LOS ANGELES — Amar'e Stoudemire switched time zones, teams and residencies in revitalizing the Knicks and entertaining hopes of eventually bypassing the Lakers, a firm obstacle throughout his career.
Accountancy firms circumnavigated this obstacle by forging alliances with law firms rather than merging with them.
Powerful interests, especially state firms, remain an obstacle.
GREAT news for Luddite greens; a big blow to the biotech seed firms; one more obstacle to transatlantic trade co-operation.
In the 1990s, the boatloads of money Miuccia Prada made from her hyper-hip designer bags were able to cover any financial obstacle her firm faced.
First, the Uppsala model is rooted in the resource-based theory (Anderson & Kheam 1996), which views the lack of knowledge about foreign markets (i.e., market uncertainty) as the major obstacle of firms' internationalization (Forsgren 2002).
Executives with Western firms say the biggest obstacle to deals with Russia is not the sanctions themselves but the prospect that more could be imposed and the zeal with which existing sanctions are enforced.
According to Alibaba the proportion of Ali-loan's lending that goes bad is a trifling 0.35%, which suggests that the service could be expanded fast.The firm faces several obstacles.
He also warned he could have to "force action" by changing the law and that, if there were "technical obstacles", firms should use their "greatest brains" to overcome them.
"Each plan being discussed today is deficient and fails to convincingly demonstrate how, in failure, any one of these firms could overcome obstacles to entering bankruptcy without precipitating a financial crisis," Thomas Hoenig, FDIC vice chairman, said in a statement.
