The combined firm will be about 10 million customers behind the third-biggest firm, Sprint.
But whatever else that can be said about the firm, its managers certainly know how to make a splash.
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Such considerations may explain why next week Mr Brown will not be making any firm announcements about changes in the tax system.
Be sure to learn as much about the firm and the principals as possible, and be creative when it comes to presenting yourself to them.
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Nobody should be trading defense stocks based on such dire scenarios, because there are too many uncertainties concerning how the deficit reduction pact will be implemented to develop a firm conviction about where demand for military goods is headed.
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However, McIlroy -- who played under Montgomerie -- has firm opinions about who should be captain.
It takes time to hire good people for a startup firm, but it pays to be selective about who you hire.
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Merrill Lynch, another firm that's about to be acquired, this time by Bank of America, they're going to have job losses there.
Conwy council, which is considering a redevelopment of the Plas yn Dre area of Llanrwst, is in talks with a firm about whether a Tesco could be sited in the town.
He added that the train had been delayed by about 45 minutes and the firm would be sending the new mother a bunch of flowers.
As we watch our political leaders struggle with the reality of bipartisan agreement, however, it might be worth thinking about the bipartisan dynamics in your own firm.
The Jamaat-i-Islami, which won 16 seats, may have firm views about the role of women and be opposed to American-style hamburger bars in Dhaka's city centre, but it does not indulge in the same level of anti-western talk as its counterparts in Pakistan.
At Peterson Partners, a small growth capital firm, we decided our business was going to be all about the entrepreneurs we backed.
It is true that, while many lawyers do have principled concerns about the independence of the legal profession, they also fret about who would be top dog in an integrated firm.
The firm makes recommendations about who is crucial and who may be a problem.
It would be great if my technology firm were more like the client I visited about two weeks ago.
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Reached for comment, Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein of the research firm CliniLabs said that he "always hoped to be proved wrong" about the safety worries.
"It can be very difficult to determine when and where the initial entry point was, " he said, adding that without firm information about that, throwing out the old hardware might be a reasonable choice.
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Although firm statistics are hard to gather Firefox is currently thought to be used by about 15-17% of web users.
The first pacemaker that could be implanted in patients came about the same time, from a then tiny firm called Medtronic.
He said he also had concerns about how the firm was ensuring that held data could not be traced back to individual users.
Businessweek reports the firm will cut 1, 600 jobs, about half of which will be in the U.S. Morgan Stanley cut around the same number of jobs in the first quarter of 2012.
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He said he opposed involving a private firm because private companies "could go bust", the bottom line would be about profit, and it would be a risk.
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At the same time as the Bank of China's share offering, for instance, there was also optimism about what seemed to be a ground-breaking deal with an American finance firm, Newbridge Capital.
The Texas-based firm has promised to provide extensive details about the sales process in regulatory documents to be filed next week.
However, there was still "a glimmer of hope" about the mine's future as the firm had not said it would be completely closed, said Mr Kitchen.
Rather than hoping that barely adequate voluntary reforms at scandal-hit companies will start a trend, how about a federal law of incorporation which establishes a firm principle that outsiders must be given a fair shot at company boards?
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It is supposed to be an investigation into whether Lehman and its chief executive, Richard Fuld, misled investors about the firm's financial health.
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