At the same time, the two foreign-led private-equity groups are busy sweet-talking Netcom, apparently offering the firm up to 50% of whatever assets they end up with more or less for nothing, thus diluting their own interests to minority status.
It was there the Riady family and the Stephens firm joined up to acquire a bank.
Many question whether a mainstream fund-rating firm is up to the task, and point out that, if retail investors are led to rely on faulty measures, they may find themselves in trouble.
"We've lost work to larger firms and like any small business, small architectural firms need a boost these days, " says Mr. Davidson, whose 15-year-old firm receives up to 70 federal contracts every year, mostly for renovations to U.S. Postal Service buildings.
There was little doubt but that an agreement to sell or shore up the firm had to be reached over the weekend.
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So far, about 4, 000 flights have been canceled through the weekend, but that number is expected to grow as airlines firm up their plans, according to FlightAware.com, a website that tracks flights.
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Generators can then get the capacity needed to firm up bids, and power market operators would then be able to confirm availability which impacts reliability.
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Last year a major U.S. biotech firm invited him up to learn more about his patents.
It could also help firm up GOP opposition to more expansive legislation including background checks.
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The firm claims that up to 450 jobs could be created in transforming Canting Basin into a "spectacular floating community" with "shops, offices, houses, restaurants, a marina and a roof-top concert arena".
The firm will eliminate up to 10, 000 jobs.
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Heather Hancock, the official responsible, says the risk is low because the agency will collect the rent (which will be used for redevelopment) and it will sell the property as soon as a private firm has signed up to redevelop it.
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Mann introduced Pavlo to Mark Benveniste, president of Manatee Capital, an Atlanta firm set up in 1994 to factor, or collect, debts, for caller-paid phone services, including Mann's Denmark Dial.
Since the financial crisis Citigroup has managed to firm up its balance sheet and fence off most of the toxic assets that brought the bank to its knees.
Add to that strategy lots of acquisitions to firm up their base (they bought a similar upstate New York company two days ago) and to expand their offerings.
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Aside from these feeling states, I remember that my desk faced my bookcase and that Getting to Yes sat there until the day I packed my books up to take to another firm, where it would sit unread for even more years.
The job ad acknowledges Valve's debt to the personal computer but said the firm was trying to speed up the pace of innovation by "jumping in" itself.
He proved that he had run a firm that serves up banner ads to other websites before DoubleClick, the leading online advertising firm, filed for a patent claiming rights to the same technology.
They had pushed the bank to raise capital levels and liquidity, and the firm met those conditions even up to its collapse.
Employees at a start-up help to shape the firm as it grows up.
Unfortunately, the good data is not enough to firm up Bayer's limping drug division.
Social media can be a low-cost way for a small firm to staff up quickly.
C. amid accusations that his firm acted fraudulently leading up to and during the 2008 financial crisis.
Given such attitudes, it's not surprising that most efforts to firm up this indistinct heritage have em-phasized Portuguese characteristics.
Kyoto took five years to hammer out and, unlike now, did not involve developing countries signing up to firm responsibilities.
Jersey's Treasury Minister has put pressure on telecoms firm JT to speed up installation of superfast broadband in the island.
"My sense is that it is going to firm up his support in the lesbian and gay community, " Rimmerman said.
SGS, an inspection firm, and Helveta, a software firm, to set up a system to track all of Liberia's timber.
Earlier this year Congress turned down a number of reforms that would have opened up the firm to fresh private investment.
Setting up a firm to use social media is just the start.
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