The second main support, outsourcing, provides 70% of revenue for EDS and 42% for archrival Computer Sciences.

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Many of the contract attorneys worked for Hudson Legal, an outsourcing firm that provides workspace, pay and benefits to lawyers and charges firms like Kirby McInerney a slight premium over the hourly rate to cover overhead.

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For example, if outsourcing hardware manufacturing provides IBM (NYSE:IBM) a cost advantage, it also does for its competitors, such as the Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), Dell Computers (NYSE:DELL), and EMC (NYSE:EMC) that will follow suit.

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"While we acknowledge that the UK's continuing economic weakness is having a negative impact on business, we have yet to be convinced that the combination of job losses and the outsourcing of line maintenance put forward today provides the answer, " said Prospect negotiator John Stevenson.

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