The order was in addition to a firm order of 10 E-190s signed earlier this year.
The deal represents a firm order for 10 aircraft and an option for another 10.
Boeing, for example, is used to rescheduling aircraft deliveries for hard-pressed customers (cancelling a firm order can cost a customer dear).
In a flash order, a firm wishing to buy or sell stock can elect to freeze the order on an exchange for as long as half a second.
French politicians of many stripes are keen to draw a firm line in order to thwart further proselytising, particularly in the heavily Muslim banlieues.
Heymann's Pacific Mail Order System began as a direct-mail advertising company, which later evolved into a mail-order firm for members of the U.S. Armed Forces serving in Vietnam.
Within five years he had set up a mail-order firm and was sending goods out with the daily milk round.
Buying into the Hollinger mess is a bold move by the Barclay brothers, who already own other British newspapers, including the Scotsman and the Business, as well as London's Ritz hotel and Littlewoods, a mail-order firm.
But establishing a new platform and ultimately becoming a firm that looks much like IBM is a tall order.
For years, this is what happened if you wanted to buy or sell a Nasdaq stock: Your buy order went to a market making firm, which charged you the offer side of the market, pocketing the difference between that price and the lower bid.
This too may have something to do with Google, which recently bought a display-advertising firm in order better to attack Yahoo!'
Later, in a deposition, Andreas denied participating in e-mail exchanges that later emerged when Lorillard got a court order forcing the firm to turn over internal documents.
The prosecutors also said that Rana had allowed Headley to pose as a representative of his firm in order to gain access to newspaper offices by feigning interest in purchasing advertising space.
Early in the design process, Arad was teamed with the landscape architect Peter Walker, who shares his minimalist sensibility, and they have made the space around the two footprints a handsome and restrained civic square, with oak trees, benches, and light poles giving the place a kind of quiet, firm order.
Section 2 cases generally require a private party or the government -- either the Department of Justice or the Federal Trade Commission -- to show that a firm with a significant market share has done something anticompetitive in order to increase or maintain its monopoly.
WSJ: Sherman Stirs: U.S. Revives Section 2 of the Antitrust Act
But venture investors only need one major hit to vault a firm in the Silicon Valley pecking order.
When they presented the plan to us, my responsibility to taxpayers is to look at those plans in a realistic way and figure are these plans going to work in order to put these auto companies on a firm, solid footing where they can operate without government subsidies and succeed, and compete in the marketplace.
There is no point in starving a business and endangering a firm's balance-sheet in order to meet macho dividend commitments.
The Justice Department's civil suit against the unnamed telecom company seeks a judge's order compelling the firm to give up the data.
WSJ: FBI Secretive 'National Security Letter' Demand for Phone Records Faces Rare Challenge
BA's own employees may have felt emboldened to strike (illegally) in support of former colleagues at the catering firm in order to set a marker for the battles to come as BA moves to the new, fifth terminal at Heathrow.
Argenbright's new chief executive, David Beaton, called DiFava's comments "troubling, " and said in a prepared statement that the firm will appeal the order, which also affects Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts.
In October, Excite, which is evolving from the second-largest Internet search site to a fully fledged online service, bought NetBot in order to acquire the firm's shopping-agent technology, with which it hopes to create a virtual megastore.
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In August its shares dived by more than 20% after the firm said it was considering a rights issue in order to bolster its finances.
Refco's creditors are hoping the judge assigned to handle the firm's bankruptcy filing will order a speedy auction of the company to be conducted when parties meet on Monday morning in lower Manhattan.
At present, in order to switch water supplier, a firm or organisation must use more than five million litres of water a year at a single set of premises - in Wales that threshold is much higher, currently 50 million litres.
MUMBAI--India's capital markets regulator approached the Supreme Court Friday to seek the detention of Subrata Roy, chairman of the Sahara Group, for the firm's alleged failure to comply with a court order to repay some Sahara investors, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.
In order to run a successful fund, a venture firm must have a healthy supply of limited partners, who all sign on board to allow us to invest their money as we deem best.
The row with Global Marine also puts a question mark over an order for two other vessels from that firm.
BBC: News | Northern Ireland | New row threatens shipyard's future
When a firm goes bankrupt, it pays money back to investors in a particular order as it liquidates.
How many taxpayers took advantage of free or inexpensive computer applications in order to submit their returns instead of using a small accounting firm?
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