Almost all firms have seen costs go up.
Almost all firms with over 200 employees offer health coverage.
At almost all firms, these happen on Monday mornings and include only partners.
Although it is open to almost all firms, the policy was designed for those which find it hard to raise external finance because investors see them as risky.
The unspoken goal of almost all firms is quickly to offload the remaining dodgy assets on their balance-sheets, thus releasing capital, to offset the higher overall capital standards being imposed on them.
But in almost all firms without a controlling shareholder, most votes were cast for having a say on pay every year.This has not stopped bosses from lobbying for weaker rules.
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One example of this was Firm C's program that provided loans and training to individuals looking to open accredited pharmacies in the urban slums of some of Africa's largest cities. Almost all firms conducted specialized research to address diseases that exclusively or disproportionately affect developing nations.
Since 1973, the Air Travel Organiser's Licence (Atol) has protected people booking packaged holidays in the event that the firm goes bust; almost all the big travel firms operating in the UK are part of the scheme.
As Sir Richard Sykes, former chairman of GSK, points out, almost all the big firms are caught in the same bind of stalled productivity, patent expiries and pricing pressure.
