The major was Lyman Hapgood, a native New Englander with a reputation for discretion and dependability.
Feeling good about doing business with Amazon.com, with its reputation for good customers service and dependability, may make consumers feel better about paying 20 cents more on a book than from another online bookseller who may have a lower price.
For years after the break-up of the Soviet Union, it functioned much as before, resting on its huge, built-in client base and a reputation for dependability.
Tesla needed an uninterrupted flow of cars to boost its thin cash reserves and shaky reputation for dependability, but Donoughe's verdict was gloomy: "If we can get eighty cars to customers this month, it would be a home run, but we're looking more at sixty-five, seventy".
Besides having a good reputation for dependability, Steve Jobs Steve Jobs ' firm and its products enjoy a countercultural status the anti- Bill Gates Bill Gates and the negative- Microsoft, if you will.
Perversely, cars with reputations for dependability and fuel efficiency — as well as those with generous 10-year warranties — are not selling either, because fewer are available.
She has always represented a certain strength and dependability in a music world built on flimsy reputations.
Instead, Nielsen's 4... e6 inaugurated the Semi-Slav Variation, which has gotten a reputation for dependability in recent years because of its skillful support by Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand.
His sure hands earned him a reputation for dependability on the field.
But after another dreadful performance, in the Mets' 11-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday at Citi Field, Niese will have to regain his reputation for dependability.
