As clay is not so firm underfoot as hard courts, twisting and turning is harder.
So firm, in fact, that a correction next week could be a time to buy, writes MoneyShow.com senior editor Tom Aspray .
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The fairways were so firm that tee shots were running some 50 yards after they landed, and the greens were firm enough that balls ran out an extra two feet around the hole.
So the firm has accepted less than 50 for its upcoming batch of startups.
Even so, firm recognition that Mr Putin is going in the wrong direction is much better than meek acquiescence.
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So some firm political leadership from Mr Cardoso ought to ensure that, this time, most of his measures pass.
So any firm that sells to the federal government is left in limbo.
So the firm filed a writ of mandamus in federal court to force the FCC to respond to its complaint.
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So the firm struck a deal with Petters Group in 2003 to license Polaroid's name beyond the hopelessly outdated instant camera.
So whichever firm can build a road without charging an arm and a leg for Brazilians via tolls will win the contract.
So a firm called AgeCheck, under the guise of certifying that the consumer is an adult, sells a subscription that covers dozens of them.
Instead, the worm opens it from within, so a firm may never notice that somebody has stolen its latest product design or customer list.
However, it seems to underline the importance of doing such planning, so a firm holds onto its revenues and value and avoid bankruptcy if the entrepreneur passes away.
So his firm, SoftWide, devised a kiosk-based system that can store thousands of pieces of software on a hard disk, burning a disk only when a customer wants to buy a particular title.
Some of these have a longer lead time relative to economic activity than others, so the firm publishes both a longer leading index, which signals changes in activity about a year in advance, and a shorter leading index, which looks six months ahead.
There were two other men in the depot also waiting for a taxi so the firm's owner, John Sherry, said he would take all three at once but as he drove along Annadale Embankment, one of the men "pointed a gun at his head" and hijacked the taxi, the court was told.
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So far the firm has relied entirely on word-of-mouth promotion by its fervent adherents to attract users.
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So if one firm gets in trouble with, you know, pick your bank.
Even so, the firm has yet to take advantage of groupware that would allow salesmen to devise fancy new financial products.
First and foremost, they did so by remaining firm in their resolve.
So, a firm decision probably means offending someone and losing some votes.
Wages will still count, of course, but so will the firm's performance.
If no buyer for Lehman can be found, the other solution would be stabilizing the firm so it can be unwound without disrupting the capital markets.
The larger fund is partly so that the firm can make selective larger investments when an opportunity arises, says Bijan Sabet, partner at Spark.
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After receiving submissions from more than a thousand people in 50 different countries, Goldcorp achieved the success that had so eluded the firm previously.
It's snazzy stuff for a venerable, white-shoe firm so taciturn that it omits the Goldman name on its headquarters tower a few blocks south of Wall Street.
Rich had seemed to her such a tower of efficiency and competence, so vigorous and firm a presence that she had always believed, quite unreasonably, that he would survive her.
So gold mining firm Gold Corp opened up a set of its geological data to the net and offered a half-million dollar prize fund to anyone who could "find gold".
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