Sometimes, the best way to get a point across to an employee is to be firm with him or her in front of other staffers.
Parents should be firm with their kids, say advisers, by making them pay for rent and other expenses if possible, setting a limit for how long they are allowed to stay, and avoiding the temptation to offer extra financial help, like loans.
Bush also can be both playful and firm with reporters, as he showed with WHDH-TV's Andy Hiller, the Boston reporter who stumped him with a pop quiz on foreign leaders two months ago.
At that moment a new firm might be spun out of the institute, or a deal might be done with an established pharmaceutical firm, to try to get a new drug developed.
While it would hurt CEO egos to be left with a smaller firm, it would probably benefit shareholders.
On February 9th the search giant unveiled Buzz, a networking service that will be closely integrated with the firm's e-mail offering, Gmail.
In its filing, Proview alleged lawyers for IPAD repeatedly said it would not be competing with the Chinese firm, and refused to say why they needed the trademark.
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Reno, who spoke with reporters at her weekly briefing, said the goal should be "firm, fair punishment that fits the crime, " coupled with prevention programs that keep children out of trouble in the first place.
Challenges magazine to be published tomorrow, Clarins management told employee representatives that PPR and LVMH had expressed interest in the firm, with L'Oreal also rumored to be angling for a bid.
According to the firm, bird numbers would be comparable with the site's use as an egg laying unit.
The Western Isles' SNP MP Angus MacNeil and MSP Alasdair Allan said families involved with the firm will be concerned.
The work undertaken by the scientists in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, is to be transferred to a private firm in Wakefield with the loss of 130 jobs.
The logical owner would be a firm committed to opinionated journalism, with a clear strategy for making money from online journalism and a large TV news-gathering operation that could feed video into a Newsweek iPad application.
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And then with some firm footing, with a solid fiscal situation, we will then be in a position to make the kind of investments that I think are going to be necessary to win the future.
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At first glance the office appeared to be awash with T-shirts and ponytails, more like a technology firm than a government department, though with much worse coffee and no free food.
And a law firm seeking to be lead counsel in connection with the latest corporate scandal is in a race against time.
In many cases such a fundamental shift for a firm may be better lead by the CEO with the support of the entire C-Suite.
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With his firm in tatters and his U.S. property to be seized--and with overwhelming evidence against him--Dreier had nothing to lose by skipping out of the country, he said.
Take the case of Leyla Basagoitia, who was sued by her employer in 2003 for a bonus she received upon taking employment with the firm only to be fired two years later.
While there are no major fresh developments on the European Union debt crisis front, there continues to be negotiations among EU leaders, with the underlying theme that there is still not firm agreement on specific near-term actions to be taken.
Are you generally warm and considerate, but with the ability to be straightforward and firm when needs be?
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For the entrepreneur there is a buyer beware and attention that needs to be taken on selection on which venture firm to go with.
He will be allowed to remain associated with his hedge fund firm, which is required to give back cash to its investors that have asked for their money as quickly as possible.
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If I have one quibble with the book, it is that McLeod may understate the risk that the firm as a whole may not be in sync with the noble sales purpose.
Microsoft said the software would be available to anyone who wanted to use it and downloading it would not involve registering with the software firm or having a limit on the amount of time it could be used for.
The merged firm will be the fourth-largest US mobile carrier with 42.5 million subscribers.
After all, it would still be saddled with a stake in a debt-laden firm with diminishing prospects.
The publisher of travel guides will be merged with Zagat, a restaurant reviewer the internet firm snapped up last September.
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