But in contrast with the trend in recent months, it was manufacturing firms rather than those in the service sector who led the increase in employment.
The information problem comes from the fact that we forsake the social processes that tell us whether we are choosing wisely or not when we make these tasks the responsibility of the government rather than the responsibility of the firms in question.
On the other hand, rules put in place that would slow the death of fraudulent or insolvent firms will mean more, rather than less, in the way of investors will be ensnared by false market signals.
The fear is that rather than give the firms a breathing space in which they could complete the restructuring of their operations and extract further concessions from the union, Chapter 11 would set off a downward spiral.
A.s consider careers in industries like technology and clean energy, where companies tend to hire one or two students at a time, rather than in large numbers like at finance and consulting firms, traditional B-school employers.
That should spur banks to lend and firms to invest, rather than parking cash in government bonds.
Congress is also considering taxing the carried interest of partners in private-equity firms as income rather than capital gains, which are taxed at a lower rate.
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Such agreements allow central banks to swap currencies and can be used by firms to settle trade in local currencies rather than in US dollars, as happens now, since China's currency is not fully convertible to other currencies.
Such agreements not only allow central banks to swap currencies, but can also be used by firms to settle trade in local currencies rather than in US dollars, as happens now, since China's currency is not fully convertible to other currencies.
It favours additional regulation (which is no less harmful for coming, in the first instance, at firms', rather than governments', behest).
In Germany policymakers have encouraged firms to cut hours rather than jobs.
Part-time work became increasingly common: Germany's Kurzarbeit programme, in which firms reacted to recession by cutting hours rather than employees, is just the latest example of this approach.
Increases in compensation may be offset by higher labor productivity or absorbed at least for a time by a narrowing of firms' profit margins rather than passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices.
New companies in Japan often rely on big firms for backing, rather than beginning as wholly independent start-ups.
Mr. Liang traded stocks of smaller companies developing new drugs, rather than major corporations, to take advantage of the relatively larger swings in these firms' stocks, the SEC said.
No one would doubt anymore that some executives and audit firms had been self-serving and active, rather than passive, actors in this economic tragedy.
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Vupen is just one of a number of companies that have created controversy in the security community by profiting from zero-day exploits rather than working with software firms to fix the hackable vulnerabilities they use.
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By and large, businesses welcomed this tidying up, even though they will pay more tax during a four-year transition to a new system of payment, under which big firms will pay tax quarterly on a current-year basis, rather than in arrears as now.
It favours established businesses rather than new ones, even though it is start-up firms that are driving job growth in the rest of America.
Maersk's move to raise funds through a bond issue in September rather than through bank financing, which is still eye-wateringly expensive for shipping firms, is probably another sign of its resilience.
Because firms that pay dividends tend to see more value in shipping cash to shareholders rather than reinvesting profits, high-dividend stocks tend to perform best when value stocks do.
In Germany, the government uses wage subsidies to encourage firms to hoard workers during recessions rather than shedding them.
This could result in foreign firms revealing more information, though it would amount to enforcement of existing rules rather than an expansion of disclosure requirements.
For example, research has shown that, even in the US, many firms would prefer to reduce wage costs by eliminating some staff rather than affect morale and productivity by introducing across-the-board wage cuts.
Unlike President Eisenhower's golfing partners, the people President Clinton will play golf with in Martha's Vineyard may be rich from movie deals or from Washington law firms rather than rich from CEO salaries, but they're still rich.
Moreover, much of the growth in online trading seems to result from investors doing more trades and keeping less of their money in the bank, rather than from e-brokers gaining clients at the expense of full-service firms.
Thanks to the diligent and widespread use by many companies of hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks, and because the earnings of many firms are reported on individual, rather than corporate returns, the U.S. raises very little tax revenue from corporations.
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Rather than use machines that might be sold to their competitors, some bigger firms prefer to rely on equipment from in-house workshops.
In management , firms might spend less time on the 20th Century preoccupation with improving efficiency rather than on the 21st Century challenge of generating customer delight through continuous innovation.
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