machine, which Mr. Gibbs in partnership with Mr. Willcox decided to bring to Brown & Sharpe with the proposal that the small company undertake its manufacture.

Recently added is the Brown & Sharpe turret drilling machine which introduces the company to an entirely new field of tool development.

Also available from this company are Snug-Grip Plasti-Bars, extruded of transparent acrylic material, which may be cemented to any corrugated acrylic background material.

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.

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 ).

This let me in for a lot of kidding from the rest of the company, two members of which were native Chicagoans.

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.

His company, Spice-Nice, will receive a $250 award, which will be distributed among the 16 charter members.

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.

Government attorneys, Leavitt said, have questioned him closely about `` five or six loans '' totaling about $40,000 which the liquor company made to Stein in the last year.

The Supreme Court decision in mid-1960 was in the case of a company making sewer pipe from clay which it mined.

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.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

In her dark, scornful fashion she proceeded to her destination, afraid of nothing, not even the evil spirits which kept her company in her time of bleeding.

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.

He created the production and distribution company Esperanto Films, which has credits on the films Duck Season and Pan's Labyrinth.

Woolfson sang lead on many of the group's hits ( including " Time " and " Eye in the Sky ") and the record company pressured Parsons to use him more, but Parsons preferred " real " singers, which Woolfson admitted he was not.

Interview Island ( the largest wildlife sanctuary in the territory ) in Middle Andaman holds a population of feral elephants, which were brought in for forest work by a timber company and released when the company went bankrupt.

Before the Civil War, Carnegie arranged a merger between Woodruff's company and that of George M. Pullman, the inventor of a sleeping car for first class travel which facilitated business travel at distances over.

They acquired another electronics factory, a specialized ceramics company, an organization that built -- very experimentally -- high-speed research calculators.

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

AMETEK acquired Cameca in 2007 and Imago Scientific Instruments ( Madison, WI ) in 2010, making the company the sole commercial developer of APTs.

In 1996 Borland acquired Open Environment Corp ( OEC ), a Cambridge based company founded by John J. Donovan.

In November 1997, Borland acquired Visigenic, a middleware company that was focused on implementations of CORBA.

On May 6, 2009, the company announced it was to be acquired by Micro Focus for $ 75 million.

Methodists in Britain acquired their own bishops early in the 19th century, after the Methodist movement in Britain formally parted company with the Church of England.

In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

In 1970 Bombardier acquired the Viennese company Lohner-Rotax, a manufacturer of snowmobile engines and tramways, and became involved with rail business.

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

This company was acquired by Oracle Corporation in February 2006, which continues to develop and sell Berkeley DB.

The company was acquired by Palm Inc. and today BeOS is mainly used and developed by a small population of enthusiasts.

In 1998 the company acquired Dewar's scotch and Bombay Sapphire gin from Diageo for $ 2 billion.

Telefónica of Spain acquired a 50 percent share in the company in 2006.

The Tribune company, in financial distress, was acquired by real-estate mogul Sam Zell in December 2007.

This Videocart was shown in a single sales brochure released shortly after Zircon acquired the company.

On March 15, 2004, Amiga, Inc. announced that on April 23, 2003 it had transferred its rights over past and future versions of the Amiga OS ( but not over other intellectual property ) to Itec, LLC, later acquired by KMOS, Inc., a Delaware company.

In 1998, the Editions de l ' Etoile ( the company publishing Cahiers ) was acquired by the press group Le Monde.

The company was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry.

* 2011: Quidsi. com, parent company of Diapers. com, acquired by Amazon. com for $ 500 million in cash plus $ 45 million in debt and other obligations.

GSI Commerce, a company specializing in creating, developing and running online shopping sites for brick and mortar businesses, acquired by eBay for $ 2. 4 billion.

All future Supermarionation ventures were funded by ITC, who later acquired the share capital in the company in 1962.

When Microsoft acquired the FASA Interactive subsidiary, Babcock went with that company.

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

In 1972, the company acquired the four-store Shop-Rite chain of catalogue stores.