Insurance companies depend on reinsurance to get through catastrophic events such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
And much as UK exporters need Europe, so many European companies depend on access to the UK market.
And with 60% of the value of the order going to BAE's suppliers, hundreds of companies depend on the decisions made about the deal.
For example, many companies depend on large cadres of workaholic professionals and middle managers who put in long hours, are available around the clock, and are willing to sacrifice family and personal time for business activities.
Financial companies that depend on Wall Street for funding have been nearly crippled in the process.
And companies that depend on a component manufactured by only one source may be forced to completely redesign their product.
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If you are invested in companies that depend on government spending, you should gauge the impact that such cuts will have on future revenues and earnings.
Given how competitive insurance rates are, insurance companies depend heavily on these investment returns and many find it difficult to meet its liabilities and remain profitable otherwise.
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While the announcement comes as no surprise to the street (the Postal Service has been warning of its possibility for years), it still holds serious implications for companies that depend on door-to-door delivery.
And it's not just the impact of not extending it would be bad enough for those people whose jobs would be threatened, who might lose their jobs because of it, it would certainly be bad enough for the companies that depend on it.
On average, executives said that 29% of their companies' new sales depend on business travel and that 50% of prospects become customers when an in-person meeting takes place, versus only 31% without one.
Right now, we depend entirely on companies to test the drugs they sell us.
Companies of all sizes increasingly depend on access to big data, and software delivered from the cloud.
Ecompanies' problem boils down to the same strategic flaw shared by other dead or dying Internet outfits: It picks companies whose revenue models depend mostly on advertising.
In just seven days, a series of automatic cuts could go into effect that would severely affect companies like this one that depend on the defense industry and its workers.
Much would depend on how food companies would choose to respond to such a mandate.
According to Ms Wood, Wales cannot depend alone on big companies to invest in the future of Wales and said that if this was "unlikely before the banking crash, it's very unrealistic now".
Our sustainable agriculture initiatives will be particularly important in Africa and the Middle East, especially as PepsiCo is one of the largest agricultural companies and many of our products depend on agricultural raw materials.
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Police organizations depend a lot on outside companies that provide information and services required for day-to-day operations.
Despite the unprecedented investment in renewable companies, many aspects of this technology depend on further government investment.
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The effects of the flood on technology companies affected many across a swath of computer and electronics component makers that depend on supply chains that come out of Bangkok.
Some rural hotels and companies that provide recreational activities near large cities depend on them to stay afloat outside the summer tourist season.
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Companies such as Google, RIM, Microsoft, Amazon and Samsung all depend in some way on Navteq maps, giving Apple new leverage over those other companies.
The usefulness of this technology will depend on the stem cell research of companies like Geron gern (nasdaq: gern - news - people), which would allow the creation of new organ tissues from the patients' own existing cells.
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"In a letter Senator Mark Begich wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month, he says 'such an abrupt change in the available labor pool just before the start of the salmon season would have immediate negative consequences for the companies, and the fishermen and communities, which depend on their operations, '" KTVA reported.
Thousands of jobs depend on the commerce here, yet many companies are telling their captains to use the Whale App and the route change.
Although companies can reinvest at lower bond prices, that will depend on having enough capital left over from covering potential losses on bond prices.
Still, if Microsoft were to declare that banners, boxes and other non-premium display ads have negligible value of their won, that would pose a problem for companies like Facebook, Yahoo and AOL, which depend heavily on that kind of high-volume, low-c0st advertising.
My worry is that I depend on LinkedIn, and an increasing number of other companies (Apple, Google, Facebook, Twitter to name a few), to make sure my data is safe and not compromised.
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Much will depend on details of the relationship between the government and the companies yet to be spelled out.
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