Frankly a lot of firms have the problems Gawker has and just have not been exposed.
Koenig says a lot of firms do ESOP valuations and consulting but not as many make loans.
Microsoft now figures a lot of firms will adopt Windows 2000 by late next year, spurring PC sales.
During the boom years, many firms went on a buying binge and a lot of the firms they acquired especially dotcoms are now worth only a fraction of the money paid for them.
Because they were trained so well and made good decisions, clients made a lot of money, investment firms made a lot of money, and brokers made a lot of money.
It becomes a little more clear as to what the magnitude of the effects might be, and I think a lot of business firms are now taking all that into account and recognizing that this is probably a long-term problem that is going to be dealt with in a regulatory fashion, and it's prudent to prepare themselves for that regulatory structure.
"A lot of small firms don't realize that they're ultimately liable" for fraudulent payments, Mr. Faulkner adds.
If it happens this year, then a lot of polling firms will have to re-examine their assumptions and we will have to re-examine ours about how trustworthy the polls are.
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Goyal, as you said, the -- we know that hiring is going to take place in a lot of different firms when it comes back, but the primary job creator is small business.
And a lot of Wall Street firms now cover many fewer stocks, making it particularly hard for small companies to win attention.
FutureAdvisor recognized a lot of different brokerage firms that I searched for, and this week it added Thrift Savings Plans, or TSPs, which are used by government employees, including military personnel.
Soft dollar and commission recapture firms have grown tremendously since the late eighties and have taken a lot of business from Wall Street firms.
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It's like a lot of other Japanese electronics firms, a sort of department store of technology.
You know, the underlying problem is that a lot of banks and financial firms have these mortgage-backed securities.
Still, it makes a lot of sense for both firms with the mostly likely timing would be in 2012.
Most of the main culprits, like Joe Cassano, were trying to make a lot of money for their firms, which used to be seen as a good thing.
On paper, a deal between the two multibillion-dollar French drug firms makes a lot of sense.
East Asia's troubles will hurt Japan the most because the region buys a lot of Japan's exports and firms there have borrowed a lot from its already troubled banks.
Owners of small firms tend to wear a lot of hats, but might not have the know-how to operate complicated technologies.
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Dalio acknowledged to me that Bridgewater was one of the funds that pulled a lot of money out of Lehman and other Wall Street firms, but he said he had little choice.
Mr Makino says that the traditional distribution practices of the keiretsu, or families of firms, ensured that manufacturers had a lot of control over high-street prices.
The idea has not been popular in the Southeast, where there is not a lot of wind energy, and firms like Southern Company are lobbying against such a proposal.
Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, in meeting with congressional leaders last night and saying they are going to work out a bailout under which the federal government would take over a lot of bad debt from financial firms.
You might say, well, U.S. firms get a lot of their money from overseas.
We serve a lot of financial services such as CPA firms, wealth management firms, insurance firms and investment banking firms.
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Such high-growth firms create a lot of jobs: in America just 1% of companies generate roughly 40% of new jobs.
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Because the big lobbying firms spend a lot of time putting together a one and two page glossy sheet, well-written, that gets the point across very well.
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Nevertheless, most pharmaceutical firms have a lot of exposure to emerging markets, which is another growth platform that can help to offset the patent losses in developed markets.
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"Old-fashioned LBO deals, in which firms put a lot of leverage on a company, won't work today, " says David Mussafer, co-chairman of Advent's executive committee, who says 30% to 40% of his firm's recent buyouts were done without any borrowed money, nearly double the levels of a few years ago.
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