It weighed in, gently, on the bargaining between workers and firms, tilting the balance toward the group with less economic power — in sharp contrast to the United States, where the rules of the game have shifted power away from labor and toward capital, especially during the past three decades.
Second, an increase in the number of firms tilts the relative composition of each firms' demand towards non-local consumers and enhances the effects of search costs on deterring the initiation and extensiveness of any search activity.
Firms often tilt the market to give one side a particularly sweet deal: nightclubs let women in free to justify charging men a hefty fee, telephone directories are given away to create a readership which advertisers pay to access.
I try everything: more cushions, fewer cushions, two small cushions under my knees, a firmer cushion tilted under a softer cushion, a cushion on my lap to rest my hands on.
Media firms can also tilt the balance by discovering more about their customers than can be gleaned through auctions.
This year, Pompliano opened a North Carolina venture capital firm, Full Tilt Capital.
Present trends suggest many firms may need to tilt toward aggregation or at least to be more judicious in their reliance on arbitrage.
At their Lilliputian brokerage firm, they are tilting at the giants of high-frequency trading and warning — loudly — of the dangers they pose.
If an artist were to sketch her, she'd be all long lines topped by a firm jaw and tilted blue eyes.
If Democrats rule, one can expect these cuts to come in large part at the expense of defense firms, which, after all, now tilt to the Republicans.
