21. Accordingly, the firm has done pro bono work in disaster relief in Armenia, donated time to rebuilding efforts in Compton and its partners serve on numerous boards. 22. Accounting firms routinely shred documents and the higher volume of Enron documents destroyed last fall was simply catching up with what the firm normally did under its existing policies. 23. Alcatel even reports its financial result every quarter, instead of once a year as other French firms do. 24. All his firm did, he said, was execute trades ordered by International Marketing Strategies, manager of the investment partnership the investors had joined. 25. But firms are doing it cautiously, concerned that workers might not understand the risks involved. 26. But he said a conflict could develop if Schwab pushed its own funds over others, which is what full-service brokerage firms often do. 27. But retail securities firms can do such IPOs because of their large sales forces. 28. But that sidesteps the issue of whether security firms were doing their job. 29. But the Communicator code giveaway may be the first time a commercial software firm has done this with one of its core products. 30. But the firm never did so. |