Some governance experts see a difficulty in this: binding rejection of a remuneration report would force a firm to redraft pay deals already concluded.
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The small 13-attorney firm was a force in Chicago politics.
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The board of Alliance Trust has defeated a bid by a rebel shareholder to force a comprehensive review of the investment firm's operations.
Humer argues that it is relatively easy to hire more sales reps or ink a comarketing contract with another drug firm that has a big U.S. sales force.
And on the proposal for a permanent African peacekeeping force, Mr Mbeki said what was now needed was a firm G8 decision to help with resources and logistics.
The first, Mr Sarkozy's favourite, is to force Areva, a profitable firm, to take over Alstom.
Six years ago I was part of a consulting team that was asked by a major biotech firm to conduct a six-month long double-blind study of its sales force.
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EADS, a European aerospace group, along with an American defence firm, to build 179 refuelling aircraft for the American air force is seen in Paris as a sign of a new trust.
So the firm filed a writ of mandamus in federal court to force the FCC to respond to its complaint.
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Rather than try to win a judgment in excess of a small firm's liability insurance policy (and potentially force it to liquidate assets, which complicates payment), plaintiffs in many states can sue all along the company's supply chain to sweeten the spoils.
An executive at a big American bank says that such rules will force his firm to invest less abroad than would be ideal.
One argument is that the law would not force the FCC to end spectrum caps, so if a firm purchased additional spectrum that it preferred to its current spectrum it could divest later.
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To see why it should stand firm, we need only return to the NBA. Though still a major force in professional sports, the league has somewhat lost its luster in recent years.
Kofi Annan is attending a meeting of European foreign ministers in Brussels, where a number of countries are expected to make firm commitments to the U.N. force.
Neither of those chains even made the top 10 in a recent poll of more than 7, 000 burger lovers by customer-research firm Market Force Information.
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Business leaders are supposed to be tough, hard-driving visionaries who set a firm course for the company and then lead people in that direction with their charisma and force of personality, right?
Gianni Agnelli, the industrialist credited with transforming Fiat from an obscure Italian car maker into a major force in the global automotive industry as well as other industries, was the firm's honorary chairman when he died.
The German court awarded Motorola the right to force Microsoft to recall and destroy its products following a complaint that the software firm had failed to license two patents necessary to offer H.264 video coding and playback.
In September he tried to get a paramilitary force to seize control of Baghdad airport during a pay dispute with a London-based firm that runs airport security.
In Germany, where a ban on online gambling came into force last year, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia has ordered Betfair, a British firm (see article), to block access to its residents.
"Not only are their smartphone sales growing, they have also learned how to make a good profit on those sales, " James Rooney, chairman of Market Force Company, an advisory firm based in Seoul, told the BBC.
Supposedly, analysts are another force for good corporate governance, putting pressure on management by providing investors with independent analysis of a firm's accounts and prospects.
But Sam Barnett, whose advertising technology firm Struq helps to track and target consumers according to their habits, told us that personalisation was a positive force.
This bravura general explanation--of how a failing company and its toadying audit firm can cook the books through nonexistent revenue--is an expository tour de force and the core of the novel.
Immersion currently has about a dozen licensees, including CH Products, which released the first consumer force feedback joystick in 1996, the British firm Leda Media Products and publicly traded Logitech International (LOGIY).
That said, Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is the force to be reckoned with in the ecommerce space according to Forrester, a research and analysis firm focusing on technology companies, products and services, 30% of online shoppers start at Amazon.com.
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