Compensation--usually Lehman's biggest expense--was 49.5% of revenues and holding steady with prior quarters.
The jobs-to-applicants ratio remained steady with 108 jobs available for every 100 applicants.
While gold may be steady with a firmer bias next week, other precious metals will likely be anchored in the short term.
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Although sales of Intersil's wider portfolio of wireless chips were down 8.6% for the quarter, sales of wireless networking chips held steady with the previous quarter.
Tethered to a large helium-filled balloon, the 23-pound Sword, as it's known, was able to climb up and down the long cable while workers kept the balloon steady with guide ropes.
And I knew that I wanted a President with a steady character, with deep compassion and strong convictions.
With this, the merest of training, since that time I have had steady work with total unemployment of less than one month, not too bad a record in Michigan.
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Karen Siff Exkorn said her son Jake, who was diagnosed with a "classic case" of autism at 2 years old, made slow but steady progress with a combination of 40 hours a week of behavioral treatment, as well as speech and occupational therapy.
Passive investing offers the already-rich a steady return with less risk and, ultimately, lower costs.
Wilpon and his partners earned steady returns with Madoff for more than two decades.
After all, the Bundesbank and America's Federal Reserve have a steady dialogue with their governments.
At least one carmaker chief executive kept up steady communication with Jerry, seeking his advice and counsel.
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For most moneymen, steady dialogue with firms, rather than shareholder militancy, still seems the best way forward.
More likely is a slow steady fall with bumps along the way as favorable or unfavorable events materialize.
The decline in sales has been slow but steady, with national beer sales falling between one or two percent each year.
While the fall was led by sugar and rice prices, most other commodities remained steady, with meat still flirting with record highs.
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To be sure, many economists say demand in Toronto will stay steady, with some saying immigration trends will continue to underpin the market.
"Behind the images of chaos that terrorists create for the cameras, we are making steady gains with a clear objective in view, " he said.
Big and dark and looking slightly weary, his white tusks flashing in the sun, the elephant walked towards our table with a steady gait, moving with a dogged, fatigued determination.
That trend is good news for people like me, who are committed to freelance careers, but bad news for those who are looking for steady jobs with benefits.
By fall, Rove was in steady contact with operatives in key states, asking veterans whom to call, whom to meet, how to make approaches and what they were hearing.
"He's a steady guy with a good pedigree, and I think he can get a lot of runs for us, " selector Bryan Jones said of the county's new professional.
At the same time, she sees a need to create new jobs at home, believing that there would not be the same incentive to work abroad if steady work with good pay was available within Indonesia.
First, to qualify you typically need 2 years of steady employment with a stable or increasing income, a minimum credit score of 620 with no more than 2 30-day late payments over the last 2 years, no bankruptcies in the last 2 years, no foreclosures in the last 3 years, and a mortgage payment no more than about 30% of your gross pre-tax income.
With continued steady execution of our strategy coupled with exciting product offerings for the holiday season, we believe we are well positioned to achieve our goals for 2012.
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Penny with steady prices would have customer crowds flocking to its stores, as is the case with Apple.
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This, paired with steady EPS growth in the long term due to their ability to reduce reimbursements on their contracts with retail pharmacies, means both earnings and the multiple will expand and the stock price should rise.
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Jankovic won with steady play from the baseline, while the big-swinging Muguruza committed 29 unforced errors.
Misery isn't romanticized, it's a civic emergency, and management, once steady, overreacts with dramatic moves.
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