For much of the time, the company of three dozen people lived in several small farm huts.

The entire dance world struggles for money, and many companies often live on the edge.

Failing firms As big names tumble, can a company live forever?

Under Thatcherism, companies live or die in the marketplace according to their own wit and resources.

Record companies live or die on the quality of the talent they attract.

All companies live together in the same barracks area.

"It's so low-class to have the food prepared on the same floor where the family and company live."

And the reduced company that's playing together will no longer be living together.

Yet even the specialized companies - like their customers - are living closer to the edge than ever before.

This is the law of the land, and companies should live under it.