When there's a thin line between business and personal, the courts have to step in.
All just as Dickensian, it seems, as in the days before brewers were limited to owning 2,000 pubs apiece.This criticism of pubcos comes at a time when 39 public houses a week are closing (see chart), as recession and cut-price beer in supermarkets thin their business.
Eventually the thin server business will end up being a part of the operating firmware of most electronic devices, inside Windows, on the network.
Applied Materials, the semiconductor manufacturer, entered the thin-film business in a big way with SunFab, an end-to-end, turnkey thin-film fabrication line that makes the process of getting a thin-film plant up and running faster and easier.
Operators of warehouse stores have been pushing to add discount gas stations like the one here because they bolster revenue and profit in this thin-margin business.
The technology has "matured, by and large, around delivering the Microsoft desktop experience remotely," said Tad Bodeman, the global director of Hewlett-Packard's thin-client business.
One longtime player in the thin-client business, Wyse, manufactures an array of slim hardware, including laptops, that handle much the same work.
Not necessarily so, say the authors: countercyclical budgetary policy can be aimed at long-term growth, and the case is stronger in Europe than in America.If capital markets are well developed, they argue, sound companies can borrow to tide them over in recessions; if those markets are thin, good businesses will sink.
Yet today -- as the ranks of dot-com companies continue to thin and businesses pare their payrolls and put off costly projects -- many of these workers are finding that the businesses that brought them to this country now consider them expendable.
Pension fund management became a thin-margined business.
In a thin-margin business (pretax margin is 7.5%), these advantages add up for WellPoint.
