what does rigid mean in the business since?
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Rigid, as in inflexible, means that the business is slow to adapt to changing circumstances.  This may be because their structure is unwieldy, or they have inflexible officers, or whatever.  Sometimes it's as simple as having too many people in their governing body.  They will lose their market share, because the market (both products and customers) changes rapidly.  There are some areas where the market changes every week, such as high tech hardware.
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Latin.\n\nBuyer Be aware, its a marketing and business philosophy typical of the 50 and 60's where the buyer had to take te product "as is" and check all before he buyed, he had no right to reclamation whatsoever, the enterprise philosophy and strategy was to produce a lot... not to attract customers and care about their needs.\n\nIn the other hands, today the philosophy has changed, customer is more informed and enterprises fight for positioning (the place a product occupies in a customer`s mind) so philosophy has also changed, today caveat emptor has transformed into "Caveat venditor" (may the seller be aware, take care of himself) and/or "Cavea Emptorum" (Take care of the customer, be aware of the buyer)
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It means the model or base assumption under which the business (or any other continuing enterprise) operates.  It can be unconsciously adopted, that is, not recognized by those founding or running the business.  \n\nThe phrase is also used in fields other than business.
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I'm pretty fluent in "Bushism" so resposibilitude would mean responsibility, meaning in the corporate world- make sure to cover your a$$ so you don't get caught.
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It means "Job Contract".
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It is easier to hit a stationary target than a moving one.\nAn object at rest is stationary; it is not moving.\nPeople rarely write letters anymore, so stationery stores are going out of business.
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I am not sure but I know that this made possible through the Necessary and Proper Clause or the ELastic Clause.  SO maybe it is something similar to the word elastic. Good Luck!
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I can confirm that in the US, "worked off" is the preferred term, because the backlog can be removed, or taken -off- a production schedule (that's SKe-jool here, or SHe-jool in the UK ;) ).
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Yes.  Some companies still do make it and it is mostly used in the furniture business.
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Explain the business.
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Do you mean "set in stone"?  When you say something is "set in stone" then you've gotten so far that the decision cannot be changed.  For instance:  "Joe's promotion isn't set in stone."  It means that Joe doesn't have the new position locked yet - someone else could still come in and take it.
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The only correct answer to this question:\n\n\nBy getting out of its way. (Not passing restrictive Laws)\n\nAnd by reducing taxes on business
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Having no motion to some degree\nBeing at rest in some manner\nSorta stationary\netc
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It means to stick to something. ie: when driving adhere to the speed limit.
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I believe it means:\n\nAutomatic\nTeller\nMachine
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Falling prices.\n\nYou just have to be careful not to get hit by falling merchandise though.
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Someone (like a consultant) who specializes in creating solutions for corporate problems. This was probably first used in an IT connotation.