Your firm, in effect, has 50 full-time equivalents and would be subject to the penalty if you don't provide health-care coverage.
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Earlier this year the government backtracked on plans to break up Gazprom, worried perhaps about the effect on the firm that keeps Russia warm in winter.
"In effect, the firm is saying he's OK. And in a field such as we have today, in which there's no candidate for whom there's great enthusiasm, these cues are particularly effective, " Edwards says.
Some of those listening to him were sub-contractors to the Patton Group and they raised their concerns about the knock-on effect that the building firm's apparent collapse would have on their businesses.
The problem is that the rest of the industry has caught up to Bain: Blackstone, Carlyle and nearly every other large firm now deploy internal consultants to effect change among their acquisitions.
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The co-founder and General Partner of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz talks about the girl effect.
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The collapse of the UK's "last" freezer manufacturer will have an "awful" effect on local employment, the firm's provisional liquidator has said.
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The changes will have a minimum effect on content, said the firm.
Despite 80 companies reportedly showing an interest in the ailing firm, 156 staff were made redundant with immediate effect last week.
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Those customers became in effect the unpaid marketing department of the firm.
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The Olympics and Paralympics had "no material effect" on its performance, the firm said, and appeared to cut the number of people visiting its outlets.
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So even though goodwill is a fictitious asset, and does not affect the firm's cash profits, it has a negative effect on the books.
An average school district now has five to 10 providers seeking the business of its employees, down from 40 before the IRS rules took effect, according to Boston-based consulting firm Cerulli Associates.
So, in effect, do a few ecclesiastical spires: Each firm's charitable programs benefit churches (the town's church-to-bar ratio is 29:2).
Sands Research Inc. an El Paso, Texas, firm that specializes in neuromarketing, the study of advertising's effect on brain activity, says it worked with five Super Bowl advertisers this year, up from two last year.
In hoping to contain such a problem, Dewey is considering a feature that would in effect give clawback waivers to attorneys who stay with the surviving firm.
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Wars also cause an excessive focus on what the competitor is doing and, in effect, allow that competitor to dictate the direction of the firm engaging in that war.
Fortunately, recently, professors Nick Bloom, Toby Kretschmer, and John van Reenen (from Stanford, the University of Munich, and the London School of Economics) conducted an extensive study examining the effect of family-friendly practices on hard variables such as firm sales per employee and return on capital employed, using a large database of firms from the US, the UK, Germany, and France.
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Angie Dodd of Slow Food UK is a firm believer that it's a change in attitude that is having an effect on supermarkets and food producers.
"In the law firm industry in New York today, there's a little bit of a seesaw effect, " says Ken Rapp, a broker in CBRE Group Inc.
Well, Groupon used the disruptive tools available to every small- and mid-sized firm to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace and capture that ever-elusive network effect.
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In 2007, Trent Lott, a Republican leader in the Senate less than a year into his fourth term, abruptly resigned and formed a lobbying firm with former Senator John Breaux, just a few weeks before a new law took effect requiring a two-year waiting period between serving and lobbying.
"I think it will be a domino effect, " said Richard Bronson, a former casino executive who now owns a firm pushing for online-gambling legislation in statehouses.
Meanwhile, Banco Delta Asia has hired a law firm to persuade the Americans to remove it from their money-laundering blacklist, which in effect cuts it off from the international banking system.
This was no short-lived effect since it was reflected in the market-to- book-value of the firm years after being adopted, and it was also reflected in an improvement in firm operating performance (especially for say-on-pay).
Clauses to this effect were subsequently put into contracts that Skins signed with athletes and teams, and the firm vowed that if any of its sportspeople or teams were caught "systematically cheating" - on a regular and calculating basis - then the firm would "terminate the contract, and terminate it very loudly".
The mandate to offer health insurance doesn't take effect until 2014, but the "measurement period" used by the feds to determine a firm's average number of full-time employees started last month.
While the NHL lockout had a dampening effect on Jacobs' revenue stream, it was offset by a surge in other areas of his firm's operations, namely travel and hospitality.
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