At Boeing, Harry Stonecipher was called out of retirement to lead the scandal-hit firm and raise ethical standards, only to commit a lapse of his own, being sacked (it seems) for sending e-mails to a lover who was also an employee.
The dreaded risutora--restructuring, the euphemism for layoffs--has not hit his firm yet, but he is waiting.
The rule wasn't targeted at Goldman, but it hit the firm harder than other Wall Street firms because Goldman Sachs doesn't offer such retail services as credit cards or home mortgages to make up for lost profits.
But venture investors only need one major hit to vault a firm in the Silicon Valley pecking order.
It said the state-run oil firm was hit because it was a key source of income for the government.
Wales' record as a site of heavy industry was hit when the Cardiff firm Allied Steel and Wire shut with the lost of more 700 jobs, although it is hoped the Spanish steelmaker Celsa will step in and buy out the plant and perhaps reemploy many of the workers.
Korean electronics firm Samsung has hit back in a patent dispute with Osram, a rival maker of light emitting diodes (LEDs).
Despite a sponsorship deal with Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur and once being a constituent of the FTSE 100 index of the largest companies listed in the UK, the firm has rarely hit the headlines.
After losing a key contract with Apple, which hit its earnings, the Edinburgh firm has turned round its fortunes with a deal to supply Blackberry.
Goals Soccer Centres has reported a fall in profits, after taking a hit from an aborted takeover of the firm earlier this year.
But the firm's profits have been hit by the growth of online rental services an, recently, the popularity of streaming films over the internet.
The firm said it had also been hit by warm weather, which reduced demand for heating oil, and lower sales of jet fuel as the aviation industry struggled to recover from the aftermath of 11 September.
Research firm IDC expects notebook computer growth to hit 138.6 million units in 2008, surpassing 4.0% desktop computer growth at 26.0%.
The firm's share price, which hit a five-year low the day before the Vivanno was introduced, has since risen by around 10%.
Mr Krause also warned that the firm's finances would continue to be hit by the expiry of currency hedging contracts.
It's a firm with locations in some of the hardest hit regions in the U.S., in Florida and the Southwest.
At least 15 corporations in Australia were severely hit, including a leading retailer, an information technology firm and several non-profit organisations, said Mr Liao.
In February Ripplewood Holdings, a private investment firm headed by legendary money man Tim Collins, hit the jackpot in Japan.
Knut and his brother steered the family firm through the 1920s, when Sweden was badly hit by a global recession.
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It was no one I knew, not anyone from my firm, not one of our friends come to hit on Diana.
Thomson Reuters, a UK-Canadian firm headquartered in New York, has sought to hit back with the launch of its Eikon desktop software.
Recent numbers from research firm Gartner indicate that IT spending will likely be hit by uncertainty in Europe in 2012, with growth in the enterprise software and IT services businesses to be hurt the most. (See Europe Will Drag on IT Spending in 2012) This is not a good sign for IBM.
Technically, December gold futures prices hit a six-month high Wednesday and the bulls are in firm near-term technical command.
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More likely, his firm devolved into a Ponzi scheme only when serious losses hit and he decided not to level with investors but to gamble on a resurrection.
Buildings damaged by Wednesday's quake, which struck at about 1854 GMT and was the strongest to hit the state for 52 years, included the headquarters of coffee firm Starbucks.
Technically, December gold futures prices hit a fresh six-month high overnight as the bulls are in firm near-term technical command.
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Wall, with an Old World name seemingly ripped straight from the series, runs The Rock Paper Scissors group, the production firm that creates the Emmy-winning opening credits to the hit HBO television show.
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