Sentences with phrase «supplied by private firm»

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(Last night, office supplies retailer Staples (spls) said it was being bought by private equity firm Sycamore Partners, a year after its own mega deal to buy smaller rival Office Depot failed to win over regulators.)

Because it serves to remind us that even today the «money» that commercial banks and other private - market financial firms produce is in an important respect not the real McCoy at all, but ersatz (if often more convenient) stuff that serves in place of it, and does so only because the firms that supply it, not only make it very convenient to use (e.g., by swiping a debit card), but at the same time offer its users something akin to money - back (which is to say, a «money proper» - back) guarantees.

Today the same terminology might be used to distinguish the irredeemable currency supplied directly by the Fed from the redeemable exchange media created by commercial banks and other private financial firms.

But when I think about other ubiquitous fast food outlets and their brewed coffee, I think about Folger's being served at Wendy's, about Dunkin Donuts being owned by three creepy private equity firms (providing little or no information on where their coffee comes from), and another of the «big four» corporate roasters, Sara Lee «s Douwe Egberts division, supplying Burger King's coffee.

The new legislation stipulates that all services must be offered to private firms unless GPs are sure they can only be provided by the current supplier.

Plasma Resources UK, which provides blood supplies to the NHS, has been sold to Bain Capital, a private equity firm set up by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Now GPs will be allowed to retain NHS services, but only if they are sure they can only be provided by the current supplier — basically if no private firm applies.

The center has only two full - time employees and one part - time; until recently the rest of the center's workforce was supplied by Sciences International (SI), a private consulting firm that has been funded by more than 40 chemical industry clients.

Subtitle H: Energy and Efficiency Centers and Research -(Sec. 171) Requires the Secretary to implement a program to establish Energy Innovation Hubs by: (1) leveraging the expertise and resources of the university and private research communities, industry, venture capital, national laboratories, and other participants in energy innovation to support cross-disciplinary research and development in areas not being served by the private sector in order to develop and transfer innovative clean energy technologies into the marketplace; (2) expanding the knowledge base and human capital necessary to transition to a low - carbon economy; and (3) promoting regional economic development by cultivating clusters of clean energy technology firms, private research organizations, suppliers, and other complementary groups and businesses.

Food Service Specialists are often employed by the Army, and also by private firms, and are responsible for planning menus, ordering supplies, making sure hygiene standards are respected, and coordinating the cooking personnel.