During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

In his dealings with offenders, however, Morgan was typically firm but just.

The young apprentice apparently did well by Mr. Brown, for in the third year of his apprenticeship Lucian was offered a full partnership in the firm ; ;

The parenchyma was slightly hyperemic in the apex of the left lung, and there were several firm, gray, fibrocalcific nodules measuring as large as 3 mm..

The firm red spleen weighed 410 gm., and its surface was mottled by discrete, small patches of white material.

The engineer had more than seven years of experience in the firm, was well trained, was considered a hard worker, was respected by his fellow engineers for his technical competence and was regarded as a `` comer ''.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

Each questionnaire was mailed with a cover letter addressed personally to the president or other executive of each firm.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

Hanch was treasurer of the Nordyke & Marmon Company, an Indianapolis firm which had manufactured flour-milling machinery before producing the Marmon car in 1904.

It was evident that a captain should remain at his desk, directing with a firm hand and keeping a firm seat.

It was most unlikely that she would be firm.

Youngish man on the make, Madden labeled him, and was ready to guess that in a correct, not too pushing fashion, the junior partner of the firm had political ambitions ; ;

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.

Leavitt, as he entered the jury room, said he was prepared to answer questions about the $12,500 his liquor firm paid to Stein for `` labor consultant work '' with five unions which organized Leavitt's workers.

John had a job in a small firm where the work was dull and monotonous.

Instead of linking the nine numbers of this diagram with the traditional Nine Provinces, as was usually done, this equated the odd, Yang numbers with mountains ( firm and resistant, hence Yang ) and the even numbers with rivers ( sinuous and yielding, hence Yin ) ; ;

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

Technology transfer has allowed Chile to build its global competitiveness and innovation and has led to the expansion of production as well as to an increase in average firm size in the industry.

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Kennedy's assassination led indirectly to another commission for Pei's firm.

Gustav led the firm through World War I, concentrating almost entirely on artillery manufacturing, particularly following the loss of overseas markets as a result of the Allied blockade.

Mies's grandson Dirk Lohan and two partners led the firm after he died in 1969.

Lohan, who had collaborated with Mies on the New National Gallery, continued with existing projects but soon led the firm on his own independent path.

The lack of firm borders, as well as the receding of the lake in the 20th century led to border incidents between Cameroon and Chad in the past.

This was followed by a pulsed system demonstrated in May 1935 by Rudolf Kühnhold and the firm GEMA in Germany and then one in June 1935 by an Air Ministry team led by Robert A. Watson Watt in Great Britain.

His difficulty with the Swedish bureaucracy led to his resignation and he returned to Norwich, Vermont as a partner, for one year, in the newly formed firm New England Digital Corporation that had begun to manufacture the Synclavier.

Investigators also found that the firm violated the terms of the United Nations ' Oil-for-Food Programme with Iraq by giving kickbacks worth 10 % of the contract values to officials within the Iraqi government, then led by Saddam Hussein.

Similarly, the experience of overseas shipping led the firm to enter into a trading business.

A cover story on Stone in the March 31, 1958 issue of Time magazine led to a series of important national and international commissions, and Stone's firm grew in size from 20 architects to over 200.

In March 1946, despite repeated requests from Chiang, the Soviet Red Army under the command of general Malinovsky continued to delay pulling out of Manchuria while he secretly told the CPC forces to move in behind them, because Stalin wanted Mao to have firm control of at least the northern part of Manchuria before the complete withdrawal of the Soviets, which led to full-scale war for the control of the Northeast.

In 1979 this led to the formation of Anglo-American Ernst & Whinney, creating the fourth largest accountancy firm in the world.

Claudette Colbert won the award for It Happened One Night but the uproar led to a change in Academy voting procedures the following year, whereby nominations were determined by votes from all eligible members of a particular branch, rather than by a smaller committee, with results independently tabulated by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse.

This has led to most IT services within the UK Government being managed by private companies ; the US firm EDS now has a large proportion of the total, which some have suggested gives it the capacity to manipulate pricing, or even be a strategic threat to UK interests.

A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885 when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm that same year.

In 2004, the firm led the Google IPO, the largest Internet IPO in U. S. history.

" He is a person with an impeccable past, generous sentiments and deep religious and humanist training, but whose excessive sensitivity and poetic temperament have led him to act in accordance with the passion of the moment rather than calm, firm will.

The management structure of Lagardère reflects its status as a Société en commandite par actions ( partnership limited by shares ): the firm is led by general and managing partner Arnaud Lagardère who heads an executive committee comprising four co-managing partners ( Philippe Camus, Pierre Leroy, Dominique D ' Hinnin and Thierry Funck-Brentano ) and spokesperson and chief of external relations Ramzi Khiroun.

The firm is now led by third-and fourth-generation Fenton family members, who work side by side with over 400 employees, including skilled glassworkers and decorators, to create beautiful, handmade art glass in Williamstown, West Virginia.

Schisms between TRPA and local residents led to the formation of grass-roots organizations that hold firm to strict environmentalism.

In December 1997, Christie's put itself on the auction block, but after two months of negotiations with a consortium led investment firm SBC Warburg Dillon Read, it did not attract a bid high enough to accept.