You are going to see a lot of companies looking to focus on Asia, especially start-ups.
But between now and then, a lot of companies and jobs could be lost.
Using this information is difficult, however, and not a lot of companies do it well.
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It matters to a lot of companies golf course operators, electric utilities, coal miners, movie theaters, grain merchants.
But there are a lot of companies that still take cash, and customers who want paper receipts.
At that time a lot of companies wanted to crack the code on seamless digital rights management.
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There are a lot of companies right now introducing products and services that promise to revolutionize commerce.
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We also work with a lot of companies where computer glasses are already built into their benefits package.
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But a lot of companies and investors are looking for opportunities in health care in the much nearer term.
It matters to a lot of companies -- golf course operators, electric utilities, coal miners, movie theaters, grain merchants.
But a lot of companies were also looking around to see how they could evolve from manufacturing to services.
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"A lot of companies experience major bursts of growth overnight, " frets Brown, 48.
"I have a lot of friends from a lot of companies who didn't get bailed out, " Bill Gavette says.
There are a lot of companies that are taking what we are creating and translating them to the masses.
Like a lot of companies these days, Mattel is managing through difficult times.
Call-centres aside, a lot of companies are becoming keen on speech recognition because of its scope for voice-activated dialling.
And that's the attitude of a lot of companies all around the world.
While a lot of companies have focused on refinancing their debt, they have not really focused on restructuring their operations.
Executives at a lot of companies stifle their employees because they--not those employees--are change averse and afraid of two-way feedback.
And Sarbanes Oxley had the unintended consequence of putting a lot of companies under pink sheets so they became non-reporting.
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Microsoft now figures that a lot of companies will adopt Windows 2000 by late next year and thereby spur PC sales.
This is going to be a big problem for a lot of companies but solving it could have a huge payoff.
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"There are a lot of companies that don't match at all, " notes David Gelman, a pension consultant in New York City.
"A lot of companies, including our own, chased early adopters for a long time, frankly with mixed business results, " says Steve J.
And so what that means is a lot of companies are going to look for where can they find the best workforce.
That likely means a lot of companies are eyeing transactions, but the turbulent market is holding management back from pulling the trigger on deals.
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"A lot of companies go public because they're trying to raise money, and in our case, we don't need to raise money, " he said.
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The great news is there are a lot of companies that are now thinking about insourcing and moving jobs back to the United States.
"A lot of companies just throw a catalog online and hope people buy stuff in cyberspace, " says Stan Dolberg, software strategies director at Forrester Research.
There's a lot of companies still trading with lower (FSA) scores.
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