Weill, who built the company in a series of acquisitions starting in the late 1980s, when he rescued a little Baltimore commercial credit firm, said the financial conglomerate model now under fire at Citi and elsewhere is a solid model and worth fighting for.
"Despite continued hurdles, we have confidence in our strong liquidity, good capital position and solid business model, " Smith said Monday.
This can be attributed to a solid business model and high growth.
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So, he spent two years coming up with a mechanism that allows for Internet-to-offline access, while also focusing intensely on developing a solid business model.
It has a solid revenue model and a growing customer base.
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In addition to working and raising a family, Pallavi Dean lectures at the American University at Sharjah, where she hopes she presents the young women with a solid role model of combining the profession with family.
Connors, who has invested in companies such as search engine Blekko and cloud security startup CloudPassage, is particularly interested in helping companies move from an early product or idea to a solid business model and strategy.
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The company also announced solid progress on its Model S, a sedan they expect to be ready for delivery in mid-2012.
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Here are a handful that have the fundamentals and financials to get solid scores from my model, and also seem to possess the qualitative characteristics Buffett looks for.
Trying to open 3-0 for the second straight year, the Mets wore caps with orange bills for the first time in a regular-season game, rather than their usual model in solid royal blue.
Aside from simply feeling more solid that the cheaper model, the SX500 also offers up features like Zoom Framing Assist, which can be accessed via a devoted button on the front of the camera, letting you zoom out to help find your shooting subject -- a function it performs quite quickly.
The base model Edge holds 64GB of content in a speedy solid state drive (128GB in the Pro model, upgradeable to 256GB).
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The New York Times' David Pogue said the new iPad isn't a revelation, just a solid revamp of the current model.
More hard-boiled analysts want solid evidence of a sustainable business model that can be defended from competition, and that the manifold costs of acquiring and keeping the customers is really affordable.
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Getting to that stage might mean combining self-assembly methods with lithography, or doing away with the head that reads the data-packed disk and instead creating a self-assembling solid-state system on the model of Flash memory storage used today.
As with the predecessor model in addition to the standard solid roof a glass roof and a cabrio version are available.
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The first step in choosing a crowdfunding platform is to ensure that you have a solid idea that will appeal to the crowdfunding model.
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Dr Magiorkinis, who did the work in collaboration with the University of Athens and Imperial College London, said the model had helped build a "solid argument" to improve early diagnosis and antiviral treatment in drug users.
The idea that what appear to be solid patents might be overturned threatens the entire business model of the pharmaceutical industry, which pours hundreds of millions of dollars into inventing each drug in the hopes of profit later.
We got to spend a little bit of time with a prototype ZTE model, and found the hardware to be solid for a hand-built unit.
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Defying all logic, however, the Wikipad feels like a surprisingly solid piece of equipment (regardless of the fact that the prototype model we used was hand-built).
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Of course, it all depends on whether Xiaomi can scale its business model for the unknown territories, and it'll certainly need some solid partners to do so -- much like its collaboration with local retail channels China Unicom, China Telecom and Vancl.
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Ascena disappointed with its holiday sales, but its recent share declines make this solid long-term performer a bargain in the eyes of my Kenneth Fisher-based model.
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On the foot, the first sensation of a Bemer shoe is the solid balance between heel and ball--and this in a ready-to-wear model.
Spain's Dani Sordo took another solid third for Citroen with Norwegian Petter Solberg once again impressing by taking fourth place in his dated 2006 model Citroen Xsara.
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