In these times, doing just that and only that with a firm footing is no mean achievement.
Chevron saw profits slide while ConocoPhillips was still looking for firm footing after spinning off its downstream business.
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"I think overall, the strength in stocks right now is on fairly firm footing, " JPMorgan Chase equities analyst Thomas Lee told the Associated Press.
The idea that we can cut our way to prosperity and stability is just wrong, and it undermines the firm footing that you need to continue to grow your businesses.
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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But as the new bodies take up control - and the old organisations, including 152 primary care trusts, are scrapped - the government maintained the changes would put the NHS on a firm footing for the 21st century.
The new Cleantech industry has a firm footing in Michigan, and in fact the thought leaders in the world, the Cleantech Venture Network based just north of Ann Arbor, is the group holding conferences all over the world (U.S., China, Toronto, Germany, France) to create financial markets for this new industry.
Victim Support argues that the government should "implement funding solutions which place the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme on a firm financial footing".
Limiting government spending, and keeping the budget on a firm financial footing, is crucial as we approach the retirement years of the baby-boomer generation.
The three points will ensure the visiting fans travel back to the south coast with pride intact, even if their club is not on as firm a footing.
Although the theory that describes the interaction of quarks and gluons is on a firm conceptual footing, it is so complicated in practice that it can take years to make a single calculation of something like the shape of a proton even using the most powerful supercomputers.
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.
Historically, the firm is on solid footing.
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Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai and about 40 other top executives at the company will forego bonuses this year as the Japanese firm struggles to regain its footing in an increasingly competitive global electronics market.
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