Loyal employees are the backbone of any solid corporation.
There appears to be less enthusiasm than Highfield implies and, despite his assertion that the NMA has "a solid front", the corporation is concerned that some publishers have not signed up to his plan.
He has solid financial support from corporations and groups based in South Jersey, but being from the politically weaker end of the state, and from the state's poorest city, erodes his base of support.
DB: The future lies not with grand visionary mega-concepts of the Von Braun era but the solid consolidation of private corporations wresting it away from government.
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But Mr. Bryan, whose tenure of 25 years as chief executive is one of the longest at a major American corporation, said today that the recent performance of the Sara Lee Corporation was solid and that his departure was part of a succession plan put in place three years ago.
But on the whole, the major corporations in America appear to be posting solid earnings.
"Our fourth quarter, like the entire year, was a solid one for the corporation," said Vance D. Coffman, the chief executive.
STEC, based in Santa Ana, Calif., makes solid-state drives for corporations and other large enterprises, a market that Seagate executives have said the company plans to enter this year.
An old dumping ground for another chemical corporation's solid waste lay a little to the north, and porous New Jersey sand underlay it all, a negligible barrier between the chemicals and the community's drinking water.
