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Many firms experimenting with drone technology have had difficulty increasing the range of the craft, which can be restricted by the size and weight of the battery.
That collapse highlights the risk to law firms experimenting with other payment arrangements: If lawyers set too low a price, they lose money.
Even Intel, the high-tech firm, has experimented with "quiet time," in which, for four consecutive hours every week, no e-mails or phone calls are allowed.
It didn't help matters that the firm also experimented with extraordinarily tortured exhibition pieces, like a gigantic vase crawling with naked maidens, branches, shells, coral branches and fish.
In recent years firms have experimented with outsourcing legal work to India and other low-cost countries, but that strategy has not been very successful, Burbank says, adding that companies are turning to "in-sourcing"–or building up their own in-house legal departments to do work that had been done by expensive outside firms.
The firm is experimenting with store refurbishment and has launched a new advertising campaign featuring Twiggy, a 56-year-old model.
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Fidelity Investments, the giant mutual fund manager, and the Charles Schwab Corporation, the biggest online brokerage firm, are experimenting with baskets of stocks they can sell to investors who want an alternative to owning mutual funds or individual stocks in traditional brokerage accounts.
