Or, at least, none did until the Shadow Robot Company in London began working on the problem.
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There's also a shadow over the company because of an investigation by federal prosecutors into stock options practices.
The company describes a digital shadow of the trail an individual or company leaves behind on the Internet during the course of personal work or business.
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Already, Merck chief RichardClarkRichard Clark seems to be focusing more on the day-to-day operations of the company and less on the shadow of the Vioxx monolith.
Already, Merck chief Richard Clark seems to be focusing more on the day-to-day operations of the company and less on the shadow of the Vioxx monolith.
For one thing, it was a chance to prove he could successfully run a steel company outside Ken Iverson's shadow.
But I think the essence of the complaint is that the company is still operating under the shadow of the late Steve Jobs.
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It is also considering "shadow tolls" - a fee to the road maintenance company per driver using a road, but paid by the government rather than drivers.
In the last few months the company has worked with creators including Counting Crows, DJ Shadow, Chester French and Pharrell Williams, and most recently skateboarding legends Tony Hawk and Stacy Peralta, who released the cult 80s skateboarding film The Search for Animal Chin via BitTorrent last week.
Rolls-Royce's sales figures are the best since 1978 when the company sold 3, 347 cars, mainly of the Silver Shadow II model.
The company has decided against making it even stronger, says Rich Walker, Shadow Robot's technical director, because that might be dangerous.
The company has been working closely with Val Cameron, the island's shadow water regulator and director of environmental health and pollution, to put together the case.
"We all live in Mr Punch's shadow and what a strange shadow it is, " laughs Mervyn Millar, UK director of Handspring - the puppet company behind War Horse, which is soon to unveil a new show Crow based on the poems of Ted Hughes.
But Norilsk Nickel, with the world's largest reserves of the metal, treads in the shadow of rumors that the government is plotting to target it as it did Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil company Yukos.
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