An LLC's profits can be taxed as a corporate entity (a C corporation) or as a "pass-through" entity (an S corporation), meaning that the company avoids paying taxes on both corporate profits and the owners' personal income.
They are also exempt from the S.E.C.'s rules on corporate disclosure, meaning that corporations can give them sensitive information without having to share it with other market analysts.
Corporations like to claim they're people -- "corporate personhood," meaning the constitution gives them the same rights it grants real people.
International tax reform remains subject to lobbying by powerful corporate interests, meaning it is proceeding at a glacial pace.
"IoD members tell us that they are able to increase wages because of improved corporate performance, meaning these wage increases are sustainable".
The ten-year serves as the benchmark for corporate loans, meaning that companies will be less willing to tap the capital markets to expand their activities.
The university has become a bastion of corporate bureaucracy, meaning that things like mission statements, assessment and "compliant" documents have become more important than inspired teaching, cutting-edge research and groundbreaking publication.
Mr. Plouffe said the committee was getting "a lot more from the Washington corporate community" -- meaning lobbyists -- as well as an increase in gifts from wealthy Democrats who in the past gave chiefly to presidential and Senate candidates.
And more power couples with modest economic backgrounds are sailing up the corporate ladder together, meaning that sometimes both spouses could use a little enhancement of their social graces.
In addition to whatever future login methods Google aims to support, the company notes that the new system will be a "better experience" for SAML SSO users, meaning corporate users or students, who sign in with a different identity provider than Google, and will "reduce confusion" among people who have multiple Google accounts.
