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Limited Liability Partnership
LIMITED LIABILITY PARTNERSHIP A form of general partnership that provides an individual partner protection against personal liability for certain partnership obligations. The Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is essentially a general partnership in form, with one important difference. Unlike a... Read more |
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Partnership for Peace
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John Deere
John Deere 1804-86, American industrialist, manufacturer of agricultural implements, b. Rutland, Vt. He was one of the pioneers of the steel plow industry. A blacksmith by trade, he established (1837) a shop at Grand Detour, Ill. There he was associated with Leonard Andrus in making (1837) the... Read more |
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Currier and Ives
Currier & Ives American lithographers and print publishers, who produced highly popular hand-colored prints of contemporary scenes and events in American life. Nathaniel Currier, 1813-88, b. Roxbury, Mass., founded the business in New York City in 1835, and in 1857 formed a partnership with... Read more |
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John Lewis Partnership plc
John Lewis Partnership plc 171 Victoria StreetLondon SW1E 5NNUnited KingdomTelephone: (020) 7828 1000Fax: (020) 7592 6301Web site: http://www.john-lewis-partnership.co.uk PartnershipIncorporated: 1929 as John Lewis Partnership Ltd.Employees: 54,000Sales: £4.09 billion ($6... Read more |
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Joint Stock Company
JOINT STOCK COMPANY A joint stock company is a specific form of business organization that is structured like a corporation, but is treated like a partnership in the eyes of the law. Such companies are no longer common in the United States, but are still frequently found in Europe. Like a... Read more |
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Business Structure
Business Structures Sources Small Scale.The corporate structure, which became tremendously popular in the nineteenth century, separates a business from its owners so that it can go on even when owners die or sell their shares. In the eighteenth century, however,... Read more |
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Private sector
Private Sector BIBLIOGRAPHY The private sector is the part of a country’s economy that is not controlled directly by the government; it is a term that combines households and businesses in the economy into a single group. The resources of production owned by the private sector are owned... Read more |
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Syndicate
SYNDICATE An association of individuals formed for the purpose of conducting a particular business; a joint venture. A syndicate is a general term describing any group that is formed to conduct some type of business. For example, a syndicate may be formed by a group of investment bankers who... Read more |
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Sir James Frazer Stirling
Sir James Frazer Stirling 1926-92, British architect, b. Glasgow, grad. Univ. of Liverpool school of architecture (1950). Settling in London, Stirling worked in partnership (1956-63) with James Gowan, and became known for straightforward and functional modernist public buildings executed mainly in... Read more |
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