Most have become mouthpieces for company management, refusing to make statements based on independent research for fear of offending the company and losing future investment-banking business.
However, news of that lower margin was one of the key reasons for the share price fall as it led investors to fear it would take even longer for the company to become profitable.
An engineer for a major U.S. automaker, speaking only on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job, said he has watched for years as his company failed to implement more advanced safety features in Brazil, simply because the law did not require them.
But there is good reason to fear the company's insatiable appetite for our personal data in today's Web 3.0 world.
Lonmin said the latest strike, and workers staying away out of fear for their safety, has forced the company stop all but essential mine maintenance.
Contrast this with traditional companies that advise employees against talking company business even in company building elevators, for fear of non-NDAed visitors overhearing.
So the company dug in its heels for fear of also losing the very Christian groups at whose behest it acted in the first place.
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Though it is hot at every drug company, most say little about it for fear theyll tip their hands.
They say they're not speaking to company executives they are legally entitled to for fear of coming under fire.
The MGM movie has been, over the decades, almost too successful: Few producers wanted to return to Oz for fear of competing with Judy Garland, Frank Morgan and company.
While we certainly won't go into the pros and cons of each company's products here (mainly for fear of getting flamed), we must say that the iDon't site features little compelling content other than a few cheesy wallpaper downloads and some links to anti-iPod sites, and mostly comes across as sour grapes from the runner-up in an industry being dominated by a single player.
If Netflix simply started offering by-mail rentals of games, that probably would have been something for Gamefly to really fear, but the split of the company between streaming and by-mail makes it a lot less formidable, as now customers have to use a new, separate service for mail rentals, and hell, they might as well sign up for the battle-tested Gamefly at that point, right?
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Iberia may fear that the British holding company, which will have full responsibility for the pensions, may not deal with the pension problem successfully.
"They cut the electricity for two hours every morning, and of course it affects work a lot, because the whole company runs on computers, " said the CEO of a Damascus-based media company, speaking to CNN on condition of anonymity for fear of his life.
The grab by Argentina for control its national oil company, YPF, should throw the fear of God into investors round the globe about the way revenue-hungry politicians are trying to cash in on the global boom in natural resources like oil, gold, copper, iron ore.
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Even at that young age I can remember the feeling of fear that came over me when I thought about my dad going to work for a company named after a fruit.
Boris Federov, an investor and a former minister of finance, criticized the company's leadership, which reacted so fiercely he began to fear for his life, according to an account by Marshall Goldman, an economist and Russia scholar at Harvard.
No company wants to release Doodad 3 when its chief rival is launching Thingamabob 4, for fear of apparently lagging behind.
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Lai, now 50, sold his remaining 27% stake in Giordano in 1994 for fear that a derogatory comment he made in print about then-premier Li Peng would hurt the company in China and its proposed listing in Hong Kong (it did).
The realization that she was underselling herself came home to Kinney, 38, in a previous job, when her business partner who was her husband at the time left the company, and she didn't want her customers to know for months, for fear they'd think she couldn't handle things herself.
The affidavits by the two witnesses, who did not want to be identified in the court documents filed Monday for fear of retaliatory "violence, " paint a menacing portrait of Prince, who recently resigned from his company.
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