Though such use is not encouraged by the company, the common use of the name as a generic term has put the trademark in jeopardy.

Though Deutsche Bahn is a private company, the government still holds all shares and therefore Deutsche Bahn can still be called a state-owned company.

Though quiet by nature, he took the uncharacteristic step of urging Xerox executives to keep their California research center, Xerox PARC, afloat when the parent company was suspicious that its research center would amount to little.

Though single employer market power is unlikely to exist in most labor markets in the sense of the traditional ' company town ,' asymmetric information, imperfect mobility, and the ' personal ' element of the labor transaction give some degree of wage-setting power to most firms.

Though the Millenia ( and its Miller-type V6 engine ) were discontinued in 2002, the company has recently introduced a much smaller Miller-cycle four-cylinder engine for use in itsDemio starting in 2008.

Though his " Goblin " model lost out to competition from Hoover in the household vacuum market, his company successfully turned its focus to the industrial market, building ever-larger models for factories and warehouses.

In 1919, Robinson collaborated with Handy and Charles N. Hillman on " Though We're Miles and Miles Apart ", which was released by Handy's publishing company.

Though the company was broken up into several independent operations in 1998, its legacy includes the development of RISC personal computers.

Though Brock was noted as a handsome man who enjoyed the company of women, he never married.

Though one chronicle claims he accompanied his father to England in 1297, the first reliable reference to him is from Gascony later that year, when he served in the company of Edward I.

Though other industries, such as several garment manufacturing shops, came to Palmerton, the zinc company was the major employer for most of the town's history.

Though the town is home to the Smucker's factory, the company does not sponsor the festival.

Though the paper became a publicly listed company in 1900, the family continued to hold a majority shareholding until the 1960s ( even after the family lost control, the great-grandson of the original purchaser was the paper's London editor ).

Though married four times, Louis discreetly enjoyed the company of both African-American and European-American women, including Lena Horne, Sonja Henie and Lana Turner.

Though Farinelli's success was enormous, neither the Nobility Opera nor Handel's company was able to sustain the public's interest, which waned rapidly.

Though he was the son and grandson of painters, he first sought a career as an actor ; he appeared in small parts in Sir Henry Irving's company, before taking up the study of art as assistant to James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

Though Barrett had occasional seasons in London he acted chiefly in the provinces, with his company being one of the most successful of the decade, receiving a £ 2, 000 average yearly profit just from the Grand Theatre Leeds.

Though on first release the film was lauded by critics, it was a commercial disaster with the home audiences and the critics, and prompted John Davis, the head of the Rank Organisation to announce that he was pulling out of British New Wave, " kitchen sink " drama, nor would his company make such a " squalid " film again.

Though at first Sally and Stephanie Forrester were bitter enemies, in later years they developed a friendship ; Sally even went to work at Forrester Creations after she finally made the decision to shut down her own company.

Though in this position he twice came under investigation – firstly for an alleged conflict of interest in relation to contracts awarded to his own economic research company, and secondly concerning the sale of the loss-making state-owned food conglomerate SME to the multinational Unilever, for which he had, for a time, been a paid consultant – however he was fully acquitted on both counts.

Though he did not renounce his liberal friends, he sought the company of enlightened priests, and just before his death seems disposed to reentering the Church.

Though Cage Rage promoter Andy Geer said that the UFC show would not affect ticket sales for CR21, the signing of Sapp was a clear sign that the company knew it would need a superstar draw in order to successfully compete with the American promotion.

Though devoted to Krystle, Blake himself is too preoccupied with his company, Denver-Carrington, and blind to Krystle's predicament.

Though the channel is owned by another subsidiary company operated as a joint venture, Lifetime and its cable networks remain under the co-ownership of The Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation, though NBC Universal became partial owner of the Lifetime channels as well since NBCU already was a part owner of A & E Television Networks.

Though he is also concerned with freeing dance from pedestrian modes of activity, Merce Cunningham has selected a very different method for achieving his aim.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

Though it centers around the brilliant and enigmatic figure of Charles 12,, the true hero is not finally the king himself.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

Though creeks in the Santa Cruz mountains flow brimful the year round and it is forever spring, the apples that grow there have a wintry crackle.

Though there is obviously nothing new about these techniques, they do challenge the worker's skill to articulate them precisely on the spot and on the basis of quick and accurate diagnostic assessments.

Though there is obviously great need for continued experimentation with various types of short-term intervention to further efforts in developing an operational definition of prevention at the secondary -- or perhaps, in some instances, primary -- level, the place of short-term intervention has already been documented by a number of investigators in a wide variety of settings.

Though it is not easy to apply the evidence of the Iliad to any specific era, this marvelous product of the epic tradition had certainly taken definitive shape by 750.

Though now complete, the publication is included in this directory because of its importance and because of the long-term nature of its preparation.

Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.

Though his character is broader and more comically rounded than the don, he gives it a firmness and toughness -- a sort of peasant dignity -- too.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Though the prison chaplain accuses the state of stripping Alex of free will, the government officials on the scene are pleased with the results and Alex is released into society.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

Though the word atom originally denoted a particle that cannot be cut into smaller particles, in modern scientific usage the atom is composed of various subatomic particles.

Though the ceremony installs the new abbot into a position of legal authority, it does not confer further sacramental authority-it is not a further degree of Holy Orders ( although some abbots have been ordained to the episcopacy ).

Though the title " abbot " is not given in the Western Church to any but actual abbots of monasteries today, the title archimandrite is given to " monastics " ( i. e., celibate ) priests in the East, even when not attached to a monastery, as an honor for service, similar to the title of monsignor in the Western / Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

Though she is one of the few gods of the Greek Pantheon to be actually married, she is frequently unfaithful to her husband.

Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:

Though their holding-power-to-weight ratio is significantly lower than admiralty pattern anchors, their ease of handling and stowage aboard large ships led to almost universal adoption.

Though some of the masonry in the ruins is certainly pre-Roman, the Suda's identification of it with Cyinda, famous as a treasure city in the wars of Eumenes of Cardia, cannot be accepted in the face of Strabo's express location of Cyinda in western Cilicia.

Though the resolution is historically significant, Hideaki Uemura, professor at Keisen University in Tokyo and a specialist in indigenous peoples ' rights, commented that the motion is " weak in the sense of recognizing historical facts " as the Ainu were " forced " to become Japanese in the first place.