The management category of challenges is the most frequently mentioned by the companies sampled.
The figures have been skewed because the 45 gas storage companies sampled for the weekly report have been more active in tapping and refilling storage than others that were not included in the survey, an Energy Department statistician, Roy Kass, said.
A third of the 3,700 listed companies sampled in a recent study by Credit Suisse paid more in interest than they earned.
As the exhibit "The Doing-Saying Gap" shows, there was no overlap at all in the telecom company sample between customers with high referral values and those with high lifetime values.
The company sample was, therefore, derived based on the latest industry rankings of official statistical data, which use annual sales as a criterion.
The objective of the analysis presented in this report was therefore to measure the prevalence of silicosis in a representative multi-company sample of working black gold miners, and to compare the prevalence with that found in previous studies.
In a recent analysis of a larger insurance company sample from the United States, impairments of quality of life due to falls and fall risk were described as being comparable in quantity to most other chronic diseases present [ 14].
Quants generally have no interest in visiting a company, sampling its products or meeting its management.
Eight single-well immunofluorescent microscopy slides, on which oocysts were detected by water company sampling of the distribution system, were sent to the UK Cryptosporidium Reference Unit, Swansea, for typing.
Twenty-three percent of physicians decline drug samples already, and a thoughtful account from a family practice group in Oregon of how they disentangled from drug company samples suggests it is doable and relatively pain-free.
