As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

Initially, there were 25 franchises, but the number of different operating companies is smaller as some firms, including First Group, National Express Group and Stagecoach Group, run more than one franchise.

Economies of scale is a practical concept that may explain real world phenomena such as patterns of international trade or the number of firms in a market.

A number of business ideas, such as soap making, wholefood retailing, aquarium maintenance, and hotel operation have been identified as suitable for adoption by social firms employing disabled and disadvantaged people.

A major change in the structure of Zambia's economy came with the Mulungushi Reforms of April 1968: Kaunda declared his intention to acquire an equity holding ( usually 51 % or more ) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by his Industrial Development Corporation ( INDECO ).

:* Non-increasing returns to scale-The lack of increasing returns to scale ( or economies of scale ) ensures that there will always be a sufficient number of firms in the industry.

Hence, if firms are to produce at a level that equates marginal cost and marginal revenue, the model of perfect competition must include at least an infinite number of firms, each producing an output quantity of zero.

Agro-processing involved a large number of small, inefficient, and often family-run firms as well as a small number of large, efficient, and usually foreign-owned firms.

The 19 buildings include the offices of Daimler-Benz themselves ( actually their subsidiary debis, whose 21-storey main tower rises to 106 metres and is the tallest building in the new Potsdamer Platz development ), also offices of the major British professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berliner Volksbank ( Germany's largest cooperative bank ), and the remarkable 25-storey, 103-metre-high Potsdamer Platz No. 1, known as the Kollhoff Tower by architect Hans Kollhoff, home to a number of prestigious law firms.

To ensure a reliable supply of parts, he organized a number of subsidiary firms like the National Coil Company, the Michigan Screw Company, and the Atlas Drop Forge Company.

A number of multinational firms have their Japanese offices in Roppongi, including investment banks Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, State Street, manufacturer Corning Incorporated, and law firms Allen & Overy, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

The result was an increase in inventories and severe cutbacks in production at a number of electronics, automobile, and textile manufacturers, as well as at the smaller firms that supplied the parts.

Smalltalk-80 was the first language variant made available outside of PARC, first as Smalltalk-80 Version 1, given to a small number of firms ( Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Tektronix, and DEC ) and universities ( UC Berkeley ) for " peer review " and implementation on their platforms.

In this context, two things are assumed constant by definition of the short run: the availability of one or more fixed inputs ( typically physical capital ), and the number of firms in the industry.

Recent research cautions that localization is not always advantageous for firms operating in the region, and its effectiveness depends on a number of contingent factors.

A major switch in the structure of Zambia's economy came with the Mulungushi Reforms of April 1968: the government declared its intention to acquire equity holdings ( usually 51 % or more ) in a number of key foreign-owned firms, to be controlled by a parastatal conglomerate named the Industrial Development Corporation ( INDECO ).

* British Invasion, which saw a number of 2000 AD artists and writers working for the big American firms during the 1980s.

The fewer the number of firms in the industry, the easier for the members of the cartel to monitor the behaviour of other members.

Given that detecting a price cut becomes harder as the number of firms increases, the bigger are the gains from price cutting.

The greater the number of firms, the more probable it is that one of those firms is a maverick firm ; that is, a firm known for pursuing aggressive and independent pricing strategy.

The University of Birmingham's Special Collections contain a significant number of collections of rare books and manuscripts.

Birmingham's booming economy gave the town a growing professional sector, with the number of physicians and lawyers increasing by 25 % between 1767 and 1788.

One of a number of players on high wages subjected to criticism by club owner David Sullivan, Sutton was released at the end of the season following Birmingham's relegation to the Championship.

Kuqi featured regularly for Birmingham's reserve side, but had a number of more experienced strikers in front of him, including Emile Heskey and Mikael Forssell, which made it difficult for him to break into the starting eleven.

Birmingham's multifaith environment has brought together a number of religious groups and denominations.

His funeral was widely attended by many of the U. S's and Birmingham's business executives along with his large number of friends.

As the amount of German armour encountered by the Allies decreased, especially in Italy, a number of American tank destroyer units were used in the assault gun role for infantry support.

Use of two guns was therefore a reasonable compromise, as this allowed one gun to be cocked as the other is being fired, in practical terms doubling the rate of fire and the available number of bullets.

France also sets limits on the number of cartridges that can be purchased per year, depending on the purpose of the gun.

The gun crime rate rose between 1997 and 2004 but has since slightly receded, while the number of murders from gun crime has largely remained static over the past decade.

For example, gun cruiser USS Boston ( CA-69 ) was converted to a gun / missile cruiser, changing the hull number to CAG-1.

For instance, the County Longford IRA under Seán Mac Eoin carried out a number of well planned ambushes and successfully defended the village of Ballinalee against Black and Tan reprisals in a three-hour gun battle.

# Political power: The hassle of registration may reduce the number of gun owners, and thus the political power of the gun-ownership bloc.

Small arms reported in service included TT pistol, Browning Hi-Power, Beretta M12, FN P90, FN FAL, SKS, AK-47, AKM and AK-103 assault rifles, the FN F2000, Soviet RPD machine gun, RPK machine gun, PK machine guns, DShK heavy machine gun, KPV heavy machine guns, SG-43 Goryunov, and a number of RPG-type and anti-aircraft missile systems: RPG-2, RPG-7, 9K32 Strela-2.

His acts included giving lectures in an invented language called Slobodian, " Imaginative Young Man with a Walking Stick " and " The Chairback ", with a broken chairback having a number of uses from comb to machine gun and taking on a demonical life of its own.

Samuel Colt received a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and an American patent ( number 138 ) on February 25, 1836 for a Revolving gun, and made the first production model on March 5 of that year.

In the early stages of the air war in World War I the problem of mounting a forward-firing machine gun on combat aircraft was considered by a number of individuals.

" In short, there was no significant correlation between national gun ownership rates and the total number of people murdered or the total number who killed themselves This study therefore did not even find a simple correlation between gun rates and rates of total homicide or suicide, never mind causality.

It was later found, however, that the authors used confusing and unorthodox wordings of the key questions, which artificially reduced the number of respondents reporting a defensive gun use

Due to this bird's ability to ( rarely ) prey upon small lambs, the gun clubs of Cork County have killed a large number of these birds in modern times.

The first open designation of which essay belonged to whom was provided by Hamilton, who in the days before his ultimately fatal gun duel with Aaron Burr provided his lawyer with a list detailing the author of each number.

By seeming to be a suitable target for the U-boat's deck gun, a Q-ship might encourage the U-boat captain to make a surface attack rather than use one of his limited number of torpedoes.

Despite his reputation for corruption, he helped popularize a number of famous weapons and vehicles, such as the Maxim gun ( one of the first fully automatic machine guns ) and the first true submarine.

Frequently the first number reflects bore diameter ( inches or millimeters ) of the gun chambered for that cartridge.