Going into the summit they had pushed hard for firm numerical limits on bonuses as a proportion of revenues or capital.
Its admission of guilt could make it hard for the firm to fight off private lawsuits from those that bought its now-vilified tax shelters.
Onerous labour laws are partly to blame, because they make it hard for a firm to sack workers unless it is about to go under.
Preparations of the herb, including the amount of valerenic acid, vary widely from study to study, making it hard to draw firm conclusions, says Catherine Ulbricht, co-founder of Natural Standard and a pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
"It's going to be hard for a new firm to attract the kind of attention and interest Amazon did, " says Blodget.
Hamburg pushed hard but Schwarzer held firm to leave the tie evenly poised ahead of the second leg on 29 April.
Examining the scores of variables that influenced each deal, the firm evaluated hard measures that influenced returns, such as leverage, multiple expansion, revenue growth and margins.
Gorman, who joined Morgan in 2006 and became CEO in 2009, has working hard to restore the firm which has been struggling to impress Wall Street since the financial crisis.
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This kind of signal from the top that egos and turf should be put aside in the interest of a great new entity is very hard to do without firm CEO signals.
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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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As clay is not so firm underfoot as hard courts, twisting and turning is harder.
Although firm statistics are hard to gather Firefox is currently thought to be used by about 15-17% of web users.
Although Windows Mobile is hard to adapt, the firm has delivered three innovative devices based on it, with sales in the millions.
Mori's Yoshimitsu Isoi says his firm found it hard to put everything into a written contract in China, rather than relying on verbal agreements as in Japan.
She was working as hard as any lawyer in her firm and she had children at home.
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Fulham worked hard but West Ham's firm defence kept out Brian McBride's volley and Diomansky Kamara's effort.
The firm now expects the hard-drive shortage to recovery in the September quarter, one quarter later than previously forecast.
The firm is also pushing hard to be a leader in the roll-out of devices supporting the 4k standard.
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Now that he has left the firm, it is hard to imagine that he will join another tech company without first considering other options.
Hintz added that Bear Stearns has always been an independent firm, making it hard for him to believe that it would suddenly change the corporate culture.
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One software security firm is learning the hard way that it also targets anyone who acts to bring down the loosely-knit, global movement of young people who campaign through Web attacks.
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Hintz added that Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) has always been an independent firm, making it hard for him to believe that it would suddenly change the corporate culture.
It is hard to think of a single global firm that would agree.
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Everyone in the firm is expected to work hard, to eat together and to share their problems and pleasures.
Boeing, for example, is used to rescheduling aircraft deliveries for hard-pressed customers (cancelling a firm order can cost a customer dear).
Many inside and outside the firm came to blame its hard-charging investment bankers for emphasising quick trading profits over long-term relationships with clients.
More sophisticated suspension systems mean that big vehicles can maintain a firm sense of control in hard turns without needing to have a punishing ride.
As his troops were being blown apart by French artillery at Waterloo, the Duke rode up and told them to stand firm and take the "hard-pounding".
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